Songs for Gentlemen

by Mayumi Kojima

Songs for Gentlemen cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 February 2000
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: Japan
  • Community rating: 3.62/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A live album by the Japanese singer Mayumi Kojima, whose work revives the kayōkyoku and jazz pop idioms of postwar Japan. 'Songs for Gentlemen' presents her small-band arrangements in concert, her phrasing modeled on the Showa-era vocalists her repertory channels.

Genres

Descriptors: female-vocals, melodic, atmospheric, accessible, live

Tracklist

  1. 夏の光
  2. 飾窓の少女
  3. はつ恋
  4. スキャット･ブルース
  5. セシルのブルース
  6. マイモンキーはブルー
  7. 結婚相談所
  8. 結婚行進曲
  9. パレード
  10. 蜜蜂
  11. おしゃべり!おしゃべり!
  12. 真夏の海
  13. ろくでなし
  14. あの娘の彼
  15. プレイガーリー
  16. セシルカットブルース
  17. 夜明けのスキャット
  18. 私の運命線
  19. 恋の極楽特急
  20. 皆殺しのブルース

Credits

  • Kojima Mayumi - primary artist, lyrics by, music by, piano, vocals
  • Hiroto Kawahara - advisor
  • Koichi Ujiie - advisor
  • Shoji Mashio - advisor
  • 萩原 収 - advisor
  • Hitoshi Watanabe - bass [wood]
  • Yuji Nagayama - bass [wood]
  • So Koiwai - compiled by, editor
  • Toshiyuki Fukui - mastered by, recorded by
  • Sally Kubota - design
  • Ritsuko Sada - directed by
  • Nobuo Uesaka - executive-producer
  • Michio Yamagami - lyrics by
  • Tokiko Iwatani - lyrics by
  • 井ノ口晋五 - management [artist]
  • Kazuya Sato - mastered by
  • Masaki Narita - mixed by [remix by]
  • Adamo - music by
  • Taku Izumi - music by
  • 田村玲央奈 - photography by
  • Takeshi Ohhashi - recorded by
  • Tetsuya Hashimoto - recorded by
  • 前田治男 - recorded by
  • 嵯峨野義和 - recorded by

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