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Eight Mile Road
Studio album by Ryo Kawasaki
Released	1976
Recorded	March 8–9, 1976 at Electric Lady Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	40:21
Label	East Wind Records
Producer	Ryo Kawasaki

Eight Mile Road is a follow-up album to Prism (1975) recorded by Ryo Kawasaki for East Wind Records. At the time of this recording, he was working and touring with Elvin Jones Jazz Machine and the first two tracks of this album were conceived during the tour with this band. Track one, "Eight Mile Road", was written while visiting Jones' home town Detroit performing at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, while track two, " Montevideo", was written while visiting and performing with Elvin Jones in the capital of Uruguay.

In addition to the same rhythm section from Prism, Kawasaki has invited saxophonist Sam Morrison (who was the last saxophonist with Miles Davis band until Davis' retirement during 1975) and pianist Andy Laverne (from Stan Getz's band at that time) to add jazzy acoustic flavor over his jazz funk-oriented compositions and electric sound.

This album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios built by Jimi Hendrix, and also won the best recording of the year by Japanese Jazz magazine Swing Journal in 1976.

All songs composed and arranged by Ryo Kawasaki

Track listing

1. Eight Mile Road ( Ryo Kawasaki) Ryka Music ( BMI) 8:31
2. Montevideo (Ryo Kawasaki) Ryka Music (BMI) 7:08
3. Good Night John (Ryo Kawasaki) Ryka Music (BMI) 5:27
4. On The Dot (Ryo Kawasaki) Ryka Music (BMI) 10:20
5. El Diablo (Ryo Kawasaki) Ryka Music (BMI) 8:55

• Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City

Personnel

• Ryo Kawasaki - electric guitar
• Sam Morrison - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone on Track 1,2,4 & 5
• Andy Laverne - Piano, Fender Rhodes, Clavinet Hohner, Synthesizer Arp String Ensemble
• Phil Clendeninn - Synthesizer ARP Odyssey on Track 1, 4 & 5
• Herb Bushler - electric bass
• Buddy Williams - drums
• Abdulah - Congas Percussion on Track 1,2,4 & 5
• David Baker - Recording and Mixing Engineer

References

• Eight Mile Road at AllMusic

External links

• Discogs