Kohsuke Mine in Out of Chaos (1974), Solid (1975), Sunshower (1976)

 

From discogs:

Japanese jazz and jazz-fusion saxophonist. Born on February 6, 1944 in Tokyo. Released his debut leader album in 1970 on japan jazz label Three Blind Mice (also TBM first release).

He left the clarinet program at his high school to turn pro in 1962 with the Blue Seven. In 1969 he earned accolades as a member of Masabumi Kikuchi 's quintet; a year later he released his first record, Morning Tide. He studied in the US for a time in the seventies, and returned to Japan in 1975 with an interest in fusion, recording Sunshower and other records as a founding member of Native Son. He worked with many jazz musicians, including Masabumi Kikuchi, Mal Waldron, Gil Evans, and Sadao Watanabe. He has more recently recorded with a standard quintet and with Masahiko TogashI's J.J. Spirits

Alias and bands: Kosuke Mine Quartet, Mine Kosuke Quintet, Kohske Mine, Native Son, Four Sounds

Recordings: Mine (1970); First (1970 with masabumi kikuchi,larry ridley,lenny mcbrowne ), Second Album (TBM 1972), Daguri (1973), Yellow Carcass in the Blue feat. Kimiko Kasai (TBM 8), Out of Chaos (1974), Solid (1975), Sunshower (East Wind 1976), Major to Minor (1993), Duo (Verve 1994), In a Maze (Verve1995), Balancez (1997), Rendez Vous (2004), Killing Floor (2004), Plays Standards (2008), With Your Soul (2011) + LPs from band Native Son (1978 onwards) and Four Sounds (90')

In his discography he appears in multiple forms or groups making it hard to discern what albums were released in the magical fusion period of roughly mid seventies, nonetheless these 3 that I found are quite impressive. As one might expect from the paucity of tracks on each album (typically 3-4) there is a lot of that improvisation typical of true boredom oops sorry I meant to say, true jazz. 

There is quite a bit of fusionary exploration but also some laid back meditative stuff with those long melodic sax lines that recall old movies like Taxi Driver.

I was a little worried about the track called Sunshower which so often is a cloying ballad type of representation but his shows some really dissonant funky riffs and intense energy with the synths shimmering a la Herbie Hancock adding that lovely summer sound (which we are so missing at this time in the Northern section of this spheroidal planet):

Note from this particular release page that the track was written by Kohsuke.