Players with Colgen: Galaxy,1979, Wonderful Guys, 1980, etc. (7 albums)

Recall Hiromasa Suzuki with his Colgen Band?  It turns out this collective made a string of 7 fusion albums starting in 1979.  In fact the album from 1981 I posted from him earlier this year borrowed three tracks from the Players first release, possibly more.  I once again find myself in the position of having to thank the perceptive commenter who drew my attention to this fact in the earlier post.  Today, we can all thank him.  Especially since there is quite a riches of wonderful fusion to go through in these, overall, and unlike the previous post the quality does not decline precipitously.  Looking at what I've liked on my personal device (ipod classic number 6 so far in this lifetime, more in the afterlife) I can see that starting right out of the gate with 7-8 great tracks in the first 2 albums, we are only reduced to 4-5 great tracks by the end which came in the mid-eighties with the live album that basically just rehashed earlier hits.  And that's quite remarkable, as per the LPDP (Law of Post-70s Declining Progressiveness).  A very slow downslope for this artist.

Incidentally, I guess I didn't quote the Japanese wiki for mastermind keyboardist Suzuki's bio earlier.  In those days of course, so long long ago (last April) we didn't know about the wonders of machine learning and AI and the miracle of The Great Google's translation capabilities, which are such a miracle of software development-- Great God, please bless those blessed billionaires who rule us today, those four of them, blessed, blessed billionaires:

Hiromasa Suzuki (Hiromasa Suzuki, 1940 May 26 - 2001 May 21 ), the Tokyo Metropolitan born jazz pianist - composer - arranger . Since the nickname is "Korgen", the nickname is "Korgen".

And that's for sure.  Plus later the very interesting:

Dental born as the son of a physician , Keio University to go to, but the jazz piano and committed to, Masahiko Sato , Yuji Ono wins the name as "Keio trio" with. The nickname `` Korgen '' was originally from Sato, but Suzuki, who was called `` Second generation Colgen '' in a group that Sato came to the United States and participated in after that, was nicknamed `` Colgen '' one day it became established.

You know inevitably, I almost pray that 'deep learning' doesn't progress much beyond this point, where you can expect a combination of humour, poetry, and entertainment out of every translation: "was nicknamed colgen one day it became established."

Computer has no humour, however, at the end:

Although suffering from cancer, he once performed a “survival live” after surgery, but died on May 21, 2001. 
60 years old died.

Tragic.
Moving on to the music, the track called Unsweetened absolutely, again, rips it outta the ballpark for me (in the immortal words of my wife, "sometimes you never even make it inside that ballpark"):





And indeed we are outta the ballpark again for the second track of the second album called Wonderful Guys, lucky for me there's a hot dog stand right outside it, too bad no beer though:





I would really, really like to get inside the stands again, dying for a beer, but outta the ballpark for the intro to 8:30 off the Madagascar Lady collection:





And I will honestly say, the title of the album was so unpromising I was pretty sure I would hit disappointment avenue, which happens to be a dead end street, with a multitude of afro-rhythms and simple fuzak, but this was not meant to be.  The entire album is convincingly compelling, and it was released in 1981!  As if in a Kafka story, I find myself unable to find the entrance to the ballpark, although as I move on to the Space Travel album from 1982 with its unfortunate big band aspects and fuzak plus vocals, I'm back to sitting in the highest stands with cheap popcorn and some idiot just knocked over my plastic cup: