Profile No. JA-130 In Memoriam · 1948–2017

Tsunehide Matsuki

Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar — Japanese — B: August 8, 1948, Tokyo, Japan — D: June 18, 2017

Last updated October 21, 2026

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Tsunehide Matsuki (松木恒秀, Matsuki Tsunehide in Japanese order) was a Japanese guitarist, arranger and producer, born in Tokyo on 8 August 1948 and passed away on 18 June 2017 at the age of 68. In Japan he is remembered first as one of the busiest studio guitarists of the 1970s and 1980s, a sound on records by Tatsuro Yamashita, Mariya Takeuchi, Minako Yoshida and Taeko Ohnuki. The part of his career that sits closest to jazz is just as long: a place in the Shinjuku and Roppongi Pit Inn circuit from 1968, years in Jiro Inagaki's Soul Media and in Hiromasa Suzuki's Colgen Band and The Players, and records with Toots Thielemans, George Otsuka, Yasuko Agawa and Sadao Watanabe.

He heard records by Charlie Parker and Miles Davis at a friend's house as a young teenager, bought a Teisco guitar, took lessons, and by 16 was playing in amateur bands. He then led a group called The M and played in Kiyoshi Tanaka's Jr. Boys. In 1968 he joined Jiro Inagaki's Big Soul Media, and that year he made his first appearance on the stage of Shinjuku Pit Inn, the Tokyo jazz club he kept returning to for decades. His earliest credits on Discogs come from the early 1970s: Hiro Yanagida's Hiro (URC, November 1972), on which he is one of four electric guitarists alongside Ken Yajima, Kiyoshi Sugimoto and Masayoshi Takanaka; Tatsuya Takahashi's jazz-rock set The Rock Seasons (Express, March 1973); and, in 1973, Inagaki and Soul Media's By The Red Stream and In The Groove for Nippon Columbia.

The mid-1970s made him a first-call session player. He is the harmonica and rhythm guitar on Kiyoshi Sugimoto's jazz-funk date Our Time, recorded at Nippon Columbia's No. 1 Studio in Tokyo on 28 December 1974 and 10 and 28 January 1975, and the guitarist on the Mighty Salad Syndicate's Soul On! (Victor, 1974). From 1975 he was on Minako Yoshida's records, and through Yuji Ohno's You & Explosion Band he became, in the words of Japanese press retrospectives, the guitar sound of the Lupin III television series, playing as well on the film scores for The Inugami Family (1976) and Proof of the Man (1977) and the Proof of the Man album (Atlantic, 1977). He first appeared on a Tatsuro Yamashita album with Spacy (1977), and he was the main guitarist on the double live album It's a Poppin' Time (1978).

The band closest to his own sound was Hiromasa "Colgen" Suzuki's. Japanese press accounts describe the Colgen Band as a unit that mostly backed singers and played film music, and Matsuki is the electric guitarist on Suzuki's Skip Step Colgen (Toshiba, 1977) with the bassist Akira Okazawa. Taking cues from Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, Weather Report and Stuff, the group turned into The Players: Suzuki on keyboards, Matsuki, Okazawa, the drummer Yuichi Togashiki and the saxophonist Mabumi Yamaguchi. Their first album as The Players, Galaxy, was recorded at CBS Sony Studio in Tokyo in April 1979. Wonderful Guys followed in 1980 with Terumasa Hino on trumpet and Janice Pendarvis on vocals, then Madagascar Lady (1981), Space Travel (1982), Jack-A-Dandy (1983), Up To You (1984) and Live (1985). In 1981 and 1982 The Players were regulars on Tamori's Nippon TV show Konya wa Saiko!, which made the group's name known well beyond the jazz audience.

Some of his most explicitly jazz-world records date from 1978 to 1980. On the CBS/Sony guitar showcase New York (21 November 1978) he shares the billing with seven other guitarists, including Masaki Matsubara, and contributes his own composition and arrangement "Hymn to Stuff". Kaleidoscope (Warner Bros., 25 September 1979) is billed to the pianist Naoya Matsuoka, the harmonica player Toots Thielemans and Matsuki himself, and has him on guitar on all five tracks, with Kiyoshi Sugimoto among the other guitarists, Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami on drums and a horn section of Hidefumi Toki, Yasuaki Shimizu and Shigeharu Mukai. In 1980 he played electric guitar on George Otsuka's Maracaibo (Trio Records), a date with the Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous and the Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, and he is on Toots Thielemans's Apple Dimple (Better Days) the same year.

