*indicates album in my collection
Toshiyuki Daitoku
Snapdragon (1977)
Skifflin' (1981)
Jam Trip Stop!! Hibarikun! (1983)
Toshiyuki Daitoku and De Cat: The Urashiman (1983)
Toshiyuki Daitoku and De Cat: Jam Trip Heavy Metal L-Gaim (1984)
Toshiyuki Daitoku and De Cat: Jam Trip Gu-Gu (1984)
Toshiyuki Daitoku, Naoki Kitajima: Jam Trip (1985)
Jun Fukamachi
(Member of Keep. Died 2010)
Introducing Jun Fukamachi (1975)*
21st Century Band: Rokuyu (1975)*
Spiral Steps (1976)*
Crystal City (1977)
Evening Star (1977)*
Triangle Session (1977)
The Sea Of Dirac (1977)*
Second Phase (1977)*
On The Move (1978)*
Live (1978)*
Fantastic Suite: A Dream On a Spring Night (1978)*
Riverside (1979)
Wonderland (1980)
Jun Fukamachi and The New York All Stars Live (1978)
Quark (1980)*
Fusion Synthesizer (1980)
The Soundtrack Mishione (1980)
Remember to Remember (1983)
Daisy Chain (1983)
Yellow Moon (1984)
Jun Fukamachi Meets Takashi Sato (1986)
Spiral Steps (1992)
Variation of Variation (1996)
Midnight Dive (1998)
Civilization (1999)
Takehiro Honda
(keyboard player with Sadao Watanabe, 1973 to 1977, and Native Son, 1979 to 1987. Died 2006)
What’s Going On (1973)*
It’s Great Outside (1978)*
Reaching For Heaven (1978)
Masaru Imada
Green Caterpillar (1975)*
Shigeko Toya and Masaru Imada: She Cries (1978)
4 Trombones with Masaru Imada: Super Trombone (1980)
Andalusian Breeze (1980)*
Carnival (1981)*
Blue Marine (1982)*
A Day In Paradise (1983)*
Rivage (1986)
Smile For You (1986)
Akira Inoue
Prophetic Dream (1982)
Seaside Lovers (1983)
Hirotaka Izumi
(former keyboard player with T-Square. Died 2021)
Amoshe (1998)
6 to 10 Morning (2002)
14 to 18 Afternoon (2002)
18 to 22 Evening (2002)
22 to 26 Midnight (2002)
Hirotaka Izumi and Mitsuru Sutoh (as Hiromitsu): 6 on 224 (2014)
Hirotaka Izumi and Mitsuru Sutoh (as Hiromitsu): Wide and Full (2016)
Hirotaka Izumi and Friends: Unforgotten Saga (2022)
Keizoh Kawano
(keyboard player with T-Square from 2004 to 2019)
Dreams (2011)
Best Friends (2022)
Himiko Kikuchi
(female keyboard player)
Don't Be Stupid (1980)*
Flashing (1981)
All Right (1982)*
Woman (1983)*
Reverse It (1984)*
Himiko The Best: Refrain (1984)*
All Things In Nature (1985)
Feels So Good: Himiko The Besty Vol. 2 (1986)
Flying Beagle (1987)*
Sevilla Breeze (1988)
Masabumi Kikuchi
(died 2015)
Poo-Sun (1970)
All About Dancing Mist (1971)
Kochi: Wishes (1976)*
One-Way Traveller (1980)*
Susto (1981)*
Naoki Kitajima
Naoki Kitajima and Flash: Jam Trip (1984)
Naoki Kitajima and Flash: Wing-Man (1984)
Izumi "Mimi" Kobayashi
(female singer/keyboard player)
Izumi Kobayashi and Flying Mimi Band: Sea Flight (1978)*
Izumi Kobayashi and Flying Mimi Band: Orange Sky Endless Summer (1978)*
Coconuts High (1981)
Nuts, Nuts, Nuts (1982)*
Tropicana (1983)
Ai Kuwabara
(female mainstream jazz pianist)
with Steve Gadd and Will Lee: Somehow, Someday, Somewhere (2017)
with Steve Gadd and Will Lee: Live at Blue Note Tokyo (2019)
Norio Maeda
(died 2018)
The Star Troupe (1977)
Happy Tomorrow Soundtrack (1977)
Sound In Victron (1980)
Mikio Masuda
Trace (1974)*
Mickey's Mouth (1976)*
Moon Stone (1977)
Corazón (1978)
Goin' Away (1979)
Silver Shadow (1980)
Mickey Finn (1981)
Chi Chi (1982)
Keiko Matsui
(wife of shakuhachi player Kazu Matsui)
A Drop of Water (1986)*
Under Northern Lights (1988)*
No Borders (1990)*
Night Waltz (1991)*
Cherry Blossom (1992)*
Doll (1994)*
Sapphire (1995)*
Dream Walk (1996)*
Collection (1997)*
Full Moon and the Shrine (1998)*
Live (1999)*
Whisper From the Mirror (2000)*
Hidamari No Ki (2000)*
Glances of the Past (2001)*
Deep Blue (2001)*
Live in Tokyo (2002)
The Ring (2002)*
Spring Selection (2003)*
White Owl (2003)*
The Piano (2003)*
Wildflower (2003)*
The Very Best of (2004)*
Walls of Akendora (2004)*
Keiko Matsui and Kazu Matsui: The Stone Monkey (2005)*
A Gift of Love (2005)
Compositions (2005)
Moyo/Heart and Soul (2007)*
The Best of (2009)*
The Road (2011)*
Bob James, Keiki Matsui: Altair and Vega (2012)*
Soul Quest (2013)*
Live in Tokyo (2015)*
Journey to the Heart (2016)*
Echo (2019)*
Naoya Matsuoka
(died 2014)
