Colgen World 2LP

Hiromasa Suzuki, the Japanese jazz pianist and arranger they called "Colgen," cut Colgen World in 1976 and built his name on it inside Tokyo's post-bop and fusion scene. He worked across his career alongside major names in Japanese jazz, Terumasa Hino and Masahiko Satoh among them. Universal Japan reissues it now on translucent yellow vinyl, a limited Record Store Day Black Friday run, and a solid way into a corner of Japanese jazz collectors already take seriously.