Toshinori Kondo

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Toshinori Kondo (December 15, 1948 in Ehime Prefecture) is an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter. He resides in Tokyo, New York City, and Amsterdam.

He attended Kyoto university in 1967, and became close friends with percussionist Tsuchitori Toshiyuki. In 1972 the pair left university, and Toshiyuki went on to work with Peter Brook, while Kondo joined Yosuke Yamashita. In 1978 he moved to New York, and began performing with Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Eraldo Bernocchi amongst others. A year later he released his first recording, and toured Europe with Eugene Chadbourne, and collaborated with European musicians such as Peter Brotzman. Returning to Japan, he worked with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kazumi Watanabe, and Herbie Hancock. In the mid-1980s he began focussing on his own career, blending his avant-garde origins with electronic music, and has collaborated with numerous musicians around the world since then. In 2002 he worked on an international peace festival in Hiroshima after being approached by the Dalai Lama about organizing one. He is a former member of Praxis.

Kondo cooperated with Bill Laswell to make the album Inamorata in 2007.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 64216828 LCCN: nr91002194 ISNI: 0000 0000 8143 8645 GND: 134431987 BNF: cb14194343t NDL: 00149183

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Name	Kondo, Toshinori
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Short description	Japanese musician
Date of birth	December 15, 1948
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