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Recordings featuring traditional Japanese instruments.

Album CoverMedia TitleMedia TypeArtistMedia LabelCatalog NumberDateSynopsis
Gagaku Gagaku LP Various Columbia CLS-5006 1961
Gagaku - The Imperial Court Music of Japan Gagaku - The Imperial Court Music of Japan LP Various Lyrichord LLST 7126

Gakuon Jyu Gakuon Jyu CD Fukuda Teruhisa Kojima Recordings, Inc. ALCD-9014 1999 Honkyoku, solo shakuhachi and a piece for shakuhachi and shamisen.
Ganjo no Matsu - performance study Ganjo no Matsu - performance study CD Various Matsumura Sound Collection


Gendai Sōkyoku (Modern Koto Music) Gendai Sōkyoku (Modern Koto Music) LP Hiratsuka Yoshio Toshiba TH-7041
Works by koto and shakuhachi player Hiratsuka Yoshio
Gendai Sōkyoku Meikyokusen 7 Gendai Sōkyoku Meikyokusen 7 CD Various Victor VXCD-2007 1994

Gentle Landscape AC Scott-Behrends, Jim


Shakuhachi, pan flute, recorder, synthesizer, sounds of nature.
Ghost Stories Ghost Stories CD Rothenberg, Ned Tzadik 7061 2000/08 A downtown mainstay for twenty years, composer/multi-woodwind performer Ned Rothenberg makes his Tzadik debut with a stunning CD of chamber music. Acclaimed for work in a wide variety of contexts from the multi-metric funk of his Double Band to the large chamber jazz of Power Lines, Rothenberg here shows both range and focus in works for unprecedented instrumentations that have epic scope. Asian and western instruments combine in scores mixing improvised solo features with through-composed ensembles. Ghost Stories is one of Rothenberg most accomplished works.
Gift Gift CD Norman, Anne


Spontaneous improvisations with shakuhachi and guitar.
Gin'ei Nyūmon Shū (Introduction to Gin'ei) Gin'ei Nyūmon Shū (Introduction to Gin'ei)
Endō Kutō Polydor MN 3028
Poem recitation/ chanting (Gin'ei) accompanied by shakuhachi, koto and orchestra.
Ginyu Ginyu CD Linder, Gunnar Jinmei



Global Motion Global Motion CD Singer, John Blue Phoenix Music. JS-06 1994 A world jazz recording with Paul Horn and members of Skywalk, with rhythms ranging from Brazilian, to African, to Japanese. Global Motion matches master flutist John Singer's shakuhachi with sax, flute, keyboards, guitar, bass, vocals, and a lot of percussion.
Go Where Go Where CD Torikai Ushio Victor VDR-1026

Grace Grace CD Ishigure Masayo



Grand Masters of the Shakuhachi Flute Grand Masters of the Shakuhachi Flute CD Yamaguchi Gorō Auvidis under license of Japan Victor H.M.V. A 6139 1988
Groupo Gekko Groupo Gekko CD Danbrook, Debbie


An innovative collaboration featuring the music of Debbie Danbrook on Shakuhachi, voice, piano, koto, flutes & percussion - Celina Carroll on berimbau, voice, percussion, kalimba & guitar and Anne Bourne on Cello, voice, piano, viola, guitar and percussion.

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