T-Square
Casiopea
Today, I had the first chance to visit blog of my classmates. So, I continually looked blog of my classmates for a few minutes. Some classmate’s blog post was not many post, on the other hand other classmate’s blog post was many post. Among many classmates blog, I was interested in Jae Sung’s blog. Especially, I read about Fusion Jazz Band, T-Square and Casiopea, I interestedly read his blog post because this blog post was about musician and actually I was also interested in Fusion music genre. Jae Sung looked so like T-Square and Casiopea because their music was impressed by his play. So, I more wanted to know about them, I simply researched about them. Casiopea was a Japanese jazz fusion band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Takashi Sasaki joined the group, leaving Hidehiko out of Casiopea. The group debuted with the self-titled album Casiopea in 1979, featuring Randy Brecker and Michael Brecker as guest musicians. In 1980, Takashi was replaced by Akira Jimbo. Casiopea has released over 35 albums to date in both Japan and the United States and T-Square is also a Japanese jazz fusion band that was formed in 1978. Its most successful lineup included guitarist Masahiro Andoh, bassist Mitsuru Sutoh, saxophonist, flutist and EWI player Takeshi Itoh, keyboardist Hirotaka Izumi, and drummer Hiroyuki Noritake. They are known for songs such as Truth, Japanese Soul Brothers, Takarajima, and Omens of Love among others. Only difference between two bands is various instruments. T-Square more used instrument then Casiopea. Among many their music, especially Dandelion Hill of T-Square used to advertisement music, Frankly speaking, although they were very famous musicians, I did not know about their existence, through Jae Sung I became to know about new genre music and was interested in them. Also taking this opportunity, I will meet with such their music.
