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Biography
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Kazuo Imai
Real name: 今井和雄 (Imai Kazuo)
Effective period / Period of releases: 2004
Japanese free improviser, born in Kawasaki on September 24, 1955. Imai trained with two of the leading improvisers of post-war Japan, Masayuki Takayanagi and Takehisa Kosugi. He performed as a guest with Takayanagi's New Direction Unit and Kosugi's The Taj-Mahal Travellers.