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Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up: The Air Is Different
by Robert Bush
Boston-born and Brooklyn-based drummer Tomas Fujiwara has been stirring things up in the New York City creative music scene for some time now, working with a wide variety of players including cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and guitarist Mary Halvorson.His working ensemble, Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up, features Halvorson--one of the brightest voices in the new-music continuum to emerge in years--along with muscular bassist Trevor Dunn, tenor saxophonist Brian Settles and trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson.Fujiwara is an ...
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by Troy Collins
Dedicated to his grandparents and inspired in by part by family remembrances, The Air is Different is the second recording from Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up, following Actionspeak (482 Music), their impressive 2010 debut. The youthful drummer's flagship ensemble continues to explore the inroads made on its previous album, plotting a memorable course through Fujiwara's fully realized, nonlinear compositions.The quintet's lineup has barely changed since its inception four years ago, with bassist Trevor Dunn now filling Danton ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Brooklyn non è più solo un quartiere di New York; da qualche anno, jazzisticamente parlando, Brooklyn è un “suono". Si, è vero, le categorie valgono quel che valgono, e spesso servono solo per puntellare pensieri critici pericolanti. Ma persino i più distratti, all'alba del 2012, si saranno accorti che al di là dell'East River, di recente, c'è stato parecchio trambusto; e che un nutrito drappello di musicisti, una sorta di famiglia allargata, si riconosce ormai in un'estetica e in un ...
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