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Documenting the jazz musicians and singers that people don’t think of too much.
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Light On, Horizon! – Original Jazz Fusion Composition
As stated on my updates, I am coming back with some compositions I had been working on.
Also, another documentary is soon to be completed, finally after a year of being busy with other stuff!
This track is an original of mine. It’s a very simple melodic motif. Enjoy! Below are some timestamps.
Software: Logic Pro X
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - E. Guitar Melody
1:48 - Piano Solo
2:41 - Synth Lead Solo
3:34 - Breakdown & Ending
A video from Cuevas Productions.
Also, another documentary is soon to be completed, finally after a year of being busy with other stuff!
This track is an original of mine. It’s a very simple melodic motif. Enjoy! Below are some timestamps.
Software: Logic Pro X
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - E. Guitar Melody
1:48 - Piano Solo
2:41 - Synth Lead Solo
3:34 - Breakdown & Ending
A video from Cuevas Productions.
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Видео
Wii Sports/Wii Sports Resort: Bowling Theme - Jazz Fusion Remix
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Wii Sports/Wii Sports Resort Bowling theme song fusion version remix. Wear headphones 🎧. If you want something quick, I have timestamps below. Or just listen to 2:27 and onwards. The Wii Sports Bowling game and theme were always stuck in my head as a little kid. My favorite childhood pastime was scaring a bunch of geezers with an aerial reversing bowling ball in the game. Jokes aside, I wanted ...
DIMENSION: J-Fusion Officially Made Mario Kart Music
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DIMENSION, the main contributors to the Mario Kart 8 soundtrack, is a band that formed in 1992 in Tokyo, Japan. It was originated by Takashi Masuzaki, who originally had worked on music for a rally television station in Japan, and was also under the Studio titled “Being”. Soon, he would meet the talents Akira Onozuka and Kazuki Katsuta. They would then collaborate in 1992 on music for the Le Ma...
Masato Honda: How T-Square Changed in the 90's.
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Masato Honda [本田雅人] and T-Square, a well-known Japanese jazz fusion band that began in 1976, are considered to be a staple in the history of Japanese jazz fusion. Takeshi Itoh would leave the group temporarily in 1991, and Honda would be in the spotlight for about 6 years. Woth the help of phenomenal musicians Hirotaka Izumi, Mitsuru Sutoh, Hiroyuki Noritake, and Masahiro Ando, they would impro...
I've seen T-Square live and we all would just scream SUTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH You need that beastly bass to counterbalance the rocket fuel that Honda blows from that saxophone. As an alto player, myself, he's just amazing. Incredible precision on tongue attack and pitch every single time.
11/10 6 stars of 5
This band creates new dimension,Literally
いいね！
ありがとうございます😊。
Funny how i was just scrolling through the comments of the big blue mario kart 8 ost and someone mentioned dimension which made me listen to it, and boy, I really like J-Fusion now. And your video is phenomenal man, keep it up.
A really inspiring tune! <3
thanks!
日本のスクエアには安藤まさひろが、アメリカのスクエアにはジョー・サトリアーニがいました 特集してくれてありがとう。CHASERはフジテレビのツール・ド・フランス中継のテーマソングでした🚲
Wow, this is actually really good. Did not expect that from such a low-view video (no offense). Great job!
Thanks!
Did Takeshi play on the Katsumi albums? I thought it was Hidefumi toki, another great sax player. I think Takeshi is better than Honda, though.
Not to my knowledge no. Honda played on a few albums from the Katsumi band, as well as a few other saxophone players like Toki.
Although it was not featured in the video, "Moon Over The Castle", composed by Masahiro Ando, is widely known around the world as the theme song for the PlayStation game software "Gran Turismo" series. It is very unfortunate that Hirotaka Izumi, who was in charge of T-SQUARE's piano (keyboard) for many years, passed away in 2021 at the age of 62. His compositions "Omens of love" and "TAKARAJIMA" have been arranged for wind ensembles and are currently being performed actively in junior high school and high school brass bands in Japan.
本田さんが1997年に退団して、Victor Entertainmentに移籍し、梶原順(g)、松本圭司(key)、青木智仁(b)、則竹裕之(ds)と活動開始。サントラをVictor Entertainmentから出していた菅野よう子さんと出会ってSeatbeltsに参加、"COWBOY BEBOP"のOP "Tank!"など担当。 青木さんが亡くなった後は、松本圭司(key)、須藤満(b)、則竹裕之(ds)で「本田雅人 with VOICE OF ELEMENTS」結成。近年はT-SQUAREに復帰参加
はい、忙しくなければ本田さんの旅の後半を動画にしたいと思っています. ご清覧ありがとうございました。
Entendi tudo para dizer ao contrário.
安藤正容 伊東たけし
1990's release Natural is, in my opinion, their best work as a band overall. Partly because Russ Freeman from The Rippingtons was involved, but it just has so many great songs - moreso than other records IMO. Blue In Red is a great album though, no doubt about it. As far as T-Square after 2000 goes, they have some strong albums like 33, Nine Stories, AI Factory and Horizon.
I've heard that Russ Freeman is the reason it's not available to listen anywhere here in the United States.
@@ZachNa That's news to me. Never had trouble getting a copy.
I think DIMENSION were basically untouchable up to and through 10th Dimension, though they have some great later period albums like 23 as well.
Yeah I have a few favorites amongst their later albums
@@jcuevasproductions please can you recommend some albums, I am kind of new to Dimension and there are so many albums to choose from!
@@huckleberry38-pn4wo Second Dimension and Fourth Dimension are my favorite early ones. I have had a harder time with the middle phase but 12th Dimension “If” has resonated the most. I most enjoy the latter albums. I got into the band through 27 and it is a strong favorite. 27 also was the first album to release after Mario Kart 8 debuted in 2014. I think 33, 26, and 29 are each amazing. Lastly, all Kazuki Katsuta’s solo albums are worth a listen. My favorite is the self titled one also from 2014.
Can you do the results theme for bowling too?
I will try my best
Great job on this!
Nice video! So happy to see content and popularity explode in the west for J-Fusion. For the ending, I’ll add that notably Shoji Meguro, of atlus fame, is one artist who openly exprimed his inspiration from TSquare/Casiopea (among others, like Tchaikovsky). I’ve read it in several intevriews, and that’s how I actually discovered the bands, and genre, in the late 00s/early 10s)
His sound and fluency is exactly what I strive for on alto. Hopefully one day I'll reach there!
Honda was musically on his peak in the early 2000s just listen to the live recordings, they are really something else. Thanks for the Video! Nice Work ❤
I agree. A second part to Honda’s albums is going to be made at some point, but I’ve been pretty busy 😅 so idk when that will be
日本の音楽とゲームを愛してくれてありがとう！ チャンネル登録しました！ Thanks for loving Japanese fusion and video games! subscribed to your channel!
Great video
Dimension remained interesting up until their 21st album. Everything after that is a bit too recycled and uninspired. Their run of 3rd - 12th dimension is insane
My thoughts exactly, there’s a couple bangers here and there in their newer albums I’d say their 14th or 15th album was pretty much their last original sounding album. They were pretty lit in their starting years though, I never get tired of their early albums
@@jcuevasproductions interestingly enough, my all time favorite dimension album has to be "My Rule" their 19th album. After that it's probably 4th, and then 10th
1st to 7th is the best section for me, but after 21 up to 30 there are some of their best songs of all time.
The latter phase 24 and forward is my favorite!
なくなった友人がCDをゆずってくれました。😂
Uno de los mejores videos que he visto, Miyazaki igual se sacó buenos temas con t-square, pero todos los saxofonistas de ese grupo son excelentes.
日本人的にこのバンドはMARIO KARTよりGRANTURISMOのほうが印象深い
Thank you for making this! There's so much information this video provides that surprised me left and right, especially with the involvement of Satoshi Bandoh & Hiroyuki Noritake on DIMENSION's later albums! It also caught me off guard to learn about Akira Jimbo's involvement with the band. There's always more to learn huh! I've been wanting to learn more about DIMENSION but sadly their Spotify page gives a bio on a different band that ALSO has the name DIMENSION haha. This video is a life saver! I'm glad you also brought up Teppei Kawasaki, his involvement with T-Square & DIMENSION cannot be understated! He's also apart of Takeshi Itoh's MELLOW MADNESS Septet! Keizo Kawano's album BEST FRIENDS also features Kazuki Katsuta on the track Shadow Striker. It's fantastic to see more appreciation for DIMENSION! I think they're my favorite Jazz Fusion band!
yo, excellent stuff. really feels like t-square
Amazing video. Hugs from Brazil. I love Masato Honda and T-Square.
Jazz fusion has influenced Japanese video game music from its earliest days. "Magical Sound Shower", "Splash Wave", and "Passing Bleeze" are songs from OUTRUN, one of SEGA's most famous games. There is an influence of The SQUARE/CASIOPEA. SEGA's sound team used to form a band called "SST", and they produced an album called "Super Sonic Team" with Issey Noro of CASIOPEA. In addition, we can see that much of SEGA's game music in the 80's and 90's was heavily influenced by Jazz-Fusion.
Also, the latin jazz some from outrun was inspired by Naoya Matsuoka
T-sqaure members were kinda at world famous skill level, BUT HONDA MASATO was in WORLD TOP RATED level.
hold on Midnight Ride and Race to mt Fuji were commissioned by LUDWIG?!? I just found them under Dimension's albums on Spotify, to think this is where they came from!