He was also a regular guitarist for jazz singers. He is credited on Yasuko Agawa's Journey (1980, where he is also one of several arrangers) and Night Line (1983, where he and the keyboardist Soichi Noriki share a sound-producer credit), and the Tsunehide Matsuki Group is the backing band on four tracks of her Lady September (1985). Other singer dates include Kimiko Kasai's Tokyo Special and Love Celebration (both 1977), Salena Jones's Stormy With Luv (1980) and Melodies of Love (1981), Nancy Wilson's Keep You Satisfied (Interface, 1985) and Kimiko Itoh's Standards My Way (1996). Japanese reports of his career add that he played in the bands of Terumasa Hino and Sadao Watanabe; a Discogs track credit places him on electric guitar on two pieces of Watanabe's Good Time For Love (WEA, 1986). Japanese accounts also say that Ryuichi Sakamoto was a member of the Matsuki Tsunehide Band, which he led at Roppongi Pit Inn.

From 2004 he supervised the records of the singer Michiko Takada, playing guitar and blues harp on Night Buzz (2004), Talea Dream (2005) and Tokyo Girls Talk (2008) and arranging or producing on the latter two. The band he led in later years, What is HIP?, brought together Ponta Murakami on drums, the bassist Kenji Takamizu and the keyboardist Soichi Noriki; the same three players are on Night Line in 1983. He stopped performing for a time in 2012, appeared at the concert marking the 50th anniversary of Pit Inn in December 2015, and in 2016 arranged for Mariya Takeuchi and recorded with What is HIP?. His death on 18 June 2017 was announced three days later on the band's official Facebook page. Arrangements were kept private, in keeping with his own wishes, and the radio station SBS broadcast a memorial special for him on 23 July 2017.

Real Sound's retrospective on his career describes a guitarist who was never flashy: finger-driven, mellow in his phrasing, and soulful and bluesy enough that the writer compares him to the American session player Eric Gale. Gale was a member of Stuff, one of the bands Matsuki and Hiromasa Suzuki looked to when they turned the Colgen Band into The Players. In a PHILE WEB interview about his Pit Inn years he talks about the rise of jazz-rock and fusion in Japan, with Miles Davis's electric period and Weather Report as touchstones.

His identity is genuinely split, and it is worth saying so plainly. By volume, his name appears most often in pop and city-pop credits, where his unhurried, blues-based fills were a studio signature for Yamashita, Ohnuki and Yoshida. The groups he belonged to were jazz-fusion and jazz-funk groups (Jiro Inagaki and Soul Media, Hiromasa Suzuki's Colgen Band and The Players, George Otsuka's Maracaibo, his own Matsuki Tsunehide Band), the albums credited to those groups are all classified as jazz on Discogs, and the German Wikipedia, citing the Tom Lord jazz discography, counts him on 37 jazz recording sessions between 1973 and 1998. Japanese Wikipedia files him with Japanese fusion musicians. That is the reading this profile follows: a fusion and jazz-funk guitarist who also made his living in pop studios.

Key Recordings

Galaxy (1979, Openskye 25AP 1011, The Players with Hiromasa Suzuki) - The first record by the fusion band: Suzuki's compositions and arrangements for a rhythm section of Matsuki, Akira Okazawa and Yuichi Togashiki, with Mabumi Yamaguchi on saxophones and a brass section, recorded in April 1979. YouTube - Galaxy, full album Listen
Kaleidoscope (1979, Warner Bros. M-11005W, Naoya Matsuoka, Toots Thielemans and Tsunehide Matsuki) - A five-track jazz-funk date billed to the three of them, with Matsuki's guitar on every track and Thielemans's harmonica on two. YouTube - "Dried Flower and Dried Love" · Discogs - Kaleidoscope Listen · Buy
New York (1978, CBS/Sony 25AH 503, with Kazumasa Akiyama, Kenji Omura, Shigeru Suzuki, Kazuo Takeda, Masaki Matsubara, Kimio Mizutani and Masaru Yajima) - A guitar showcase on which each of the eight players arranges one piece; his is "Hymn to Stuff", which he also composed. Apple Music - New York
Maracaibo (1980, Trio Records PAP-9214, George Otsuka's Maracaibo) - Four long pieces, including the 16-minute "Maracaibo Cornpone", with Miroslav Vitous and Nana Vasconcelos. Apple Music - Maracaibo Listen
In The Groove (1973, Nippon Columbia NCB-7021, Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media) - The turn from psychedelic jazz-rock to soul-jazz, with Matsuki on electric guitar. Spotify - In The Groove · Apple Music - In the Groove Listen
Our Time (1975, Columbia KZ-7505, Kiyoshi Sugimoto) - A jazz-funk date with Matsuki on rhythm guitar, and on harmonica on "Take My Blues!!". Apple Music - Our Time Listen · Buy
Journey (1980, Invitation VIH-28022, Yasuko Agawa, billed Yasuko, Love-Bird) - Standards sung over fusion arrangements, with Matsuki on guitar and as one of the arrangers. Spotify - Journey Listen
The Rock Seasons (1973, Express ETP-92004Z, Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union Orchestra) - A gatefold jazz-rock set of sixteen pieces with Matsuki as guitarist. YouTube - The Rock Seasons Listen

Full Discography

Tsunehide Matsuki (松木恒秀) - Full Discography

Japanese electric and acoustic guitarist, arranger and producer, born in Tokyo on 8 August 1948 and passed away on 18 June 2017. Discogs artist 623505. A leader's own discography in the usual sense does not exist for him: he recorded as a member of bands and as a first-call sideman, and the only releases that carry his name on the cover are two co-billed albums, Kaleidoscope (1979) and the multi-guitarist New York (1978). Everything below is therefore organised by the role he held on each record.

