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Peter Brötzmann / Toshinori Kondo / Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link

Read "Complete Link" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 2, 2025

Complete Link offers classic Peter Brötzmann, albeit of a modern vintage. The German reed iconoclast combines with two Japanese peers, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and drummer Sabu Toyozumi for almost 70 minutes of fiery live action. Recorded in Japan in 2016, this is their first recording as a trio, although as pioneers in their respective countries, their paths have intersected numerous times in the past. Notably so in the case of Kondo who has acted as a livewire foil to Brötzmann ...

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Peter Brötzmann / Toshinori Kondo / Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link

Read "Complete Link" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 5, 2024

As the liner notes to Complete Link by Yoshiaki Kinno state, “In the 1960s, each of them [saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and drummer Sabu Toyozumi] was inspired by free jazz, practiced it themselves and met each other in the process of overcoming free jazz." That is indeed a bold statement. Did he mean to say they gained mastery of it? Defeated it? Or is he suggesting the three evolved apart from free jazz? Most likely Kinno ...

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Peter Brötzmann - Toshinori Kondo - Massimo Pupillo - Paal Nilssen-Love: Hairy Bones

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 12, 2010

Se non proprio figlio, Hairy Bones è quanto meno parente stretto del fu Die Like A Dog Quartet, formazione allestita per omaggiare la musica di Albert Ayler e responsabile di quattro dischi FMP registrati fra il '93 e il '99 (tutti ristampati di recente dalla Jazzwerkstatt in un pregevolissimo, e non troppo dispendioso, cofanetto). Medesima la line-up, il tandem nippo-teutonico formato da Peter Brötzmann e Toshinori Kondo, diversa la sezione ritmica: in black quella di allora, William Parker e Hamid ...