Masayoshi Urabe (浦邊 雅祥, Urabe Masayoshi, born 1965) is a Japanese musician, best known for his intensely physical style of free improvisation on the alto saxophone and his deployment of long, laden silences. He has sometimes been compared to the late Japanese free jazz altoist
Kaoru Abe.
He has played with many underground musicians in Japan, including
Chie Mukai (
Ché-SHIZU),
Kan Mikami (Sanjah),
Hiroshi Hasegawa (
Astro,
C.C.C.C.), Junko (
Hijokaidan) and the psychedelic rock group
Kousokuya. Recently he formed the group Sanjah, with folk singer
Kan Mikami and drummer
Toshi Ishizuka. He also performs with the Paris-based dancer
Yukiko Nakamura.
Masayoshi Urabe (浦邊 雅祥, Urabe Masayoshi, born 1965) is a Japanese musician, best known for his intensely physical style of free improvisation on the alto saxophone and his deployment of long, laden silences. He has sometimes been compared to the late Japanese free jazz altoist
Kaoru Abe.
He has played with many underground musicians in Japan, including
Chie Mukai (
Ché-SHIZU),
Kan Mikami (Sanjah),
Hiroshi Hasegawa (
Astro,
C.C.C.C.), Junko (
Hijokaidan) and the psychedelic rock group
Kousokuya. Recently he formed the group Sanjah, with folk singer
Kan Mikami and drummer
Toshi Ishizuka. He also performs with the Paris-based dancer
Yukiko Nakamura.