Shunzo Ohno - Antares

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Year : 1980
Label : King Records

Serie : Electric Bird
Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk, Afro-Cuban Jazz

Second album by japanese trumpeter Shunzo Ohno released for the japanese fusion jazz label "Electric Bird", recorded at the famous Electric Lady studio, New York, featuring iconic Miles Davis' bassist, Marcus Miller. Antares is a typical jazz-funk album to the Afro-Cuban accents with amazing heavy funk grooves including explosive slapping bass (Low East Side, Rum Raisin) and dynamic Latin bongo-drums breaks (Bright Side, Antares). All tracks composed by Shunzo Ohno except "Rainbow Lovers" composed by Kazuko Ohno.

Shunzo Ohno - Quater Moon

Year : 1979
Label : King Records
Serie : Electric Bird
Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz
Style : Fusion, Jazz Funk, Smooth Jazz

"Quater Moon" was recorded at the famous Electric Lady studios in New York featuring american musicians including Marcus Miller, Carter Jefferson and Kenny Kirkland. Shunzo Ohno is a japanese trumpeter who played, recorded and toured with various renowned jazz figures such as Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock or Wayne Shorter. In the late sixties, Shunzo was enrolled by drummer Takeshi Inomata in his Jazz Rock band, The Sound Limited, he has only 19 years old. In the early seventies, Shunzo evolved in various groups like the Soul Media of saxophonist Jiro Inagaki, was sideman for drummer George Otsuka, and formed in 1972, his first jazz quartet featuring pianist Mikio Masuda. Settled in New York since 1974, after a tour throughout the US with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, he regularly played alongside others american musicians among drummer Roy Haynes, bassist Reggie Lucas, and within the Machito & His Afro Cuban Orchestra on stage. Shunzo recorded his first US leader album "Something's Coming" in 1975, and gains visibility from the Jazz Funk album "Bubbles" in 1976. Titles include only compositions arranged by Shunzo Ohno.

MUSICIANS : Shunzo Ohno - trumpet, flugelhorn & mini moog - Carter Jefferson - trumpet & saxophone - Kenny Kirkland & Onaje Allan Gumbs - keyboards - Marcus Miller - electric bass - Jeff Laton - guitar - Sue Evans - congas, percussion -  Victor Louis - drums

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