Ryojiro Furusawa

Japanese jazz drummer.
Born: 5 September 1945 in Sendai, Japan.
Died: 12 January 2011 in Tokyo. Japan (aged 65).
Furusawa began his professional career aged 24 in 1969, leading his own groups as well as playing as a sideman with [a=Yosuke Yamashita], [a=Sadao Watanabe], [a=Fumio Itabashi], [a=Yuji Imamura], [a=Shigeharu Mukai], and numerous others. Has also worked with singers including [a=Mikami Kan] and [a=Maki Asakawa].