Name variations on record: Tsunehide Matsuki, Matsuki Tsunehide, T. Matsuki, H. Matsuki, Hide Matsuki, Tsunehide (Hidebo) Matsuki, 松木恒秀, and the misspellings 松元恒秀, 松本恒秀, 松木恒彦 and Tsunehide Matsumoto.

Group affiliations: The Players, Maracaibo, Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media, Colgen Band, Eiji Arai & The Beatsounds, Mighty Salad Syndicate (マイティ・サラダ・シンジケート), Tsunehide Matsuki Group, What is HIP?.

Co-billed releases (his name on the cover)

Album	Year	Label	Co-billed with	Notes	Listen	Buy
Kaleidoscope	1979	Warner Bros. Records, M-11005W	Naoya Matsuoka, Toots Thielemans	Released 25 September 1979. Five tracks: "Fall Forever" (11:06), "Dried Flower & Dried Love" (9:37), "Ivory Islands" (4:38), "Cadillac" (6:26), "Fancy Prance" (10:34). Matsuoka (piano, keyboards, composer, arranger), Thielemans (harmonica, tracks A1 and B3), Matsuki (guitar, all tracks), Kiyoshi Sugimoto (guitar), Hiroshi Yasukawa (lead guitar), Takayuki Hijikata (guitar), Getao Takahashi and Michio Nagaoka (bass), Shuichi Murakami (drums), Pecker (percussion), Hidefumi Toki (soprano saxophone), Yasuaki Shimizu (tenor saxophone), Shigeharu Mukai (trombone), Hiroshi Sukegawa (synthesizer).	YouTube - "Dried Flower and Dried Love"	Amazon
New York	1978	CBS/Sony, 25AH 503	Kazumasa Akiyama, Kenji Omura, Shigeru Suzuki, Kazuo Takeda, Masaki Matsubara, Kimio Mizutani, Masaru Yajima (Ken Yajima)	Released 21 November 1978. Eight tracks, each by a different guitarist-arranger; Matsuki's is "Hymn To Stuff" (A4, 6:47), credited to him as composer and arranger. Reissued by GT Music (MHCL 30127) on 24 July 2013 with track-by-track personnel in the booklet.	Apple Music - New York	Amazon

Band and group albums (as a member)