Naoya Matsuoka and His All Stars: Joyful Feet (1977)*
Seffanie De Praia (1978)*
Daybreak (1979)*
Kaleidoscope (1979)*
Naoya Matsuoka and Wesing: Fiesta (1979)
Naoya Matsuoka and Wesing: Majorca (1979)
Naoya Matsuoka and Wesing: The Wind Whispers (1979)
Naoya Matsuoka and Wesing: Son (1980)
Naoya Matsuoka and Wesing: Live At Montreux Festival (1980)
Naoya Matsuoka/Hidefumi Toki: Pacific Jam (1980)*
Mash (1981)*
Naoya Matsuoka and Wesing: Danzon (1981)
Naoya Matsuoka and Wesing: The Show (1981)
Naoya Matsuoka and Wesing: The September Wind (1982)
Fall On The Avenue (1982)
Welcome (1983)
A Farewell To The Seashore (1983)
Long For The East (1984)
Splash and Flash (1985)
Watermelon Dandies (1986)
To Sunday Island (1987)
Majestic (1988)
Songs And Days (1989)
Now's The Time (1989)
Time Passing (1990)
June, July, August -Summer Pieces (1990)
Play 4 You (1990)
Dance Upon A Time (1992)
Mineral (1993)
Find Venus (1994)
Coelacanth Dream (1996)
Emerald (1997)
The Earth Beams (1999)
Un Jour… (2001)
An Affair To Remember (2002)
Sincerely (2005)
Minoru Mukaiya
(keyboard player with Casiopea from 1977 to 2006)
Welcome to Minoru's Land (1985)
Tickle the Ivory (1993)
Soichi Noriki
Noriki (1983)
Dream Cruise (1984)
Just! (1987)
with Fukui: Crescent (1989)
Soichi Noriki with Special Guest Sadao Watanabe: Saudade (2019)
Akira Onozuka
(keyboard player with Dimension from 1992 to 2019 and formerly Source from 1997 to 2000)
Chinita (2004)
Rera (2010)
Kanto (2015)
Kiyomi Otaka
(keyboard player with all-female duo Kiyo Sen)
Third Hand (1998)*
Ambition (2000)
Out Of Sight (2001)*
Paragraph (2002)
Frames (2004)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
(well known for synth work and as a composer of movie soundtracks)
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Kazumi Watanabe: Tokyo Joe (1978)*
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Kakutougi Session: Summer Nerves (1979)*
Masanori Sasaji
Hot Taste Jam (1980)
Hell-ter Skeltor (1980)
Masanori Sasaji and L.A. Allstars: Birdland (2000)
Hiroshi Sato (also Satoh)
(Died in 2012, aged 65)
Supermarket (1976)*
Time (1977)*
Orient (1979)*
Hiroshi Sato Featuring Wendy Matthews: Awakening (1982)*
Sailing Blaster (1984)*
Sound of Silence (1986)*
Future File (1987)*
Aqua (1988)*
Touch the Heart (1989)*
Good Morning (1990)*
Self Jam (1991)*
Happy and Lucky (1993)*
All of Me (1995)*
Oracle (1996)*
That's All Right (2003)
Amazing (2004)
Amazing Vol. II (2006)
Masahiko Satoh
All-In, All-Out (1979)*
Masahiko Satoh And Medical Sugar Bank: MSB (1980)
Masahiko Satoh And Medical Sugar Bank: MSB Two (1981)
Masahiko Satoh Featuring Eddie Gomez and Steve Gadd: As If ... (1985)
Masahiko Satoh Featuring Eddie Gomez and Steve Gadd: Amorphism (1986)
Satoru "Salt" Shionoya
(keyboard player with Four of a Kind)
Salt (1993)
Salt II (1995)
Salt III (1997)
88 +Infinity (1998)
Wishing Well (1998)
Pianizmix (2001)
with Salt Band: Live! Live! Live! (2002)
3! (2003)
Arrow of Time (2013)
Hiromasa Suzuki
(died 2001)
Rock Joint Cither – Silk Road (1973)
Hiromasa Suzuki and Jiro Inagaki: By the Red Stream (1973)
High-Flying (1976)*
Colgen World (1976)
Skip Step Colgen (1977)*
Primrose (1978)*
Hiromichi Tsugaki
Personal Call (1984)
Akira Wada and Hiromichi Tsugaki – A Point Of Blue (1991)
Chikara Ueda
(died 2017)
Funpico (1978)
Disco Emabassy/Tropico (1978)
Chikara Ueda and the Power Station: Bos and Boz (1979)
Chikara Ueda and the Power Station: Flying Easy (1980)
Chikara Ueda and the Power Station: Sunlight Whisper (1981)
Chikara Ueda and the Power Station: Mr. (1981)
Chikara Ueda with New Herd: Herdland (1981)
Chikara Ueda and the Power Station: Cara de Piedra (1982)
Hiromi Uehara
(female keyboard player)
Another Mind (2003)
Brain (2004)
Spiral (2005)
As Hiromi's Sonicbloom: Time Control (2007)
As Hiromi's Sonicbloom: Beyond Standard (2008)
Place to Be (2009)
As The Trio Project: Voice (2011)
As The Trio Project: Move (2012)
As The Trio Project: Alive (2014)
As The Trio Project: Spark (2016)
Spectrum (2019)
As Hiromi The Piano Quintet: Silver Lining Suite (2021)