Known For Sound
Gender Male
Birthday 1949-05-05
Deathday 1978-09-09 (29 years old)
Place of Birth Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As 阿部 薫
Kaoru Abe (阿部 薫, Abe Kaoru) was an influential Japanese avant-garde alto saxophonist. Self-taught at a young age, Abe performed with notables such as Motoharu Yoshizawa, Takehisa Kosugi, Yosuke Yamashita, Derek Bailey, and Milford Graves,[1] although he generally performed solo. He was married to the author Izumi Suzuki, and a cousin to singer Kyu Sakamoto. He was portrayed in Kōji Wakamatsu's film Endless Waltz by punk rock singer Kō Machida. He is not to be confused with the Japanese actor Kaoru Abe. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia