kaoru abe dead sax legend
 

I fixed your link. Here's the secret to YT vids on here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZsEHsRW54A

Just take the code after the "=" sign and then copy and paste it inbetween the "[YOUTUBE][ /YOUTUBE]" and it'll work.

Awesome song by the way. I like you. You stay a while.

You wouldnt think I was a coder would you! great, thank you!:beer::beer:

I'm not either. I just caught a mistake in my post. I made it clearer.

Kaoru Abe's legendary, one of the most emotive horn players of all time. Surprised that there wasn't a thread on him already.

Gradually Projection is my favourite work of his, it's a journey.



I always thought that Jazz Bed didn't get enough cred in his discography either.

He left it all on the table. Dude was aggressive af

Didn't his stomach burst or something? You play sax that hard and that's the result.

I wonder if Haino heard this before Watashi Dake?

Have you read Almost Transparent Blue?

It doesn’t answer your question but I think from reading it my impression is that players in the Japanese underground scene generally kept themselves pretty well-informed of what else was going on.

Ja it seems like a well connected scene (haven't read that though). Haino knew Abe personally, pretty sure they even played together, I'm just not sure if Abe played guitar enough for it to show up on the radar.

It’s a fun book to read

From what I've read it's that whole merzbow noise scene connection, which is very close knit.

The members of Melt Banana showed me around Tokyo and they seemed to know everyone. They knew Merzbow, the Boredoms, John Zorn (who owned a record store there) and just everybody.

cool, would love to go.

Alto Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone – Kaoru Abe
Drums, Percussion, Piano, Voice – Milford Graves
Tenor Saxophone – Mototeru Takagi
Trumpet, Horns [Alto] – Toshinori Kondo

Not on Spotify?

That looks incredible