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Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalos
12+ albums
Psychedelic RockjazzProgressive rockStoner Rock
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Akira Ishikawa (石川 晶 Ishikawa Akira 1934-2002) was a Japanese drummer and bandleader born on November 10th 1934 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Ishikawa began his music career with Shin Matsumoto and New Pacific. In the following years he toured with his own formations including Akira Miyazawa Modern Allstars and Toshio Hosaka. In later years he played with Toshiyuki Miyama and his band New Herd; 1964/65 he did recordings with Miyamas Modern Jazz Highlights and Modern Jukebox. From the late '60s, he recorded LPs under his own name as Soul Session (1969) and The Gentures in Beat Pops (1970), with, among others, Hiromasa Suzuki, Kiyoshi Sugimoto and Masaoki Terakawa. With his band Count Buffaloes, the jazz-rock oriented album Electrum was out in 1970, [1] followed by Drums Concerto (1971), African Rock (1972), Uganda (1972) and Get Up! (1975). He also worked with Yoshiko Goto, Koichi Oki, Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Our Time, 1974) and Akio Sasaki (Berklee Connection, 1980) in the 1970s. In the field of jazz he was involved between 1964 and 1980 in 14 recording sessions. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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