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Ginkai (銀界, Ginkai, means Silver World) is a 1970 album released by Hōzan Yamamoto, featuring Western jazz instrumentalists such as bassist Gary Peacock, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi and drummer Hiroshi Murakami. It is an early example of fusion experiments with jazz and Japanese classical music.
Yamamoto saw continued commercial success throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, with his albums regularly appearing within the Top 20 of the Japanese Oricon Charts and being used in advertisements. Musically, those works are considered to be of the AOR and city-pop genres, a mix of various sounds incorporating disco, rhythm and blues, soft rock ...
TBM's records captured a very important, vibrant era in the development of Japanese jazz. Stars like Isao Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, George Kawaguchi, Terumasa Hino and Mari Nakamoto recorded their very first albums with the label. Artists also include Shuko Mizuno's "Jazz Orchestra '73", Toshiyuko Miyama and Masaru Imada.
In 1980, the group went into a hiatus but resumed a year later with their music, breaking a record by being the first act in Japanese music history to sing 4-beat jazz with Japanese composition. In 1984, "I want to be honest" was released and the song became the group's most commercially successful song.
Bow Wow was formed in 1975 by Yoshimi Ueno, a record producer who was looking to create an idol-like band such as The Monkees or the Bay City Rollers. [1] [4] [5] After recruiting vocalist and guitarist Mitsuhiro Saito and drummer Toshihiro Niimi from the band Do T. Doll, whom he had managed before, vocalist and guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto and bassist Kenji Sano were scouted from Yamaha Music ...
Yamamoto directed the Ensemble d'Ame in Tokyo from 1997–2000. [3] Along with Haruyuki Suzuki, Yoshifumi Tanaka, Hiroshi Yokoshima and other Japanese composers, Yamamoto was a founding member of the composer's group "Tempus Novum" in 1990. [1]
LOS ANGELES — Yoshinobu Yamamoto continues to prove his worth in his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers signed the 26-year-old Japanese star pitcher to help the team get back ...
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