Album	Year	Label	Personnel	Notes	Listen	Buy
In The Groove (Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media)	1973	Nippon Columbia, NCB-7021	Tsunehide Matsuki (electric guitar); Jiro Inagaki and band	Ten tracks; the group's turn from psychedelic jazz-rock to soul-jazz.	Spotify · Apple Music	Amazon
By The Red Stream (Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media, with Hiromasa Suzuki)	1973	Nippon Columbia, NCB-7019	Tsunehide Matsuki (guitar); Hiromasa Suzuki (composer, arranger, conductor); Jiro Inagaki and band	Jazz-rock big-band set composed, arranged and conducted by Suzuki.	not found	not found
Soul On! (Mighty Salad Syndicate)	1974	Victor, TLP-592	Tsunehide Matsuki (guitar); Takeru Muraoka (tenor and soprano saxophones, flute); Shunzo Sunahara (baritone saxophone); Jun Fukamachi (keyboards); Akira Okazawa and Isao Eto (bass); Shuichi Murakami and Akira Ishikawa (drums)	Jazz-funk. Reissued on CD as Victor CD4B-5076.	not found	not found
Galaxy (The Players with Hiromasa Suzuki)	1979	Openskye, 25AP 1011	Hiromasa Suzuki (piano, Rhodes, synthesizers, composer, arranger, conductor); Tsunehide Matsuki (electric guitar); Akira Okazawa (electric bass); Yuichi Togashiki (drums); Mabumi Yamaguchi (soprano and tenor saxophones); Tadaomi Anai (congas, percussion); brass and the Tomato Strings	Eight tracks from "Galaxy" to "Misty Moonlight". Recorded and mixed at CBS Sony Studio, Tokyo, in April 1979.	YouTube - full album	Amazon
Wonderful Guys (The Players)	1980	Openskye / CBS/Sony, 25AP 1757	Hiromasa Suzuki (piano); Tsunehide Matsuki (electric and acoustic guitars); Akira Okazawa (electric bass); Yuichi Togashiki (drums); Mabumi Yamaguchi (soprano and tenor saxophones); Tatsuji Yokoyama (percussion); Terumasa Hino (trumpet); Janice Pendarvis (vocals)	Nine tracks, "Second Sight" to "Pearceful Sleep". Recorded and remixed at CBS Studio, Tokyo, in November and December 1979. Reissued on SACD by Sony Records in 2001.	not found	Amazon
Maracaibo (Maracaibo, led by George Ohtsuka)	1980	Trio Records, PAP-9214	George Ohtsuka (drums); Tsunehide Matsuki (electric guitar); Miroslav Vitous (electric bass, synthesizer); Nana Vasconcelos (percussion, voice); Mabumi Yamaguchi (tenor saxophone); Hiroshi Irie and Toshiyuki Sekine (synthesizers)	Four pieces: "Mucarabu", "American Tango", "Spring 80" and "Maracaibo Cornpone" (16:37).	Apple Music	Amazon
Digital Explosion (Yuri Tashiro Piano Trio / Eiji Arai & The Beatsounds)	1980	Eastworld, EWJ-80181	Tsunehide Matsuki (guitar, side B tracks 1 to 3) with Eiji Arai & The Beatsounds	Split album; Matsuki appears on the Beatsounds side.	not found	not found
Madagascar Lady (The Players)	1981	Openskye / CBS/Sony, 28AH 1293	Hiromasa Suzuki (piano, electric piano, synthesizer); Tsunehide Matsuki (electric guitar, voice, whistle); Akira Okazawa (electric bass, vocals); Yuichi Togashiki (drums, timpani); Mabumi Yamaguchi (soprano and tenor saxophones); Robert Thomas Jr. (congas, bongos, percussion)	Matsuki is also credited with vocals and whistle.	not found	not found
Space Travel (The Players)	1982	CBS/Sony, 28AH 1469	Hiromasa Suzuki (piano, synthesizers, producer); Tsunehide Matsuki (electric guitar); Akira Okazawa (electric bass, vocals); Yuichi Togashiki (drums, percussion); Masaki "Bob" Saito (tenor and soprano saxophones); Kenji Nishiyama (trombone); Susumu Kazuhara (trumpet)	A single "Space Travel / Murmur" credited to The Players & Hiromasa Suzuki also appeared on streaming services in July 2026.	YouTube	not found
Jack-A-Dandy (The Players)	1983	CBS/Sony, 38DH 60	Hiromasa Suzuki (piano, synthesizer, producer); Tsunehide Matsuki (electric guitar); Akira Okazawa (electric bass, vocals); Yuichi Togashiki (drums); Masaki "Bob" Saito (saxophone)	Lyrics by Linda Hennrick.	YouTube - full album	not found
Up To You (The Players)	1984	CBS/Sony, 28AH 1792	Hiromasa Suzuki (piano, arranger); Tsunehide Matsuki (guitar, vocals); Akira Okazawa (bass, vocals); Yuichi Togashiki (drums); Masaki "Bob" Saito (saxophones, arranger); Seiichi Nakamura (saxophones, bass clarinet)		not found	not found
Live (The Players)	1985	CBS/Sony, 28AH 1918	Hiromasa Suzuki (keyboards, synthesizer); Tsunehide Matsuki (guitar); Akira Okazawa (bass); Yuichi Togashiki (drums); Masaki "Bob" Saito and Seiichi Nakamura (tenor saxophones)		not found	not found
Lady September (Yasuko Agawa, backed by the Tsunehide Matsuki Group)	1985	Invitation, VDR-1087	Tsunehide Matsuki Group (backing band, tracks 1, 2, 8 and 9); Matsuki also credited with chorus	Agawa's album; the Tsunehide Matsuki Group is Discogs entity 4721856.	Apple Music	Amazon

Producer and arranger credits

Album	Year	Label	Artist	Notes	Listen	Buy
Night Line (ナイト・ライン)	1983	Invitation, VIH-28139	Yasuko Agawa	Matsuki plays guitar and shares the sound-producer credit with the keyboardist Soichi Noriki. Rhythm section: Kenji Takamizu (bass), Shuichi Murakami (drums), Noriki (keyboards, synthesizer).	Apple Music	Amazon
How About This	1986	Invitation, VIH-28272	Tamori	Arranger and sound producer; credited with guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass, piano, synthesizers and Linn Drum programming.	not found	not found
Night Buzz	2004	Sony Records Int'l, SICP 10012	Michiko Takada	Guitar and blues harp.	not found	not found
Talea Dream	2005	Sony Records Int'l, SICL 125	Michiko Takada	Arranger and supervisor; guitar and blues harp.	not found	not found
Tokyo Girls Talk	2008	Sony Records Int'l, SICL 179	Michiko Takada	Sound producer and arranger; guitar and blues harp. Reissued by Great Tracks in 2023.	Apple Music	not found

