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Hideto Kanai Group

Hideto Kanai Group has been played on NTS in shows including Japanese Jazz Week, featured first on 5 May 2021. Songs played include Kaleidoscope.

Kanai, Hideto, bassist; b. Tokyo, 1931. Along with guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, was a leader of the sixties avant-garde in Japan. Like so many of his generation, his professional career began in American servicemen's clubs, but after meeting Duke Ellington he began a more formal study of music. Kanai and Takayanagi founded the Jazz Academy (later New Century Music Workshop) in 1960, performing experimental jam sessions in coffeeshops that incorporated their interest in contemporary classical music and the jazz of…

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Kaleidoscope
Kanai,Hideto Group
Three Blind Mice1971
Kaleidoscope
Kanai,Hideto GroupThree Blind Mice1971
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