Naoya Matsuoka (1937-2014) is the outrun jazz fusion you've been looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEf4OKheNc
according to an incredibly comprehensive Outrun/Sega AM2 blog Matsuoka's oeuvre literally inspired Outrun's music:
https://reassembler.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-best-outrunners-who-made-outrun.html
(seriously, click around this blog, a decade+ of fantastic research awaits)
got there via the blogger commenting on this also-interesting Eurogamer article about artifacts discovered while moving Sega's longtime HQ:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-10-tales-from-inside-studio-128-sega-am2s-top-secret-studio
very very amused that this advertising stunt got sabotaged by enterprisng folks who saw all that high end tech being wasted on marketing gimmicks and knew they could put it to far better use.
Like the one done by a norweigan softdrinks company, which was outfitted with all sorts of gps tracking and radar and identification gubbings, lots of high end tech inside the giant soft drink bottle...
...which had its electronics stolen by pirates before it finished its five month journey
i am now reading the wiki article on messages in bottles and... i gotta tell you
some of these entries are... kinda wild. i mean the vast majority are literally either professional or amateur scientists doing it out of curiousity or research, or just average folks going "hey this might be fun, let's toss this message out there, see who reads it, maybe it'll never be found i dunno!" Some are genuinely sad and tragic. A couple are hilarious though
beds changed, clothes washed and dried, bins taken out and changed, cats fed, washing up done, cooking done, food eaten, ebay answered.
old bedding just needs putting in the drier, clean clothes need putting in the actual wardrobe as opposed to the floordrobe, and uh... hm. been a busy housework day today.
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.