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Ryo Kawasaki
Guitarist and engineer, Ryo Kawasaki has combined his two specialties to create
instruments and multiply experiments over the course of a career rooted in jazz
fusion. Born in Tokyo on February 25, 1947, he learned the violin as a child,
then turned to the guitar in his teens. He formed his own band and devoted
himself to music after working as a sound engineer for the Victor label. A
session musician and sound illustration composer, he settled in New York in
1973, where he worked with Bobbi Humphrey, Gil Evans, Chico Hamilton and Elvin
Jones. His first American jazz fusion album...
