I guess when it comes to applying the Big Band sheen onto kayo kyoku/J-Pop from the early 1980s onwards, the rhythm from Elbow Bones and the Racketeers' 1983 "A Night in New York" must have been the go-to thing. Mind you, that song really did provide for a melodically sumptuous evening in the Big Apple.
Singer-songwriter Masamichi Sugi（杉真理）has dipped into the jazz genre from time to time with songs like "Whiskey ga O-Suki deshou?" (ウィスキーが、お好きでしょ）for Sayuri Ishikawa（石川さゆり）. Plus, he apparently has given himself his own Big Band treatment with "Happy Ending", the final track on his December 1990 11th album "Wonderful Life".
With words and music by Sugi, that "A Night in New York" sensation is in "Happy Ending" and according to his lyrics, it looks like Christmas is present as well so I've put in that genre in Labels, too. That's all good since I've always thought that jazz and the Yuletide go well together. Aside from the lack of a synthpop aspect, there is something about "Happy Ending" that reminds me of what Kazuhiro Nishimatsu（西松一博）was doing on his "Bouekifu Monogatari"（貿易風物語）in 1985.
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