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George Kawaguchi
Kyoto, Japan
George Kawaguchi is credited on 89 releases across 28 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
89
Pressings credited
28
Albums
8
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
Joji "George" Kawaguchi (川口譲二) (June 15, 1927, Fukakusa, Kyoto - November 1, 2003, Tokyo) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader. Kawaguchi was raised in Dairen, Manchukuo, at that time a Japanese-occupied territory. He played in his father's ensemble as a teenager, and after World War II moved back to Japan, where he embarked on a career in jazz. He played first with an ensemble called the Azumanians, then joined the Big Four with Hidehiko Matsumoto, Hachidai Nakamura, and Mitsuru Ono; this ensemble played intermittently into the 1980s. He played extensively with Art Blakey on tour in the 1980s. He recorded extensively as a leader; his sidemen included Isao Suzuki, Motohiko Hino, Takeshi Inomata, Donald Harrison, Terence Blanchard, Norio Maeda, Tatsuya Takahashi, and Nobuo Hara. On July 22, 1966, he played with the John Coltrane quintet in Tokyo while the group was touring Japan.
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Credited work
89 releases · 28 albums · active 1956–2024
- Performance · 113
- Other credits · 7
Studios: Video Hall, Tokyo · Epicurus Studio · King Record Studio · CBS Recording Studio B
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- George Kawaguchi's The Big 4
- The Big Four
- George Kawaguchi Big Four
- George Kawaguchi & Big Four +1
- George Kawaguchi And Big Four
- George Kawaguchi & The Super Band
- SJ Jazz Workshop
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