Fantastic Afro Bossa album from Mr. Guitar Shoji Yokouchi and his Shoji Yokouchi Quintet, some out of this world music on this one and this one came out in 1967....
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From wiki Yokouchi Shouji (9 November 1933 - 17 May 1996) was a composer, arranger and guitarist from Dalian, Manchuria. Actor Tadashi Yokouchi, guitarist Hiroshi Okawa and Hiroshi Yokouchi are his younger brothers.
Overview. Graduated from Dalian Commercial High School. After the war, he repatriated to Kyushu and played at the US military camp in Kokura. Later, after playing with Watanabe Hiroshi, Yoshiya Jun, Hiraoka Seiji and others, he formed his own group and became one of the leading guitarists of Showa jazz.
In the 1960s, he produced many of his own leader albums across Japan's major record companies, including King Records, Victor Records, Polydor Records and Nippon Columbia, and also worked with singers from each company's Western music division and in group-sounds-based adjunct playing and arrangements. His business style, in which he not only produced leader albums but also guested on recordings of various other genres, arranged orchestras and completed albums, is a style of studio musician, music producer, arranger and track-maker that has continued with the history of MTR in Japan right up to the present day, and was pioneered by the He was a pioneer in this style.
After signing an exclusive contract with Toshiba Records as ‘Mr Guitar’, he became one of Japan's leading guitar virtuosos with a unique style and tone that weaves together techniques cultivated in jazz and sings straight melodies with power and emotion, and has appeared in numerous films, TV and radio programmes. He has made a name for himself through numerous appearances in films, television and radio programmes. In the 1967 Nikkatsu film Sunset is Crying, he played the role of Masako Izumi's brother in the heroine's role, alongside The Spiders, as the ‘No.1 guitarist in Japan’.
Many of his easy listening albums from this period were also released overseas, and he has gained a very large overseas fan base in Europe and South America.
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Overview.
Graduated from Dalian Commercial High School. After the war, he repatriated to Kyushu and played at the US military camp in Kokura. Later, after playing with Watanabe Hiroshi, Yoshiya Jun, Hiraoka Seiji and others, he formed his own group and became one of the leading guitarists of Showa jazz.
In the 1960s, he produced many of his own leader albums across Japan's major record companies, including King Records, Victor Records, Polydor Records and Nippon Columbia, and also worked with singers from each company's Western music division and in group-sounds-based adjunct playing and arrangements. His business style, in which he not only produced leader albums but also guested on recordings of various other genres, arranged orchestras and completed albums, is a style of studio musician, music producer, arranger and track-maker that has continued with the history of MTR in Japan right up to the present day, and was pioneered by the He was a pioneer in this style.
After signing an exclusive contract with Toshiba Records as ‘Mr Guitar’, he became one of Japan's leading guitar virtuosos with a unique style and tone that weaves together techniques cultivated in jazz and sings straight melodies with power and emotion, and has appeared in numerous films, TV and radio programmes. He has made a name for himself through numerous appearances in films, television and radio programmes. In the 1967 Nikkatsu film Sunset is Crying, he played the role of Masako Izumi's brother in the heroine's role, alongside The Spiders, as the ‘No.1 guitarist in Japan’.
Many of his easy listening albums from this period were also released overseas, and he has gained a very large overseas fan base in Europe and South America.