Joe Harriott Quintet – Free Form (1961, Doxy) [vinyl] Joe McPhee – Nation Time (Bo’Weavil, 1971) [vinyl] Julius Hemphill – ‘Coon Bid’ness (Arista, 1975) [vinyl] Frank Lowe – Out Loud (Triple Point, 2014) [vinyl] Tomas Fujiwara & the Hook Up – After All Is Said (482 Music, 2015) Ahmed Abdullah – Life’s Force (About Time,
This past weekend, Cornelia Street Cafe hosted two significant record release concerts. On Friday, guitarist Mary Halvorson and bassist Stephan Crump teamed up with their Secret Keeper project to debut their second record, Emerge (Intakt). On Saturday, Tomas Fujiwara & the Hook Up (including Halvorson, Jonathan Finlayson, Brian Settles, and Michael Formanek) debuted their third
Tonight Tomas Fujiwara & the Hook Up perform the world premiere of music from the third record, After All Is Said, at Cornelia Street Cafe, 9 pm, 2 sets. Below is the fourth and final installment of an interview conducted with Tomas over the past few weeks. Interview Cisco Bradley: If you had to pick
Commitment (Will Connell, Jason Kao Hwang, William Parker, Zen Matsuura – The Complete Recordings 1981/1983 (No Business, 2010) Mikko Innanen with William Parker, Andrew Cyrille – Song for a New Decade (TUM, 2014) Harris Eisenstadt – Golden State II (Songlines, 2015) Kaze – Uminari (Circum-Libra, 2015) Billy Lester – Unabridged (Jujikaan, 2015) Simon Frick –
Part 3 of the April Artist Feature on Drummer/Composer Tomas Fujiwara Interview Cisco Bradley: I understand that you are both an avid basketball fan as well as a player of the sport. Do you absorb or incorporate any aspects of the rhythm or movement of the game into your music, compositions, or performance? Tomas Fujiwara:
Nate Wooley/Ken Vandermark – East by Northwest (Pleasure of the Text, 2014) Tim Daisy Trio – A Fine Day in Berlin (Relay, 2014) Han-earl Park, Catherine Sikora, Nick Didkovsky, Josh Sinton – Anomic Aphasia (SLAM Productions, 2015) Mike Pride Solo – Listening Party (Akord Records, 2015) Ted Byrnes/Michael Foster – Astringent (self-released, c. 2013) Pascal
