Ishikawa began his music career with Shin Matsumoto and New Pacific.
In the following years he toured with his own formations like Akira Miyazawa Modern Allstars and Toshio Hosaka.
From the late '60s, he recorded under his own name, releasing Soul Session (1969) and The Gentures in Beat Pops (1970), with, among others, Hiromasa Suzuki, Kiyoshi Sugimoto and Masaoki Terakawa.
With his band Count Buffaloes, the jazz-rock oriented album Electrum was out in 1970,[1] followed by Drums Concerto (1971), African Rock (1972), Uganda (1972) and Get Up!
He also worked with Yoshiko Goto, Koichi Oki, Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Our Time, 1974) and Akio Sasaki (Berklee Connection, 1980) in the 1970s.