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Sadao Watanabe to Release "Basie's At Night"

Posted on: Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 18:00 CDT

Japanese jazz saxophonist Sadao Watanabe is set to release a new, double-disc album and perform on rare select dates in the U.S.

"Basie's At Night" will be released on September 2, 2008 and features some of Watanabe's best songs recorded at Basie's in Ichinoseki, Iwati on April 14, 2007.

Watanabe learned clarinet and alto in high school, and moved to Tokyo in the '50s, where he joined Toshiko Akiyoshi's bop-oriented group. When the pianist moved to the U.S. in 1956, Watanabe took over the band.

Watanabe has remained mostly based in Japan throughout his career, but when he attended Berklee in the early '60s, he was able to work with Gary McFarland, Chico Hamilton, and Gabor Szabo.

The tracklisting for "Basie's At Night" is:

 Disc 1                 Disc 2 1.  One For you        1.  Bye Bye Babe 2.  Plum Island        2.  Basie's At Night 3.  I'm Old Fashioned  3.  Life Is All Like That (For Snoopy & his friends) 4.  Alalake - Lopin'   4.  See What Happens 5.  Tembea             5.  Call me 6.  Deep In A Dream    6.  Manha De Carnaval 7.  Maji               7.  Episode                        8.  Karibu                        9.  Harambee                        10. Carinhoso 

Additionally, Watanabe will perform on select U.S. dates in August and September.

 The U.S. dates are:       August 29 - 31     San Francisco, CA    Yoshi's       September 2 -3     Los Angeles, CA      Catalina Jazz Club       September 5 - 6    Washington, D.C.     Blues Alley       September 8        New York, NY         Blue Note       September 9        Boston, MA           Regatta Bar       September 10       Chicago, IL          TBD 

About KOCH Entertainment

KOCH Entertainment, founded in 1987 and now in its twenty-second year, is the leading and fastest-growing independent music company in the U.S. KOCH's operations encompass record and video labels, music publishing as well as distribution companies in the U.S. and Canada. KOCH Entertainment is the market leader among independent labels and distributors in both the U.S. and Canada. Its record label KOCH Records is the # 1 independent label in the U.S. and had the largest number of Billboard charting albums among independents for seven years in a row (2001 - 2007). KOCH Entertainment is a subsidiary of Entertainment One Ltd. which is listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market (ticker symbol "ETO.L").

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SOURCE: KOCH Records

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