Naniwa Express (ナニワエキスプレス, also written as 浪花エキスプレス) was a Japanese jazz fusion group active from 1977 to 1986.
According to The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz it was "one of the most successful jazz fusion bands in Japan".
[1] The group was founded by Ko Shimizu and Kazuhiko Iwami, with Kiyoshi Kamada on drums in the early years; Kenji Nakamura joined in 1978.
The group traveled to the US in 1979 and returned in 1980; Rikiya Higashihara and Makoto Aoyagi joined in 1981.
Limited reunion touring and recording occurred in the 2000s aswell as multiple gigs in the 2010s and 2020s.