TOSHINORI KONDO
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Of course, like many avant-garde experimenters and musical iconoclasts, Kondo's early musical influences were largely straight-ahead jazz, especially hard bop. Indeed, the name of his college band, the Funky Beaters, fairly reeks of hard bop attitude, especially if one subscribes to the theory that the nickname "bop" came from the sound of a policeman's nightstick giving a suspect a beating. Such was the atmosphere during this artist's college days, when an enormous upheaval took place in the society, fueled on by the radicalism of the '60s. His first love in jazz was Charlie Parker, but unlike many trumpet players, he did not choose one road or the other between the two brass stylists closely associated with him: Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Both trumpeters became almost equally grounding influences in his playing, which has always combined the dazzling, sometimes outrageous virtuosity of Gillespie with just about every aspect of
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Charged
Avant-Garde Jazz
1999
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Fukyo
Nu Jazz
2005
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Dream Space
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2016
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Israel
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
1995
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Zone Zero
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2015
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Loves Fuji
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2018
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5 elements
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2019
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