Yeah i had no clue either until I read the description on his featured video
You might be pleasantly surprised to find the main motif idea in Midnight Ride appears in another track by DIMENSION titled "Stylish of Swing"
Thanks for the chronology cause besides other hardcore sax players (the world) not much is known about one the *greatest sax players ever.*
Love this! Thanks for this look at T-Square's music and Masato Honda.
wowie i love
Hey man, I just wanna say that your videos are great! Making me appreciate the sound of j-fusion even more
What’s the song on 3:10?
Big City by T-Square
What a wonderful video!
PLEASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS LIKE THESE. I would love to hear your words on people like Takanaka or Makoto Matsushita
Big mistake bringing Itoh back to replace Miyazaki in my opinion. While Miyazaki was not quite as technical as Honda, he was still more than proficient and made up the difference with his soulful note squeezing, especially in live performances. I guess they were stuck in a bit of a rut when it came to composing new material after all those albums, and this was wrongly attributed to Miyazaki and Matsumoto.
They apparently disbanded shortly but I have yet to find any info about why it happened. I kinda wish Miyazaki had more time officially other than their live concerts. I feel he’s underrated especially when listening to him in Satoshi Bando’s albums.
@@jcuevasproductions The reason why Takahiro Miyazaki, Mitsuru Sudo, and Hiroyuki Noritake left T-SQUARE at the same time is because of Masahiro Ando's "retirement declaration." Ando told the members that he wanted to leave T-SQUARE. "Ando must remain in the band. That's why we're leaving the band," he persuaded Ando, and Miyazaki, Sudo, and Noritake left the band. After that, Takeshi Ito rejoined, and T-SQUARE began to operate as a unit of Ando and Ito. Ando eventually left T-SQUARE in 2021. The reasons are as follows. "I started to feel like it was hard to compose for the new album that I release every year." T-SQUARE fans say, "There's no need to release a new album every year, so I want Ando to remain the band's leader forever."
@@joyjapan3504 Do you know something about what went wrong between Masato Honda and Masahiro Andoh?
@@MiniRubio I think there was probably some kind of feud between them. For example, the story goes something like, ``Every time Honda produced an album for T-SQUARE, Honda created four new songs, but only two of them were accepted.The reason was that Andoh rejected them.'' Another thing is that when Honda and Andoh sat together for the first time in about 20 years (probably at Izumi's funeral), Andoh said to Honda, "What is your name?" This source is Honda's official RUclips channel. I don't know if this episode is a joke on Andoh's part, but no matter how much we haven't seen each other, there's no way I'll ever forget the faces of my former band members. In other words, I believe that Honda felt that Andoh hated him at the end of his tenure with T-SQUARE, and that he completely distanced himself from T-SQUARE (Andoh) after the 25th anniversary concert. SStill, Honda participated in the ``45th Anniversary Concert'' held last year for the first time in 20 years after leaving the band, and performed with Andoh for a short time. What follows is entirely my personal opinion. I think Andoh felt that the style of Honda's songs didn't suit T-SQUARE. Some of Honda's songs have only a prominent saxophone and no solo performances by other instruments. I think Andoh did not like such songs.
@@joyjapan3504 Oh, that's kinda sad :( Thanks for the quick answer!
Fellow t-square nerd here!
Thank you for this very good video, Mr. Jesús Cuevas. Great job. If you have time, I think you could make another video about Voice of Elements, with M. Honda, H. Noritake, M Sutoh and K. Matsumoto. Felicitaciones desde Lima.
Yes this is pretty much a part one. Masato did a lot of stuff after T-Square after all. Y muchas gracias. Espero que todo esté bien 👍.
@@jcuevasproductions Muchas gracias a usted, estimado Jesús.
Excellent video!! I find very little informative material like yours about the Japanese Jazz Fusion scene here on RUclips, especially in English. The "western world" needs to know about these gems... Masato Honda, T-Square, Dimension, Four of a Kind ...
This nostalgia cooking me right now
We need to square up in this game again
I would not say improve…But changed? Thanks for the video 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for collecting and sorting out the information to make this video. I am very pleased because of the recommendation of RUclips, I have listened to music from YMO, casiopea, and T-square in the past five years.😊
awesome video! I've listened to T-square and other j-fusion bands over the years and to me, none of them beats the self-titled album of Casiopea, that fast, tight, technical early style of Casiopea rly does the job for me and I can hear several influences like Return to Forever on them haha. I'd love to see a video about Casiopea!
Yeah I’m hoping to make one at some point about them
this was cool 😎 what’s the song starting at 9:25?
After Glow by DIMENSION in their Hearts album
any reason why this got reuploaded?
Yessir I made a post but basically there was a missing chunk of info that was brought to my attention that I thought was really important
I would put Prism too as one of the most influential J Fusion bands in Japan
Most definitely that video will eventually exist on the channel too 👍