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Dave Fiuczynski: Jazz Punk

by John Sharpe
February 1, 2000

Listening to Jazz Punk is a lot like viewing modern art. Some will get it, many won’t. Is electric guitarist David Fiuczynski a.k.a.“Fuze” a ground breaking visionary or just a pretentious show-off? Depending on the listener, this ten-track CD presents enough evidence to support both theories. Fiuczynski opens Jazz Punk with a raucous reading of Pat Metheny’s lovely “Bright Size Life" that I’m sure even its author wouldn’t recognize. The Jimi Hendrix classic “Third Stone From The Sun" seems to ...

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Dave Fiuczynski: Jazz Punk

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2000

Electric guitarist David Fiuczynski a.k.a. “Fuze” takes his unique stylistic approach into the next—dare we say millennium?—along with enviable and easily identifiable chops on Jazz Punk. Here, Fuze, along with drummer Zach Danziger and bassist Tim Lefebvre, perform a meltdown version of Pat Metheny’s memorable composition titled “Bright Size Life,” which is the title of the album that launched Metheny onto the jazz scene back in the ‘70s. On this piece Fuze’s trademark style comes to the forefront, as the ...