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The Spice of Life Too

album by Kazumi Watanabe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ7765837 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Spice of Life Too is an album by jazz fusion guitarist Kazumi Watanabe; featuring Bill Bruford, Jeff Berlin and Peter Vettese. It was released on the Gramavision record label in 1988. The original title released in Japan is "The Spice of Life 2" with a different cover.

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The public source identifies “The Spice of Life Too” as album by Kazumi Watanabe. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Spice, Life and album.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Spice, Life and album providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Spice of Life Too”, the useful work is to connect “album by Kazumi Watanabe” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7765837. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Spice of Life Too” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.