Kenji Omura, Takao Yamamura, Martin Willweber - Count's Jazz Rock Band

Year : 2005
Label : Bridge Inc.
Genre : Rock, Jazz
Style : Jazz Rock, Blues Rock

This compilation brings together rare live tracks and studio recordings from 1969 to 1971, including original compositions and four cover songs among Steve Marcus (Count's Rock Blues), The Beatles (She's A Woman) or Bacharach/David (This Guy's In Love With You). The Count's Jazz Rock Band is a short-lived instrumental Jazz & Blues Rock group formed by guitarist Kenji Omura, bassist Takeo Yamamura and drummer Martin Willweber. Kenji Omura was a regular sideman of jazz keyboardist Jun Fukamachi and a session musician for the Yellow Magic Orchestra, while Martin Willweber studied at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Both joined Jun Fukamachi on stage, in particular for the Triangle Session tour in 1977 featuring The Breckers Brothers. Count's Jazz Rock Band  is probably a wink to the Steve Marcus album's "Count's Rock Band". 

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Jun Fukamachi - Triangle Session

Year : 1977
Label : Kitty
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk, Space-Age, Electronic

"Triangle Session" is a live recording from amazing performance at Tokyo Seibu Theater in 1977 featuring keyboardist Jun Fukamachi & his KORG synthesizer. "Triangle Session" is the meeting between iconic japanese master of the electronic Jazz-Funk and The Brecker Brothers including US-Japan musicians such as trombonist Barry Rogers and guitarist Kenji Omura. Titles include two tracks extracted from "Second Phase" album released in 1977 (Stick Freighter, Plastic Echelon), an insane electro-funk version in up-tempo of "Perfidy" (from "Introducing Jun Fukamachi", 1974), an extended version of "Hateruma" (from "Rokuyu", 1975) and "Funky Sea, Funky Dew" composed by Michael Brecker.

MUSICIANS : Jun Fukamachi - keyboards - Michael Brecker - saxophone - Randy Brecker - trumpet - Barry Rogers - trombone - Kenji Takamizu - bass - Kenji Omura - guitar - Martin Willweber - drums - Motoya Hamaguchi & Pecker - percussions

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