Gerry <222ggg@adelphia.net.invalid> wrote in message news:<191020031100141446%222ggg@adelphia.net.invalid>...
> In article <a24d2dae.0310190506.19137860@posting.google.com>, wasabi
> <shibuya@excite.com> wrote:

<SNIP>

Your in luck!  I just found this notice.  These guys might be able to
get you started.  BTW, I was describing Tokyo & Yokohama.  I haven't
heard/seem many jazz guitarist myself--most combos are piano, bass,
drums, & sax/trumpet.  I think that teaching guitar requires some
ability to instruct in Japanese.

Anyway, you should contact these guys.  Good luck!

Dear Improviser,                                

I am writing you to ask if you would be interested in performing on a
gig with
Bruce Eisenbeil and I during our tour of Japan this December (6th –
22). We
will be performing in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagoya.
Because I do
not know where you live in Japan, I do not know which gig to invite
you to
perform with us on this tour. This letter is just to see if you are
interested
in the possibility of performing with us. If you are interested,
please resond
directly to one of us and let us know which of the cities listed you
are
closest to, and if necessary please tell us your availability for this
month.

Bruce Eisenbeil and I are professional spontaneous improvisers and
have
recorded and performed extensively in the United States and Europe.
This is our
first tour of Japan. Eisenbeil is a NYC based  guitarist and I am a
percussionist/drummer. We recently released a cd together on Nine
Winds
records. To learn more about Bruce and I please visit our respective
websites:
www.eisenbeil.com and www.stephenflinn.net.

It is our intention to develop cross-cultural relations with
improvisers in
your country. Our goal is to foster relations with Japanese artists
and to help
them book tours and perform with us in America. Bruce is based in New
York city
and I am based in Los Angeles. We both are also involved with putting
on
creative music performances in our respective cities. 

Thank you very much for your consideration and we look forward to your
reply.

All the best, 

Stephen Flinn 

Stephenflinn99@hotmail.com

eisenbeil@aol.com

BRUCE EISENBEIL - electric and acoustic guitars
Downbeat Magazine wrote: "Eisenbeil plays in a strikingly original
style, the
aural equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, laced with abstract
filigree
lines and an undercurrent of searching lyricism." Each of Eisenbeil's
cd's -
OPIUM, MURAL and NINE WINGS - has received critical acclaim.  He has
performed
throughout the USA, Brazil  and at many festivals including the Texaco
New York
Jazz Festival, Vision Festival, CMJ Music Conference, Buffalo
Interprov
Festival, Philadelphia Mellon Jazz Festival, Trenton Avant-garde
Festival, and
the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.  Eisenbeil has collaborated with
many fine
musicians including:  Cecil Taylor, David Murray, Milford Graves, Evan
Parker,
Ellery Eskelin, Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, Micheal Manring and
many
others.  The readers and writers of Cadence Jazz Magazine voted OPIUM,
his
recent CD, one of the top 10 new jazz releases of 2002.  For more info
see:
www.eisenbeil.com

Stephen Flinn - drums, percussion
has been a professional musician for over twenty years, performing
most styles
of western music throughout the United States and Europe. He has
performed
and/or recorded with Sam Most, Lynn Johnson, Bruce Eisenbeil, Tony
Wren,
Wolfgang Fuchs, Marcello Blanco, Jeremy Drake, Ayal Moaz, Jason
Michaels
(AACM), Jack Wright, and many European Improvisers. Flinn has toured
throughout
the UK.   He has 2 releases on the Nine Winds label.