Isao Suzuki cut Three Cushion in 1981, deep into the run that made him one of the most recorded bassists in Japanese jazz. The playing is looser and funkier than the Three Blind Mice sessions that built his name, with electric bass pushing the rhythm section toward groove while the horns keep one foot in hard bop. King Records brings it to vinyl for the first time, mastered from the original tapes and pressed in Japan. For anyone who wore out Blow Up, this is the next room in the same house.