Ov er the past thirty years\, over twenty-five albums and hundreds of gigs in dozens of different bands\, drummer Tomas Fujiwara and cornettist Taylor Ho Bynum have developed one of the deeper levels of creative communication in the contemporary music scene – in groups under Fujiwara’s leadership l ike Triple Double and Shizuko\, ensembles led by Bynum including his Sexte t\, 9-tette\, and PlusTet big band\, and collective projects like Illegal Crowns (with Mary Halvorson and Benoit Delbecq) and the Thirteenth Assembl y (with Halvorson and Jessica Pavone). Throughout this history\, they’ve m aintained their duo\, which has released four albums: “True Events” (2007) \, “Stepwise” (2010)\, “Through Foundation” (2014)\, and “Notice” (2022).< /p>\n
Described as “a ubiquitous presence in the New York scene…an artis t whose urbane writing is equal to his impressively nuanced drumming\,” (P oint of Departure) Brooklyn-based Tomas Fujiwara is an active player in so me of the most exciting music of the current generation. He leads the band s Triple Double\, 7 Poets Trio\, and Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up\; is a m ember of the collective trio Thumbscrew (with Mary Halvorson and Michael F ormanek)\; has a collaborative duo with Taylor Ho Bynum\; and engages in a diversity of creative work with Anthony Braxton\, John Zorn\, Mary Halvor son\, Tomeka Reid\, Matana Roberts\, Taylor Ho Bynum\, Nicole Mitchell\, B en Goldberg\, Amir ElSaffar\, Benoit Delbecq\, and many others. In 2021\, he won the Downbeat Critics Poll for Rising Star Drummer\, and premiered t wo suites of new music as part of his Roulette Residency: “You Don’t Have to Try” (with Meshell Ndegeocello) and “Shizuko.” His most recent work is “Dream Up\,” a suite for percussion quartet\, commissioned by NYSCA and Ro ulette Intermedium. “Drummer Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance\, solid but ever shifting. His style is forward-driving but rar ely blunt or aggressive\, and never random. He has a way of spreading out the center of a pulse while setting up a rigorous scaffolding of restraint …A conception of the drum set as a full-canvas instrument\, almost orchest ral in its scope.” (New York Times)
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