Compilation bringing together some of the best original jazz tunes recorded by japanese pianist Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts for the "Cowboy Bebop" animated serie & movie "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", both directed by Shin'ichirō Watanabe. All tracks are composed & arranged by Yoko Kanno between 1998-2001, including New York recordings sessions with pianist Mark Soskin and some members of Brooklyn Funk Essentials, recorded & mixed by Rudy Van Gelder at RVG studio, New Jersey. Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Yoko Kanno - Kids On The Slope (Original Soundtrack)
Year : 2012
Label : Epic/Sony
Genre : Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style : Hard Bop, J-Pop
Original soundtrack from "Sakamichi No Apollon" directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo), based on a Yuki Kodama's manga, produced by pianist & iconic animation score composer Yoko Kanno. As on the "Cowboy Bebop" soundtrack, "Kids On The Slope" contains original compositions, some typical Yoko Kanno pop/rock songs and in particular, Hard Bop, Modal & Cool jazz tracks including the strandards from Milt Jackson (Bag’s Groove), Bobby Timmons (Moanin), Horace Silver (Blowin’ The Blues Away), George Gershwin (But Not For Me), George Shearing (Lullaby Of Birdland) or Duke Ellington (Satin Doll). All tracks arranged & recorded by Yoko Kanno featuring Masato Suzuki from Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet, Yasuo Sano & Masayoshi Furukawa from The Seatbelts.
MUSICIANS : Yoko Kanno - keyboards - Yasuo Sano & Masayoshi Furukawa - guitar - Takashi Matsunaga - piano - Shun Ishikawa - drums - Shinpei Ruike - trumpet - Masato Suzuki & Keisuke Torigoe - bass - Yuuka Nanri, Aoi Teshima & Manabu Yamaguchi - vocal
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