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by mg74 2422 days ago
hmm, can you share a good starting place for Japanese jazz fusion?
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YouTube led me to this. Was never a big jazz fan but was listening to some lofi Hip-Hop and this played. https://youtu.be/BFmH7moCL2c Hitoshi Suzuki - romance. After that I listened to the rest of his one and only album great stuff.
The short answer: click any of the links below and let the algorithm guide you.

The long answer:

Casiopea (https://youtu.be/vKOekWuzk3o) and T-Square (https://youtu.be/3p9L7CV-HcI) are the standard bearers of the genre.

Masayoshi Takanaka's An Insatiable High (https://youtu.be/9cuxrkZeai8) is one of those albums that the algorithm pushes on everyone, and for good reason. Extremely funky. The Rainbow Goblins (https://youtu.be/MzYD56hKF-8) is also impressive - a concept album based on a children's book. I'd recommend anything 1985 or earlier from Takanaka - after that, he starts to get a little cheesy.

Another personal favorite is Naoya Matsuoka. Everything that comes up when you search his name is great, so here's a live video that won't (unless you search the kanji): https://youtu.be/-yQv7_tK3X8

Other favorites:

Piper: https://youtu.be/sopcI4vTsuU https://youtu.be/x8NgdjffLIY

Makoto Matsushita: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP6GoSnDKGw&list=OLAK5uy_mS3...

AB's: https://youtu.be/bDaQw8Tw8Jg

Noriki: https://youtu.be/HdG-Xg2n108

Himiko Kikuchi: https://youtu.be/l_4WcHNjjV0

And some channels that post a lot of various j-fusion and city pop:

Xerf Xpec: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkfmbKrdAH3_NHkbAZhWqIw

Marcel the Drunkard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMLGyzBt5zkPqCLrF5l10Q

I'm surprised you didn't shoehorn Tatsuro Yamashita in despite your username, haha.
finally someone noticed! but they asked for fusion.