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Released
  
1976

Artist
  
Herbie Mann

Producer
  
Herbie Mann

Genres
  
World music, Jazz fusion

Length
  
48:58

Release date
  
1976

Label
  
Atlantic Records

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Recorded
  
April 1 & 14, 1974Mori Studios in Tokyo, Japan

Gagaku & Beyond(1976)
  
Herbie Mann & Fire Island(1977)

Similar
  
Bird in a Silver Cage, Mississippi Gambler, The Family of Mann, Yardbird Suite, Waterbed

Gagaku & Beyond is an album by jazz flautist Herbie Mann featuring shakuhachi player Minoru Muraoka which was recorded in Japan in 1974 but only released on Atlantic Records subsidiarly label, Finnadar, in 1976.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "Gagaku & Beyond had Mann working in the world music fusion genre with great success long before new age or "world music" were ever marketing catch phrases. ...this is, along with Mann's more soul- and bossa-oriented recordings, one of his most essential works: groundbreaking, heartrendingly beautiful, and full of deep, contemplative soul".

Track listing

  1. "Shomyo (Monk's Chant)" (Traditional) - 14:23
  2. "Mauve Over Blues" (Pat Rebillot) - 12:59
  3. "Kurodabushi (Sake Drinking Song)" (Traditional) - 5:25
  4. "Etenraku" (Traditional) - 8:50
  5. "Gagaku and Beyond" (Herbie Mann) - 7:21

Personnel

  • Herbie Mann - flute
  • Pat Rebillot - keyboards
  • Sam Brown - guitar
  • Tony Levin - bass
  • Steve Gadd - drums

    • With:

  • On tracks 1-3 - Minoru Muraoka and His New Dimension:
  • Minoru Muraoka - shakuhachi
  • Yosei Sato - shō
  • Eriko Kuramoto, Harumi Nakamura, Kazuko Tsubamoto - koto
  • Somei Sasaki - shamisen
  • Kisuku Katada - o-daiko
  • Hiromitsu Katada - taiko
  • On track 1 - Modern Shomyo Study Group:
  • Junsen Kitani, Junsho Matsumoto, Kenei Muramatsu, Ryusho Tsurutaka - vocals
  • On track 4 - Ono Gagaku Society:
  • Ryoya Ono - leader
  • Goro Ibeke - gaku so
  • Akihiko Ue - gaku-biwa
  • Yoshio Togi - hichiriki
  • Kiyohiko Yamada - ryūteki
  • Shigeru Iwanami - shō
  • Tkashi Ono - shōko
  • Kiichiro Togi - taiko

    • Songs

    1Shomyo (Monk's Chant)14:24
    2Mavue Over Blues13:00
    3Kurodabushi5:25

    References

    Gagaku & Beyond Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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