Toshinori Kondo
Composer
1948 –
Who is Toshinori Kondo?
Toshinori Kondo is an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter. He resides in Tokyo, New York City, and Amsterdam.
He attended Kyoto university in 1967, and became close friends with percussionist Tsuchitori Toshiyuki. In 1972 the pair left university, and Toshiyuki went on to work with Peter Brook, while Kondo joined Yosuke Yamashita. In 1978 he moved to New York, and began performing with Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Eraldo Bernocchi amongst others. A year later he released his first recording, and toured Europe with Eugene Chadbourne, and collaborated with European musicians such as Peter Brotzman. Returning to Japan, he worked with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kazumi Watanabe, and Herbie Hancock. In the mid-1980s he began focussing on his own career, blending his avant-garde origins with electronic music, and has collaborated with numerous musicians around the world since then. In 2002 he worked on an international peace festival in Hiroshima after being approached by the Dalai Lama about organizing one. He is a former member of Praxis.
Kondo cooperated with Bill Laswell to make the album Inamorata in 2007.
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- Born
- Dec 15, 1948
Imabari - Also known as
- Toshinory Kondo
- Kondo, Toshinori
- Nationality
- Japan
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on July 23, 2013
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