Kazumi Watanabe - Lonesome Cat 1982 - DR 17

Track List

01. Somebody Samebody
02. Mirrors
03. Aqua Beauty
04. Blackstone
05. Moving Nozzle
06. Lonesome Cat

Line-up

Kazumi Watanabe - guitar
George Cables - piano & electric piano
Alex Blake - electric bass
Cecil McBee - bass
Lenny White - drums

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.