Ryo Kawasaki

Ryō Kawasaki (Japanese川 崎 燎, Ryo Kawasaki, born February 25, 1947 in Tokyo) is a Japanese jazz guitarist and composer.

Kawasaki was born on February 25, 1947 and came to performances in Japan in the 1960s, the early 70s in New York to start his career.

Besides his work as a session musician with Gil Evans (as Hendrix " replacement " on his album The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix and 1975 There Comes a Time ), with Chico Hamilton and Elvin Jones (with whom he also as well as later toured with Joanne Brackeen, Europe ) has already emerged in mid -1970, the first solo albums, such as " Eight mile road ", " Juice" or " prism", where his skill is evident also on MPS appeared today much sought disc " Nature's Revenge ".

As technology and computer Intent he retired in the 1980s from the music business to devote himself to the program until he intervened in the music business by starting your own record company, Satellites Records, in the early 1990s again. Since then, various publications are published at irregular intervals, most recently in 2002.

Kawasaki is distinguished by a unique guitar style, marked by a hard stop, but very fluent and creative in expression. He has his computer and programming knowledge helped to improve the sound on the guitar constantly (development of own guitar synthesizer in 1979 ), although he also published on the acoustic guitar ( album "Here, there and everywhere ").

As influences he lists as different guitarists like Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Carlos Santana, Andres Segovia or Django Reinhardt. Taking into account these different styles he has developed a unique sound, which it called the technical development does not close, but outside it is very open.