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Tomas Fujiwara

Tomas Fujiwara was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of seven, he fell in love with music while listening to the classic drum battle record, Rich vs. Roach. After two years of studies with Joyce Kauffman, Tomas began an eight-year course of study with legendary drummer and educator, Alan Dawson. He has worked as a leader of and composer for various ensembles, as a sideman, as a composer for theatre, film, and dance, and as a teacher and clinician. With "a quiet energy that propels" (All About Jazz) and a style that is "both volatile and watchful" (New York Times), Tomas' "alert drumming has propelled some excellent ensembles on the new-music landscape" (New York Times). His current projects include: Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up, Taylor Ho Bynum / Tomas Fujiwara Duo (True Events, 482 Music, 2007, Upcoming release on Nottwo Records), The Thirteenth Assembly ((un)sentimental, Important Records, 2009), Taylor Ho Bynum Trio and Sextet (The Middle Picture, Firehouse 12, 2007, Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths, hatOLOGY, 2008, and Double Trio with the Stephen Haynes Trio, Engine Records, 2009), Matana Roberts' Mississippi Moonchile, Coin Coin, and Quartet (The Calling, Utech, 2006), Ideal Bread (Ideal Bread, KMB Jazz, 2008), The Throes (The Throes, CIMP, 2009), Matt Bauder's Day In Pictures, Positive Catastrophe (Garabatos Volume 1, Cuneiform Records, 2009), Red Baraat, Soo's Collage (Soo's Collage, Audioguy, 2006), Matt Welch's Blarvuster, Exegesis, and Aji No Moto. Tomas has performed at venues and festivals across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East including The Moers Festival, Jazz Em Agosto, Tampere Jazz Happening, Rochester Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Suoni Popolo Festival, Urlichsberg Festival, Taktos Festival, Umbrella Festival, and Vision Festival
About Ghosts

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Full of Neon; Carved From; Eventidal; Absinthian; About Ghosts; Amaranthine;
Polyhedral; Endmost.
For These Streets

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Swimmers; Nocturno, 1932; Scratching the Surface of a Dream; Migration; Speeding Blots of Ink; Streets; And So On; The Break Had Not Come; Rose; Late June.
Cecilie Strange, Martin Kuchen, Lina Allemano & Sheila Jordan

by Maurice Hogue
This show touches on Scandinavian artists with new releases--Swedish saxophonist Martin Kuchen and an expanded Angles (now up to 11 members), the fast-rising Lightning Trio from Norway, and Danish saxophonist Cecilie Strange. There are tributes to the recently passed--the most amazing Sheila Jordan and tubaist Joseph Daley. Plus, previews of upcoming releases by Toronto trumpeter Lina ...
Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends

by Troy Dostert
Solo recordings, at least when they feature instruments other than piano or guitar, can be a challenge even for the most committed jazz listeners. The excitement generated by the dialogue of multiple instrumentalists is, of course, missing, and even the most talented artists can have trouble sustaining one's interest for an entire album. Such releases can ...
New Music From Irabagon, Atzmon, Farnsworth & More

by Bob Osborne
A varied selection of new releases interspersed with tracks from Ivo Perelman's six volume set The Art of Improv focuses on the importance of improvisation in jazz. Playlist Jon Irabagon's PlainsPeak Tiny Miracles (at a Funeral for a Friend)" from Someone to Someone (Irabbagast Records) 00:00 Ivo Perelman, Karl Berger, Gerald Cleaver Part 1" ...
John O’Gallagher, Ivo Perelman, Jon Irabagon & Tomas Fujiwara

by Maurice Hogue
Three of today's premier saxophonists share this edition's spotlight, as all have new releases--John O'Gallagher, Ivo Perelman & Jon Irabagon. O'Gallagher, now living in Portugal, reunites with guitarist Ben Monder on his new Ancestral and pulls off a first for master drummers Billy Hart and {{m: Andrew Cyrille who had never played together. Perelman, on the ...
Jazz em Agosto 2025

by Stefano Merighi
Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also ...
Jazz em Agosto 2025

by Stefano Merighi
Jazz em Agosto Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona, Portogallo 1-10 agosto 2025 Malgrado la onda de calor" portoghese stia sfiorando la capitale, Lisbona è al solito pacifica nel suo tran tran saturnino, anche se il turismo invadente della Baixa ha già trasformato certo non in meglio la sua fisionomia. Ma ...
Terry Callier, Tobias Meinhart, and The Thing

by Jerome Wilson
This episode features jazz hybrids by Terry Callier, Tone Forest, and The Thing as well as purer genre sounds from the likes of Melissa Aldana, Tobias Meinhart, and Mose Allison. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...