Ryo Kawasaki

Ryo Kawasaki was a pioneering, award-winning jazz guitarist who is also well-known as a software engineer and inventor. As a musician, he was instrumental in the musical development and global spread of jazz-rock fusion. On the technical side, he collaborated with the Korg and Roland companies to create the guitar synthesizer. His album Ryo Kawasaki & the Golden Dragon Live was among the first wave of all-digital recordings. He also created the early Kawasaki Synthesizer for the Commodore 64. Kawasaki delivered the jazz fusion classics Juice and Eight Mile Road in 1976, as wel...