Kazuo Imai

Kazuo Imai is a Japanese guitarist working in free improvisation, born in Kawasaki in 1955 and based in Tokyo. He studied with Takehisa Kosugi and with the guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, and he was the only private student of Takayanagi to complete his course. He is a member of Marginal Consort, a collective improvisation group that plays one concert a year, and has developed a long solo practice on guitar. Imai played with Kosugi's Taj Mahal Travellers from 1975 to 1977 and briefly with Takayanagi's New Directions in 1976.