Tamio Kawabata

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Tamio Kawabata ( Japanese 川端 民生 , Kawabata Tamio ; born July 10, 1947 in Hokkaido ; † July 26, 2000 ) was a Japanese jazz musician ( electric bass , double bass ).

Tamio Kawabata worked in the Japanese jazz scene a. a. with Kenji Mori and Hideo Ichikawa , with whom the first recordings were made in 1974, and with Takeshi Shibuya , Shun Sakai , Shigeharu Mukai , Junichiro Ohguchi , Kazunori Takeda , Kōichi Matsukaze , Maki Asakawa and in the band Native Son, in the early 1980s he joined the bands of Yosuke Yamashita and Akira Sakata (EP Trauma , 1982); He was also involved in the 1980s and 1990s on recordings of Tomoki Takahashi ( Another Soil , 1980, with Elvin Jones ), Hitoshi Okano , Keizo Inoue , Akira Sakata, Eiichi Hayashi and Ryōjirō Furusawa . The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in jazz between 1974 and 1992 with 45 recording sessions.

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  1. With Kohsuke Mine (ts, sop), Takehiro Honda (keyboards), Motonobu Ohde (el-g), Hiroshi Murakami
  2. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 31, 2017)