Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalo

Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes was the group of the Japanese jazz drummer Akira Ishikawa (1934-2002), who was born in Yokosuka. The band grew out of his earlier group the Gentures and played jazz-rock and fusion in the early 1970s. Ishikawa had come up through Shin Matsumoto's New Pacific and Toshiyuki Miyama's New Herd. The jazz-rock album Electrum (1970) featured Takeru Muraoka, Masahiko Satoh, Hiromasa Suzuki, Kiyoshi Sugimoto and Masaoki Terakawa. Uganda and African Rock both came out in 1972, followed by Back to Rhythm (1975), Get Up! and Okinawa.