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
@gatewave jpop80ss barely has a fraction of what’s in that screenshot 😨
@noctilucent haha, my pleasure 🌠