Toshinori Kondo

Toshinori Kondo 近藤 等則 Kondō Toshinori 15 December 1948 17 October 2020 was a Japanese avantgarde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter trumpeter whose daring instinct and deep expressive resources slashed through a spectrum of experimental and ambient music A trailblazing figure in his native Japan Kondo earned much of his reputation while based in Amsterdam or New York City He was a soughtafter collaborator in free jazz locking horns with the incendiary German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and courting revelation with other avantgarde luminaries like English guitarist Derek Bailey and Dutch drummer Han Bennink Kondo also thrived in electroacoustic settings where groove was paramount whether leading his own groups like Toshinori Kondo IMA on a range of projects with bassistproducer Bill Laswell or in a joint effort with DJ Krush notably on the mid1990s triphop album KiOku