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Fusion/fresh age keyboard player Keiko Matsui was raised in Tokyo and took her 1st piano lesson at age five. Affected by Stevie Question and Rachmaninov in addition to early fusion experts Maurice Jarre and Chick Corea, Matsui started composing during junior high but analyzed children’s culture in the Japan Women’s …

Kazumi Watanabe has for days gone by twenty years been among the best guitarists in fusion, a rock-oriented participant whose furious power will not cover up a creativity. Watanabe studied electric guitar at Tokyo’s Yamaha Music College and he was a documenting musician while still an adolescent. In 1979, he …

Another prolific session guitarist well respectable simply by musicians but generally unfamiliar to the hearing public, Melvin Ragin aka Wah-Wah Watson continues to be about countless sessions. Created in Detroit circa 1951, Ragin/Watson offers used and/or contributed materials towards the recordings of Michael Jackson, Pharoah Sanders, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, …

A guitarist who was simply useful for many R&B-oriented schedules and occasionally played jazz, Eric Gale had an attractive audio and was best while executing sluggish melodic blues. He was most crucial towards the jazz globe in the first ’70s, when he documented frequently as a sideman for CTI, down …

Like so a great many other Los Angeles studio room music artists, guitarist and composer Larry Carlton was confronted with a choice quite a few years back again: whether to look solo and create a name for himself, or even to continue the less risky, more profitable existence of the …

Paul Jackson is most connected with his profession within Herbie Hancock’s super jazz ensemble, Headhunters. Jackson began playing acoustic guitar for Anthony & the Imperials along with other jazz performers like Bobby Hutcherson and Woody Shaw. He co-founded Headhunters with Hancock and co-wrote “Chameleon.” His recording Dark Octopus was documented …