Selected sideman credits: jazz, fusion and vocal-jazz dates

Album	Year	Label	Leader or billed artist	Notes	Listen	Buy
Hiro	1972	URC, URG-4017	Hiro Yanagida	One of four electric guitarists, with Ken Yajima, Kiyoshi Sugimoto and Masayoshi Takanaka. Released 25 November 1972.	not found	not found
The Rock Seasons	1973	Express, ETP-92004Z	Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union Orchestra	Guitar; arrangements by Kiyoshi Yamaya. Released 5 March 1973.	YouTube - full album	not found
The Brilliant Dimension Of Terry	1973	King Records, SKA63	Takeshi Terauchi	Electric guitar on side B, tracks 1 to 6.	not found	not found
Our Time	1975	Columbia, KZ-7505	Kiyoshi Sugimoto	Rhythm guitar, and harmonica on "Take My Blues!!". Recorded at Nippon Columbia No. 1 Studio, Tokyo, on 28 December 1974 and 10 and 28 January 1975; with Hiromasa Suzuki, Akira Ishikawa, Motohiko Hino and Shuichi Murakami.	Apple Music	Amazon
Singer Lady	1975	Columbia, JDX-7072	Hatsumi Shibata	Electric and acoustic guitar.	not found	not found
Skip Step Colgen	1977	Toshiba, LF-91028	Hiromasa Suzuki	Electric guitar in the Colgen New Band, with Akira Okazawa (electric bass), Yasushi Ichihara (drums), Takeru Muraoka (saxophone) and Mabumi Yamaguchi (tenor saxophone). Recorded in Tokyo in March and April 1977.	not found	Amazon
Tokyo Special	1977	CBS/Sony, 25AP 730	Kimiko Kasai	Guitar.	not found	not found
Vibration = Love Celebration	1977	CBS/Sony, 06SP 186	Kimiko Kasai	Guitar.	not found	not found
Wings Of Love	1977	Victor, SGS-1	Yasunori Soryo	Guitar.	not found	not found
Secret Love	1977	Toshiba, TP-60182	Mitsuo Hagita	Guitar.	not found	not found
Proof Of The Man = 人間の証明	1977	Atlantic, K-10004A	Yuji Ohno & His Project	Film soundtrack; guitar.	not found	not found
L.A. Master	1978	Express, ETP-80020	Kiyoshi Sugimoto	Electric guitar.	not found	not found
Shining Wave	1979	Far East, ETJ-85005	Anli Sugano	Electric guitar, with Hiromasa Suzuki on keyboards.	YouTube - full album	not found
Triton = トリトン	1979	Kaeru Production Company Records, LRs-642	Hiromasa Suzuki	Electric guitar.	Apple Music (billed 鈴木宏昌 & コルゲン・バンド)	not found
あるものは愛だけ...。	1979	Express, ETP-72318	Hiroshi Okazaki	Electric guitar.	not found	not found
Journey = ジャーニー	1980	Invitation, VIH-28022	Yasuko Agawa (billed Yasuko, Love-Bird)	Guitar, and one of several arrangers.	Spotify	Amazon
Apple Dimple = 真夜中のカウボーイ'80	1980	Better Days, YX-7256-ND	Toots Thielemans	Guitar.	not found	not found
Stormy With Luv	1980	JVC, VIJ 6304	Salena Jones	Guitar.	not found	not found
Melodies Of Love	1981	JVC, VIJ-28007	Salena Jones	Guitar.	not found	not found
Keep You Satisfied	1985	Interface, YF-7102	Nancy Wilson	Guitar.	not found	not found
Rivage	1986	Polydor, H33P 20087	Masaru Imada	Guitar on track 1, "Melodious Summer".	not found	not found
Good Time For Love	1986	WEA, 253 037-1	Sadao Watanabe	Electric guitar on "All The Way" and "Loving You Is Easy" (side B, tracks 3 and 4).	not found	not found
Melodies = メロディーズ	1986	Invitation, VIH-28265	Yasuko Agawa	Electric guitar.	not found	not found
Just!	1987	Who Ring, RT28-5014	Soichi Noriki	Guitar on "Moon Dance".	not found	not found
10th Avenue	1988	Invitation, VDR-1540	Yasuko Agawa	Arranger of "Lover, Come Back To Me!".	not found	not found
Double Face	1989	Om, M32D-1004	Tomohito Aoki	Guitar on "Forgive Me - Risa Interlude".	not found	not found
Standards My Way	1996	One Voice, VACV-1019	Kimiko Itoh	Guitar.	YouTube - full album	not found

Pop, rock, film and other session credits

Chronological list of the remaining releases on which Discogs credits him, most of them pop, city-pop, kayokyoku and soundtrack sessions.

1973: Bruce Bauer, Kids - Members Of Nature's Revival; Stage 101, ぼくら青春の日々; 岡沢章, ギリシャについて書かれた本; 小山恭弘と砂時計, 火の鳥 Vol.1; 井上陽水, 陽水ライヴもどり道.
1974: Chie, 23 - Twenty-Three Years Old; Joe, Joe; Various, Professional Series Vol.2 Hearing Test Record 2; Sonia Rosa With Yuji Ohno, Spiced With Brazil; 布施明, 古い上着をぬいで布施明の世界.
1975: 吉田美奈子, Minako; 佐井好子, 二十才になれば; 南沙織, 人恋しくて; 佐井好子, 萬花鏡.
1976: Makoto Kawaguchi, A Song for You; Minako Yoshida = 吉田美奈子, Flapper = フラッパー; Kyohei Tsutsumi And His 585Band, Hit Machine; Various, Listen! V; Mieko Hirota, Mieko In Person; Minako Yoshida, Minako II - Live At Sun Plaza Hall October 3, 1975; Mieko Hirota, My Funny Valentine; 庄野真代, るなぱあく; 森山良子, 日付のないカレンダー; 岡崎友紀, 明日のスケッチ; 杉浦よしひろ, 街; ふくやまゆきお, 雨宿り.
1977: 惣領智子 = Tomoko, City Lights By The Moonlight; Nanako, Funny Walkin'; Rajie = ラジ, Heart To Heart = ハート・トゥ・ハート; Mieko Hirota, In My Feeling; 大野雄二, James Dean = ジェームス・ディーン; 木之内みどり, Je T'aime = ジュ・テーム; ミッキー・カーチス, 山下敬二郎, 平尾昌晃, Rock'n Roll 甦るロカビリー3人男!; 山下達郎, Spacy; Taeko Ohnuki, Sunshower; 吉田美奈子 = Minako Yoshida, Twilight Zone; 小林啓子, ちょっと気分をかえて; 庄野真代, ぱすてる 33 1/3; 大貫妙子, サマー・コネクション; 越路吹雪 = Fubuki Koshiji, 一寸おたずねします = Chotto Otazune Shimasu; 小林啓子, 気分を出してもう一度; 佐井好子, 胎児の夢.
1978: Mariya Takeuchi, Beginning = ビギニング; 芹沢廣, Changes; 牧ミユキ, Fly Like A Bird; Tatsu Yamashita, Go Ahead!; Tatsu Yamashita = 山下達郎, It's A Poppin' Time; Yoichi Takizawa = 滝沢洋一, Leonids No Kanata Ni = レオニズの彼方に; You & Explosion Band = ユー&エクスプロージョン・バンド, Love Saves The Earth = 愛は地球を救う; Yasuko = ヤスコ, Love-Bird = ラブ・バード; You & The Explosion Band = ユー&エクスプロージョン・バンド, Lupin The 3rd (Original Soundtrack) = ルパン三世・2 オリジナル・サウンドトラック; Issei Okamoto = 岡本一生, Moonlight Singing = ムーンライト・シンギィング; You & The Explosion Band = ユー&エクスプロージョン・バンド, Original Soundtrack From Lupin III = ルパン三世オリジナル・サウンドトラック; 佐藤奈々子, Pillow Talk; The Kingtones & Marie, Resurrect -銀河からの帰還-; Yukihiro Takahashi, Saravah!; Hi-Fi Set = ハイ・ファイ・セット, Swing = スウィング; Starship Construction, Symphonic Space Fantasy "Choral '79"; 東海林修, The Cockpit = ザ・コクピット; 大貫妙子, じゃじゃ馬娘; 大場久美子 = Kumiko Ohba, カレンダー = Calendar; 岡本和男, ムーンライト・シンギィング; Dove, 八点鐘; 石黒ケイ, 女は女.
1979: 兵藤未来, Hyodo Miki; Joan Shepherd, I Love Being A Woman; Nanako Sato, Kissing Fish; Tatsu Yamashita, Moonglow = ムーングロウ; Ann Lewis, Pink Pussycat; Ann Lewis, Pink Specials; Mariya Takeuchi, University Street = ユニヴァーシティ・ストリート; 大場久美子 = Kumiko Ohba, さよならありがとう; 大場久美子 = Kumiko Ohba, カーテンコール = Curtain Call; 五十嵐麻利江, 海を感じるとき; 石黒ケイ, 潮騒.
1980: Mieko Hirota, 76/45; Keiko Goto = 後藤啓子, Aimez-Vous Sagan = サガンはお好き; Norio Maeda and his Grand Orchestra, Coffee Time Popular Collection; Nobuyuki Shimizu, Corner Top; Will Lee, The New Yorkers, I Believe In Love. = 愛のサスペンス; Minako Yoshida = 吉田美奈子, Monochrome = モノクローム; Yuji Ohno, Sound Adventure Act.1; 石黒ケイ, アドリブ; 服部克久, 幸福号出帆オリジナル•サウンド•トラック = The Horizon Of Happiness; 河島英五 = Kawashima Eigo, 文明 I.
1981: Mieko Hirota, 76/45 For VIP; Marlene = マリーン, Just Like First Love = ファースト・ラヴのように; Minako Yoshida, Monsters In Town; 石橋和子, Nice To Meet You; Super Guitar Ensemble, Oh Carol; Jake Concepcion, Pieces Of Love; Tamori, Radical Hystery Tour; Super Trumpet Ensemble, Rhythm Of The Rain; 西城慶子, トゥワイライト・サイレンス = Twilight Silence.
