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Toshinori Kondo

Needless to say, like many avant-garde experimenters and musical iconoclasts, Kondo’s early musical influences were largely straight-ahead jazz, especially hard bop. Certainly, the name of his university music group, the Funky Beaters, pretty reeks of hard bop attitude, particularly if one subscribes to the idea how the nickname “bop” originated …

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