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Olive's Step

{{Infobox album

|name = Olive's Step

|type = Studio

|artist = Kazumi Watanabe

|cover = KWatanabe_Olive.jpg

|released = {{Start date|1977|9|25}}

|recorded = June 1977

|studio = Nippon Columbia 1st Studio, Tokyo {{flagicon|JPN}}

|genre = Jazz fusion

|length = {{Duration|m=41|s=46}}

|label = Better Days
YX-7580-ND

|producer = Kazumi Watanabe

|chronology =

|prev_title = Milky Shade

|prev_year = 1976

|next_title = Mermaid Boulevard

|next_year = 1978

|}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000368578|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

Olive's Step is the 6th album by Japanese guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. The album was released on LP by Better Days label of Nippon Columbia in 1977.

Track listing

{{track listing

| headline = Side A

| total_length = 19:31

| title1 = Olive's Step

| note1 =

| music1 = Kazumi Watanabe

| length1 = 4:58

| title2 = Inner Wind

| note2 =

| music2 = Kazumi Watanabe

| length2 = 4:44

| title3 = Mellow Sunshine

| note3 =

| music3 = Kazumi Watanabe

| length3 = 6:47

| title4 = Movin' Nozzle

| note4 =

| music4 = Kazumi Watanabe

| length4 = 4:34

}}

{{track listing

| headline = Side B

| total_length = 22:15

| title1 = Sky

| note1 =

| music1 = Kazumi Watanabe

| length1 = 6:37

| title2 = Little Apple

| note2 =

| music2 = Kazumi Watanabe

| length2 = 3:06

| title3 = Dindi

| note3 =

| music3 = Antônio Carlos Jobim

| length3 = 6:45

}}

Personnel

Production

  • Producer - Kazumi Watanabe
  • Assistant Producers & Management Office - Zen Production Inc.
  • Recording Director - Tomohiro Saito
  • Mixing & Remixing Engineer – Kaoru Iida
  • Cover Design – Sign-Satoshi Saitoh, Mobuo Izumi
  • Art stuff - Hideo Nakata (Mok)
  • Cover Photo – Tadayuki Naitoh
  • Liner notes - Masamichi Okazaki
  • Liner notes - Eiichi Yoshimura (COCB-54209)

Release history

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Region

! Date

! Label

! Format

! Catalog

! Note

rowspan="11"| Japan

| {{Start date|1977|9|25}}

| rowspan="4"| Better Days

| rowspan="2"| 30cmLP

| YX-7580-ND

|

{{Start date|1977|8|5}}

| YX-7581

|

{{Start date|1993|10|21}}

| rowspan="4"|12cmCD

| COCA-11113

|

{{Start date|2001|9|21}}

| COCB-31637

| remaster

{{Start date|2004|12|22}}

| J-room

| COCB-53292

| remaster, Peper jacket,
KAZUMI BOX

rowspan="3"| {{Start date|2010|9|1}}

| Better Days

| COCB-53918

| HQCD,
KAZUMI WATANABE EARLY YEARS BOX

rowspan="4"|Columbia Music Entertainment, Inc.

| rowspan="4"|Music download

| 387861525

| iTunes Store{{Cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/jp/album/olives-step/387861525|title=Olive's Step Katsumi Watanabe|date=25 September 1977 |publisher=Apple Inc.|access-date=2018-04-28}}

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| Google Play Music{{Cite web|url=https://play.google.com/store/music/album/渡辺香津美_OLIVE_S_STEP?id=Bgpug6qbiu6bi3fhribxb5676lm|title=Olive's Step Kazumi Watanabe|publisher=Google Inc.|accessdate=2018-04-28}}

{{Start date|2012|10|24}}

| COKM-30934

| mora AAC-LC 320kbps{{Cite web|url=http://mora.jp/package/43000013/COKM-30934/|title=Olive's Step Kazumi Watanabe|publisher=LabelGate Co., Ltd.|accessdate=2018-04-28}}

{{Start date|2014|2|26}}

| B00IG2CIRM

| Amazon.com{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00IG2CIRM/|title=Olive's Step Katsumi Watanabe|publisher=Amazon.co.jp, Inc..|accessdate=2018-04-28}}

{{Start date|2017|7|19}}

| Better Days

|12cmCD

| COCB-54210

| UHQCD

External links

  • {{Discogs release|id=2560617|name=Kazumi Watanabe – Olive's Step|type=album}}
  • {{MusicBrainz release|mbid=60d91c90-543d-4ab4-97c2-64c7128f8764|name=Kazumi Watanabe – Olive's Step}}

References

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{{Kazumi Watanabe}}

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Category:1977 albums

Category:Kazumi Watanabe albums

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