1982: Hi-Fi Set, 1&2; Alessandra Mussolini = アレッサンドラ・ムッソリーニ, Amore = アモーレ; Hiroshi Sato Featuring Wendy Matthews = 佐藤博フィーチャリングウェンディ・マシューズ, Awakening = アウェイクニング; Tatsuro Yamashita, For You; Penny, Heart Full Of L.A. Mind; Minako Yoshida = 吉田美奈子, Light'n Up = ライトゥン・アップ; Takako Mamiya = 間宮貴子, Love Trip = ラブ・トリップ; Naomi Akimoto = 秋本奈緒美, The 20th Anniversary; Harumi Kaneko, The Name Is Harumi; 東海林修, The かぼちゃワイン音楽集; Keiko Takeshita, What Ever Happened To Keiko?.
1983: Jake H. Concepcion, "J"; Hi-Fi Set, I Miss You; Minako Yoshida, In Motion; Tatsuro Yamashita = 山下達郎, Melodies; Hitomi Tohyama, Next Door; 葛城ユキ, Runner; Tatsuhiko Yamamoto, Sudden Wind; Keiko Mizukoshi, Ten; Anri = 杏里, Timely!! = タイムリー.
1984: Taeko Ohnuki = 大貫妙子, Best 12 = ベスト１２; Taeko Ohnuki, Grey Skies / Sunshower; Malta, Midnight Train; Mariya Takeuchi = 竹内まりや, Re-Collection; Malta, Sweet Magic; Mariya Takeuchi = 竹内まりや, Variety = ヴァラエティ; 東海林修 & Progressive Party, キマイラ吼.
1985: Various, Digital Jazz Standards Collection 50 = デジタル・ジャズ・スタンダード名曲全集 50; Ohnuki Taeko = 大貫妙子, Mignonne; Hiroshi - Satoh, This Boy; 松山千春 = Chiharu Matsuyama, 明日のために = Ashita No Tameni.
1986: Various, Denon Jazz Sampler Volume 1; Teressa Jonette, Special Effect.
1987: Malta, My Ballads; Gwinko, Yesterday Today Forever; Mariya Takeuchi = 竹内まりや, 全アルバム集 (Special CD Box).
1988: Yasuko Agawa, "Night Line" On Stage; Hiroko Yakushimaru = 薬師丸ひろ子, Sincerely Yours = シンシアリー・ユアーズ.
1989: Hiroshi Sato, Touch The Heart; Toki Club, Tweener.
1991: Taeko Ohnuki, The Very Best Of 大貫妙子; すぎやまこういち, Koji Kondo, スーパーマリオワールド = Super Mario World.
1992: Yoshitaka Minami ＝南佳孝, Bottom Line; Yoshitaka Minami, New Standard; Mariya Takeuchi = 竹内まりや, Quiet Life = クワイエット・ライフ.
1993: Malta, Best One; Taito Zuntata = タイトー Zuntata, Night Striker = ナイトストライカー.
1994: Eri Hiramatsu, 7 Days Girl; Chikuzen Satoh, Something Sad.
1995: Chikuzen Satoh, Cornerstones; 大野雄二, Proof Of The Wild; Yasuko, Love-Bird = Yasuko Agawa = 阿川泰子, Soft Wings ~ Yasuko Love-Bird On Strings = ソフト・ウイングス.
1996: 水野正敏, 青木智仁, 江川ほーじん, 岡沢章, 加部正義, 清水興, 富倉安生, 低音横綱.
1997: Tatsuro Yamashita, Greatest Hits! Of.
1999: Kimiko Kasai, My Favorite Songs Vol. II ~~Emotion~~; 佐井好子, 『萬花鏡』+『密航』.
2005: Keiko Lee, Voices Again -The Best Of Keiko, Vol.2.
2007: Yuji Ohno = 大野雄二, Space Kid = スペース・キッド.
2008: Maaya Sakamoto, トライアングラー.
2009: Miki Matsubara = 松原みき, Pocket Park.
2010: Masako Miyazaki, Get My Wave.
2013: Lily = りりィ, Magenta = マジェンタ; 泉谷しげる, 光と影.
2014: 山下達郎, Christmas Eve (2014 version); 竹内まりや, Trad = トラッド.
2015: Hitomi Tohyama, Light Mellow Hitomi Tohyama.
2016: Beers, Mistress + 3; 吉田美奈子 = Minako Yoshida, Town / 恋は流星.
2018: Yukihiro Takahashi, Saravah Saravah!.
2019: 竹内まりや, Turntable = ターンテーブル.
2021: 服部克久 / Selected By Muro, 「幸福号出帆」より二人だけの海 / ラヴステッピン.
2022: かとうはつえ = Hatsue Katoh, Cascade.
2023: Yuji Ohno, Touch - The Sublime Sound of Yuji Ohno; Mariya Takeuchi = 竹内まりや, 君の居場所 (Have A Good Time Here).
2024: Linda Carriere = リンダ・キャリエール, Linda Carriere = リンダ・キャリエール; 当山ひとみ, Pretty Penny (Hitomi Tohyama The Best & Rare).
2025: Yasuko Agawa = 阿川泰子, Light Mellow Deluxe.
Undated: Various, 広布に走れ (ポップス盤).

