Search - Artist/Band: Kazumi Watanabe

• Name: Kazumi Watanabe
• Birthday: 10/14/1953
• Birth Place: Tokyo, Japan
• Decades Active: 1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Fusion, Guitar Jazz, Jazz Instrument

Title	Release
Guitar Renaissance, Vol. 4 WA	04/30/2007
Kaihogen WA	02/19/2007
Mo Bop, Vol. 1 [Hybrid SACD]	08/14/2006
Mo Bop, Vol. 2 [Hybrid SACD]	08/14/2006
Guitar Renaissance, Vol. 3: Tsubasa	06/07/2006
Guitar Renaissance, Vol. 2 WA	06/25/2005
Kaleidoscope	12/21/2004
Village in Bubbles	12/21/2004
Kazumi Box WA	02/11/2004
Guitar Renaissance	02/24/2003
Beyond the Infinite WA	11/21/2001
Dear Tokyo WA	05/19/2001
Romanesque WA	10/25/1996
Oyatsu	04/18/1996
Oyatsu, Vol. 2: Ensoku WA	11/22/1995
Talk You All Tight WA	08/19/1995
Pandora	10/12/1992
Ganesia WA	08/01/1990
Kilowatt	1989
The Spice of Life Too	1988
Good Time for Love	1987
Spice of Life WA	1987
Mobo Splash WA	08/1985
To Chi Ka	1984
Mobo Club	1983
Mobo, Vol. 1 WA	1983
Mobo, Vol. 2 WA	1983
Mobo, Vols. 1 & 2 WA	1983
Dogatana	1981
Kylyn	1979
Lonesome Cat WA	12/14/1977
Olive's Step WA	1977
Endless Way	1975
Best Performance WA
Tokyo Joe WA

Kazumi Watanabe has for the past 20 years been one of the top guitarists in fusion, a rock-oriented player whose furious power does not mask a creative imagination. Watanabe studied guitar at Tokyo's Yamaha Music School and he was a recording artist while still a teenager. In 1979, he formed the group Kylyn and, in 1983, he put together the Mobo band. Several of his recordings have been made available by Gramavision and they show that he ranks up with Al DiMeola (when he is electrified) and Scott Henderson among the pacesetters in the idiom. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide