The Players With Hiromasa Suzuki - Galaxy 1979 FULL ALBUM

Tracks Listing: 1 Galaxy 6:13 2 In Your Mind 5:07 3 Unsweetened 2:06 4 Kaleidoscope 8:15 5 Heavenly Maiden 4:26 6 Magic Lamp 6:34 7 Sunny Sidewalk 4:14 8 Misty Moonlight 5:41 Line Up: Art Direction – Eiko Ishioka Bass Trombone – George Okada* Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor, Piano [Acoustic], Piano [Rhodes], Synthesizer [Mini-Moog, Arp Odyssey, Prophet 5] – Hiromasa "Colgen" Suzuki* Congas, Percussion – Tadaomi Anai Drums – Yuhichi Togashiki* Electric Bass – Akira Okazawa Electric Guitar – Tsunehide Matsuki Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Mabumi Yamaguchi Strings – Strings Tomato* Trombone – Harumi Mita, Hideo Iguchi, Yasuo Hirauchi Trumpet – Ichiroh Nitta*, Junichi Kanezaki The Players was a jazz-fusion band led by famed pianist/composer Hiromasa Suzuki, a predecessor to his Colgen Band. The band was often described as the Japanese Weather Report and boy were they spot on as the band is immensely funky. Post-Galaxy they would go on to record five more studio albums, plus a live album ending their run in 1985. The band would count bassist Akira Okazawa, saxophonist Mabumi Yamaguchi, guitarist Tsunehide Matsuki and drummer Yuichi Togashiki as its core members. All of whom would collate extensive discographies of their own in a staggering number of classics beyond just jazz music. Hiromasa “Colgen” Suzuki certainly needs little to no introduction being one of the most well known Japanese jazzmen you will encounter as you first dive into Japanese jazz history. Several of his well known albums includes High-Flying (1976) and Primrose (1978), both of which has been given the recent reissue treatment. While his participation in Jiro Inagaki’s Soul Media’s Funky Stuff (1975), Akira Ishikawa’s Back To Rhythm (1975) and Hiroshi Suzuki’s Cat (1976) counts as other solid moments from his career, not including his composition and arrangement work in popular media as well.