Matsuki is also credited on pressings of the You & The Explosion Band Lupin The 3rd soundtracks (1977 and 1978), which Discogs lists as unofficial releases.

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Personnel & Collaborations

Jiro Inagaki - saxophonist and leader of Soul Media; Matsuki joined the Big Soul Media in 1968 and is credited on guitar on By The Red Stream and In The Groove (both Nippon Columbia, 1973).
Hiromasa Suzuki - keyboardist and leader of the Colgen Band and The Players; Matsuki plays on Skip Step Colgen (1977), Galaxy (1979), Wonderful Guys (1980) and the other Players albums to 1985, and on Suzuki's Triton (1979).
Naoya Matsuoka - pianist; Kaleidoscope (1979) is co-billed to Matsuoka, Toots Thielemans and Matsuki.
Toots Thielemans - Belgian harmonica player; Kaleidoscope (1979) and his own Apple Dimple (Better Days, 1980).
Kiyoshi Sugimoto - guitarist; Our Time (1975), L.A. Master (Express, 1978) and Kaleidoscope (1979).
George Otsuka - drummer; Maracaibo (Trio Records, 1980).
Terumasa Hino - trumpeter; plays on The Players' Wonderful Guys (1980), and Japanese accounts also list Matsuki in his band.
Yasuko Agawa - singer; Journey (1980), Night Line (1983), Lady September (1985) and Melodies (1986).
Yuji Ohno - composer and pianist; the You & Explosion Band and Proof of the Man (Atlantic, 1977).
Tatsuya Takahashi - tenor saxophonist; The Rock Seasons (1973).
Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami - drummer; Kaleidoscope (1979), Our Time (1975) and Night Line (1983), and a member of What is HIP?.
Kimiko Kasai - singer; Tokyo Special and Love Celebration (both CBS/Sony, 1977).
Kimiko Itoh - singer; Standards My Way (One Voice, 1996).
Sadao Watanabe - saxophonist; electric guitar on "All The Way" and "Loving You Is Easy" on Good Time For Love (WEA, 1986).
Hidefumi Toki, Yasuaki Shimizu and Shigeharu Mukai - saxophonists and trombonist in the Kaleidoscope horn section.
Masaki Matsubara - guitarist; fellow contributor to the New York guitar album (CBS/Sony, 1978).
Anli Sugano - singer; Shining Wave (Far East, 1979).
Masaru Imada - pianist; guitar on "Melodious Summer" on Rivage (Polydor, 1986).
Akira Okazawa, Yuichi Togashiki and Mabumi Yamaguchi - bassist, drummer and saxophonist of The Players.
Soichi Noriki and Kenji Takamizu - keyboardist and bassist of What is HIP?, both on Night Line (1983).
Salena Jones and Nancy Wilson - American vocalists on whose Japanese-made albums he plays guitar (Stormy With Luv, 1980; Keep You Satisfied, 1985).
Tatsuro Yamashita, Mariya Takeuchi, Minako Yoshida and Taeko Ohnuki - the pop and city-pop artists whose studio bands he anchored from the mid-1970s.
Akira Okazawa - bassist in The Players beside Matsuki on Galaxy (1979); Matsuki was his guitar teacher at 19, plays guitar on Okazawa's 1973 album ギリシャについて書かれた本, and is the dedicatee of the 2025 Akira Okazawa Band album P.S. I Love You.
Akira Wada - guitarist and Prism co-founder; both are credited on guitar on Yukihiro Takahashi's Saravah! (1978), Matsuki on A2, A4, B1 and B2 and Wada on B2 and B3.
Takao Uematsu - harmonica on Kiyoshi Sugimoto's Our Time (Columbia, 1975), on which Uematsu plays saxophone.
Kazumasa Akiyama - fellow guitarist on New York (1978); the two are also credited together on Yasuko Agawa's Journey (1980) and Naomi Akimoto's The 20th Anniversary (1982).
Mabumi Yamaguchi - tenor and soprano saxophonist in The Players and on Skip Step Colgen (1977); both are also credited on Maracaibo (Trio, 1980).
MALTA - saxophonist; Matsuki plays electric guitar on tracks of his Sweet Magic (1984) and on track 7 of My Ballads (1987).
Toshiyuki Sekine - credited on synthesizer on Maracaibo (Trio Records, 1980), the George Otsuka group record on which Matsuki plays electric guitar.
Shigemichi Domoto - trombonist on By The Red Stream (1973), on which Matsuki plays guitar.
Takao Naoi - fellow studio guitarist; the two are credited together on Mieko Hirota's My Funny Valentine (1976) and a number of other 1970s sessions.