Olive's Step
by Kazumi Watanabe
- Type: Album
- Released: September 1977
- Label: Better Days
- Country: Japan
- Length: 39:11
- Community rating: 3.46/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Japanese guitar virtuoso Kazumi Watanabe delivers a fluid, highly melodic set of instrumental jazz fusion on 'Olive's Step'. The album bridges the gap between complex jazz-rock improvisations and the breezy, accessible textures that would inform the city pop movement. It highlights his technical precision and evolving compositional voice in the late 1970s.
Genres
Descriptors: Fusion
Tracklist
- Olive's Step (4:58)
- Inner Wind (4:44)
- Mellow Sunshine (6:47)
- Movin' Nozzle (4:14)
- Sky (6:37)
- Little Apple (5:06)
- Dindi (6:45)
Credits
- Hideo Nakata - artwork [art staff]
- Mok - artwork [art staff]
- Hiro Tsunoda - drums
- Tsugutoshi Goto - electric bass
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - electric piano, clavinet, piano [acoustic piano], electric piano, synthesizer [arp odyssey, yamaha polyphonic synthesizer], electric piano, synthesizer [yamaha polyphonic synthesizer], electric piano, synthesizer [arp odyssey, solina, yamaha polyphonic synthesizer]
- Nobuyoshi Ino - acoustic bass, acoustic bass, handclaps [clap hand]
- Arihide Kurata - drums, drums, handclaps [clap hand]
- Hiroshi Matsumoto - electric piano, synthesizer [arp odyssey], electric piano, piano [acoustic piano], synthesizer [solina], electric piano, piano [acoustic piano], handclaps [clap hand]