Kazumi Watanabe - Guitar Solos and Improvisation Compilation

That’s a Plenty! by Lew Pollack - 0:00 Unicorn by Kazumi Watanabe - 0:35 UNT by Kazumi Watanabe - 2:18 CYCLONE by Kazumi Watanabe - 3:14 Unicorn by Kazumi Watanabe - 4:14 Kurdish Dance by Yosuke Yamashita - 5:12 JFK by Kazumi Watanabe - 6:12 September by Earth, Wind & Fire - 7:17 東京砂漠 by 内山田洋とクール・ファイブ - 8:29 Superstition by Stevie Wonder - 9:08 CITY by Kazumi Watanabe - 10:44 Manhatten Flu Dance by Kazumi Watanabe - 12:36 O-X-O by Resonance Vox - 13:07 紅の翼 by 佐藤勝 - 14:01 Unicorn by Kazumi Watanabe - 15:02 こきりこ節 - 16:25 Peking Duck by Resonance Vox -17:26 Nothing from Nothing by Billy Preston - 18:53  Milestones by Miles Davis - 19:44 ?????- 21:20 X by Resonance Vox - 22:24 Liquid Fingers by Kazumi Watanabe - 23:32 Unicorn by Kazumi Watanabe - 24:07 NO SOURCE  Summertime by Chaka Khan - 25:58 ????? - 28:34 遠州ツバメ返し by Kazumi Watanabe - 29:02 Unicorn by Kazumi Watanabe - 30:45 NO SOURCE Black Magic Woman by Peter Green - 32:48 FIGHT MAN by Casiopea and T-Square - 34:51 St. Louis Blues by Louis Armstrong - 36:44 Flamingo by Earl Bostic - 37:42 CITY by Kazumi Watanabe - 37:54 遠州ツバメ返し by Kazumi Watanabe - 39:26 Firewater by JIMSAKU - 41:08 NO SOURCE Impressions by John Coltrane - 43:47 #KazumiWatanabe (Japanese: 渡辺 香津美, Hepburn: Watanabe Kazumi, born October 14, 1953 in Tokyo) is a Japanese guitarist. Watanabe learned guitar at the age of 12 from Sadanori Nakamure at the Yamaha Music School in Tokyo. He released his first album in 1971. In 1979, he formed a jazz rock band with some of Japan’s leading studio musicians, and recorded the album Kylyn. During that year, he toured with the pop band #YellowMagicOrchestra. In the 1980s, he toured as guest soloist with Steps, the #BreckerBrothers, and Word of Mouth, led by #JacoPastorius. Watanabe created the #jazzrock/ #jazzfusion band Mobo in 1983 with Mitsuru Sawamura (saxophone), Ichiko Hashimoto (piano), Gregg Lee (bass), Shuichi Murakami (drums), and Kiyohiko Senba. During the eighties Watanabe released the jazz-rock albums To Chi Ka (1980), Mobo Club (1983), Mobo Splash (1985), and Spice of Life (1987). A DVD was issued from the tour which featured drummer Bill Bruford and bassist Jeff Berlin, who also played on the record. In the 1990s Kazumi assembled an all-Japanese line-up called #ResonanceVox (Vagabonde Suzuki on bass, Rikiya Higashihara on drums, Yahiro Tomohiro on percussion). This band has released several adventurous fusion albums. -From Kazumi Watanabe Wikipedia Due to the recent news of Kazumi Watanabe’s hospitalization and the fact that there are no videos that compile some of his solos together, I felt that this video (even as crudely edited as this one) deserved to be shown, to show how insanely gifted and talented Kazumi Watanabe is. Check out this playlist for more Kazumi Watanabe! Kazumi Watanabe Playlist: