Platinum (Casiopea album)

Platinum is the 17th album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1987. The album featured a cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Water"--a song originally written by Paul Simon.

Personnel
CASIOPEA are
 * Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA ISSEI MODEL, FRETLESS GUITAR), Acoustic guitar (D'AGOSTINO GUITAR)
 * Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (YAMAHA DX-7, KX-88, TX-816, QX-1, KORG DSS-1, DSM-1, SG-1, ROLAND D-50, SBX-80 & Acoustic Piano)
 * Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass (YAMAHA TETSUO MODEL, BB-5000, Kramer Electric Bass)
 * Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000 Series, PTT-1, PMC-1, RX-5, AKAI S-900, ZILDJAN CYMBALS, SIMMONS SDS-V)

Additional Musicians
 * Yukou Kusunoki - Lead Vocal on A2, B1, B5, C9
 * Djavan - Vocal on A4
 * Background Vocal on A2, A5, B1 - Cedric Samson, Dina Miller, Amanda Blue, Issei Noro, Yukoh Kusunoki
 * Background Vocal on A1 - Issei Noro, Yukoh Kusunoki
 * Background Vocal on B4 - Issei Noro, Tetsuo Sakurai, Minoru Mukaiya, Yukoh Kusunoki
 * Steve Thornton - Latin Percussion on A3, B3, B5
 * Earl Gardner - Trumpet on A5, B5
 * Alex Foster - Alto sax on A5, B5
 * Lenny Pickett - Tenor sax, Baritone sax on A5, B5
 * Horns Arrangements - Issei Noro, Lenny Pickett
 * Additional Synthesizer & Programing on B1 - Andy Heermans

Production

 * Producer - Issei Noro, Shunsuke Miyazumi
 * Engineer - Andy Heermans, Les Brockman
 * Assistant Engineers - Mark Partis, Bryan Rutter
 * Mixing engineer - Andy Heermans


 * Executive producer - Katsuki Hagiwara, Shinichi Toyama
 * Production management - Masato Arai
 * Management - Osamu Takagi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Maruichi


 * Art Direction Design and Illustration - Mitsuo Katsui
 * Visual Supervisor - Masahiro Tomioka, Miyuki Sawa