 This was followed by the 1976 jazz-fusion album "Mickey's Mouth".In the following years he also worked with Kosuke Mine, Hidefumi Toki, Takao Uematsu, Hiroshi Murakami, Kazumasa Akiyama, Kazumi Watanabe and Eri Ono.After moving to New York City in 1978, he created the album Corazón, and worked in NYC, notably with David Matthews.