''Mermaid Boulevard'' is

Kazumi Watanabe is a Japanese guitarist. Other guitarists such as Luke Takamura and Sugizo have cited him as an influence. Career Watanabe learned guitar at the age of 12 from Sadanori Nakamure at the Yamaha Music School in Tokyo. He released his first album ...

's sixth studio album, released in 1978.

Track listing

Personnel

* Kazumi Watanabe – guitar, guitar synth *

Ernie Watts Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...

– tenor saxophone, flute *

Patrice Rushen Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) is an American jazz pianist and R&B singer. She is also a composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director. Her 1982 single "Forget Me Nots" received a Grammy Awar ...

– electric piano,

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

Jun Fukamachi was a Japanese jazz fusion composer, arranger, and keyboardist. He played with The Brecker Brothers and Steve Gadd and released albums for Polydor Records, Polydor and Toshiba Records, Toshiba in the 1970s. Early life and career At the age of ...

– synthesizer, strings arrangement *

Lee Ritenour Lee Mack Ritenour ( ; born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist who has been active since the late 1960s. Biography Ritenour was born on January 11, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States. At the age of eight he started play ...

– guitar, arrangements * Anthony Jackson – bass guitar *

Harvey Mason Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. Mason, who attended Berklee in the 1960s, received an Honorary Doctorate at Berklee's 2015 Commencement Ceremony for ...

– drums * Steve Forman – percussion * Minako Yoshida – backing vocals

Production

# Executive producer – Kunihiko Murai # Producer – Shunsuke Miyazumi # Engineers – Phil Schier, Norio Yoshizawa # Re–mixing Engineer – Phil Schier # Assistant engineers – Joan Schier, Yasuhiko Terada, Atsushi Saito # Art Direction – Aijiro Wakita # Illustration – Koichi Sato # Photography – Hiroshi Seo

Release history

References

{{Authority control 1978 albums Kazumi Watanabe albums Alfa Records albums Inner City Records albums