Toshi Kankawa
BIII


Tracks:

1. St. Louis Blues
2. Stone Free
3. Hey Joe
4. Cat Street (CBA Remix)
5. Talkin' 'Bout Mr. K (N.J.Remix)
6. Impressions
7. Family
8. Tokyo Intro
9. Tokyo
10. Green Onions
11. Plant A Tree, Plant Love

Line up:

Toshi Kankawa - organ
Nick Moroch - guitars
Hiram Bullock- guitars
Kevin Kuhn - guitars
Dennis Chambers - drums
Ronnie Cuba - baritone sax
Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff - trumpet
Charles Famborough - acoustic bass
Corey Glover - vocals
Britt Savage - vocals
Joe Lynn Turner - vocals
Terry Thornton - vocals
Chris Hunter - alto sax
David Sanborn - alto sax
Anthony Jackson - electric bass
Tony Levin - electric bass
Howard Johnson - tuba
Pete Levin - piano & synthesizers
Lou Marini - tenor sax
Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin - shakuhachi flute
Jon Valhalla - trombone
Lenny White - drums

Record Label / Year of Release:

JVC Records (Europe) / Victor Entertainment (Japan) 1996

Notes:

Toshi Kankawa was born in Osaka in 1954, and seems to have crawled to a B-3 organ not long after. Officially he started taking piano lessons at age three, and by the time he was a teenager he was already playing professionally. Although he plays various keyboards, Kankawa early on became a devotee of the soulful sounds of the B-3 Hammond organ. Having set his course, he decided to study with a master, and he chose perhaps the most celebrated player of the instrument - jazz funk master Jimmy.

Bonus tracks on Japanese release: "Tuff Enuff" & "Into Mystic".

Joe Lynn Turner sings on "Hey Joe" & "Family"