Kazumi Watanabe & The To Chi Ka All-Stars
Tokyo Jazz Festival
Tokyo International Forum Hall A
Tokyo, Japan
September 5, 2010
FM Broadcast Recording - Master Tape
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art
Featuring:
Marcus Miller
Omar Hakim
Warren Bernhardt
Mike Mainieri
01 - Liquid Fingers / Cokumo Island 10:30
02 - MC 2:59
03 - Impressions 8:18
04 - Half Blood 7:05
05 - To Chi Ka / Sayonara 14:00
06 - Ensyu Tsubame Gaeshi 6:25
07 - Unicorn 11:01
08 - Manhattan Flu Dance 13:50
Kazumi Watanabe guitar
Marcus Miller bass
Omar Hakim drums
Warren Bernhardt keyboards
Mike Mainieri vibraphone
Japanese Jazz Guitarist Kazumi Watanabe was brought to my attention by my family Doctor during a check up. See I been going to the same Doctor for 25 years and we have a great rapport. We also have a love of a lot of the same bands. He plays stuff like Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Tarkus or Genesis Foxtrot on his office radio. So this great guitar piece was playing and I asked him who it was he said Kazumi Watanabe then turned it up (see why I love the guy each room has a volume knob that goes to 11). I then went looking for bootlegs of Kazumi and this one is the first I found and it sounds fantastic!!!
If you like Jazz-Fusion like the stuff Jeff Beck did around Blow By Blow and Wired...If you like the stuff done by Return To Forever... You should enjoy Kazumi Watanabe. For good measure he brought along A Living Legend In Jazz-Fusion Marcus Miller to play bass. The fabulous Omar Hakim on drums, Warren Bernhardt on keys and Mike Mainieri on vibes round out the band. Too much talent, I am surprised a tape could hold it!! They are called The To Chi Ka All-Stars because they were the main line-up on Kazumi's 1980 break out album To Chi Ka.
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