Tomas Fujiwara

Given birth to in Boston in 1977, Brooklyn-based drummer Tomas Fujiwara emerged through the early to mid-2000s like a valued sideman before forming his personal quintet, Tomas Fujiwara & the ATTACH, which gathered accolades for mixing influences such as for example Wayne Shorter, Taleb Kweli, and Me’Shell Ndegéocello using the experimental and unstable spirit from the 21st hundred years Brooklyn creative jazz picture. After learning for eight years with drummer and educator Alan Dawson in the Boston region, Fujiwara relocated to NY at age 17. His 1st performing encounters included a five-year stint starting around the change from the millennium using the off-Broadway display Stomp, but he also started appearing like a sideman on jazz recordings (e.g., Three Souls from the Adam Rafferty Trio in 2003) and relocating exploratory, exciting directions. Fujiwara created a particularly solid collaborative romantic relationship with New Haven, Connecticut-based cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, whose personal avant-leaning ensembles possess featured several best Brooklyn improvising music artists. Fujiwara first made an appearance with Bynum on two 2007 recordings, THE CENTER Picture from the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet (Firehouse 12) and Accurate Events from the Taylor Ho Bynum/Tomas Fujiwara Duo (482 Music). Through the pursuing years, the drummer made an appearance around the Bynum Sextet albums Asphalt Plants Forking Pathways (hatOLOGY, 2009), Obvious Range (Firehouse 12, 2011), and Navigation (Likelihood Abstracts X & XI) (Firehouse 12, 2013), as well as the Bynum/Fujiwara Duo record Stepwise (Nottwo, 2010). Fujiwara can be an associate of Positive Catastrophe, a ten-piece clothing co-led by Bynum and percussionist Abraham Gomez-Delgado and motivated by Sunlight Ra and Latin jazz; the group provides released two albums on Cuneiform, Garabatos Quantity One (2009) and Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo… (2012). Another musician with whom Fujiwara provides often proved helpful, guitarist Mary Halvorson, also frequently moves in the same innovative orbit as Taylor Ho Bynum; like Fujiwara, Halvorson can be a member from the Bynum Sextet, and along with Bynum and violist Jessica Pavone, the drummer and guitarist shaped the collective quartet the Thirteenth Set up, which has documented two albums for the key Information label, 2009’s (el)sentimental and 2011’s Place Immediate. Fujiwara, Halvorson, and Bynum also made an appearance as members from the Chicago-New York non-et Living by Lanterns, whose New Misconception/Old Science record — predicated on fragments of music documented by Sunlight Ra in 1961 — made an appearance on Cuneiform in 2012. In 2014 Cuneiform released another record offering Fujiwara and Halvorson, the eponymous debut of Thumbscrew, a collaborative trio also including veteran bassist Michael Formanek. Fujiwara initial assembled his ATTACH quintet in 2008, afterwards explaining the bandmembers as “a few of the most essential musicians in my own existence” — and provided most of Fujiwara and Halvorson’s documented appearances together in a variety of settings, it had been no surprise that this guitarist is at the lineup. Also offering tenor saxophonist Brian Settles, trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, and bassist Danton Boller, Tomas Fujiwara & the ATTACH released their debut recording, Actionspeak, on 482 Music this year 2010. Featuring Trevor Dunn on bass instead of Boller, the group’s sophomore recording, The Air DIFFERS, showed up (also on 482 Music) in 2012. The countless other projects where Fujiwara has performed like a collaborator or sideman are the Steve Lacy tribute music group Ideal Breads, the eight-piece “bhangra funk dhol ‘n’ brass” clothing Crimson Baraat, and saxophonist/clarinetist Matt Bauder’s acoustic jazz quintet.