Gagaku & Beyond is an album by jazz flautist Herbie Mann featuring shakuhachi player Minoru Muraoka which was recorded in Japan in 1974 but only released on Atlantic Records' subsidiary label, Finnadar, in 1976.Atlantic Records Discography: 1974 accessed September 1, 2015
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "Gagaku & Beyond had Mann working in the world music fusion genre with great success long before new age or "world music" were ever marketing catch phrases. ...this is, along with Mann's more soul- and bossa-oriented recordings, one of his most essential works: groundbreaking, heartrendingly beautiful, and full of deep, contemplative soul".
Track listing "Shomyo (Monk's Chant)" (Traditional) – 14:23 "Mauve Over Blues" (Pat Rebillot) – 12:59 "Kurodabushi (Sake Drinking Song)" (Traditional) – 5:25 "Etenraku" (Traditional) – 8:50 "Gagaku and Beyond" (Herbie Mann) – 7:21
Personnel Herbie Mann – flute Pat Rebillot – keyboards Sam Brown – guitar Tony Levin – bass Steve Gadd – drums With: On tracks 1–3 – Minoru Muraoka and His New Dimension: Minoru Muraoka – shakuhachi Yosei Sato – shō Eriko Kuramoto, Harumi Nakamura, Kazuko Tsubamoto – koto Somei Sasaki – shamisen Kisuku Katada – o-daiko Hiromitsu Katada – taiko On track 1 – Modern Shomyo Study Group: Junsen Kitani, Junsho Matsumoto, Kenei Muramatsu, Ryusho Tsurutaka – vocals On track 4 – Ono Gagaku Society: Ryoya Ono – leader Goro Ibeke – gaku so Akihiko Ue – gaku-biwa Yoshio Togi – hichiriki Kiyohiko Yamada – ryūteki Shigeru Iwanami – shō Tkashi Ono – shōko Kiichiro Togi – taiko
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