Real name: 古澤良治郎 (Furusawa Ryojiro)

Effective period / Period of releases: 1976 - 1987

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 Yosuke Yamashita, Sadao Watanabe, Fumio Itabashi, Yuji Imamura, Shigeharu Mukai, and numerous others. Has also worked with singers including Mikami Kan and Maki Asakawa.