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Toshinori Kondo (近藤 等則, Kondō Toshinori, Ehime Prefecture, December 15, 1948 - October 17, 2020 ) was an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter.

Kondo 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. A year later he released his first recording, 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 focusing on his own career, blending his avant-garde origins with electronic music. In 2002, he worked on an international peace festival in Hiroshima after being approached by the Dalai Lama about organizing
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TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Fuigo From a Different Dimention album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fuigo From a Different Dimention
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1979
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 空中浮遊 (as Tibetan Blue Air Liquid Band) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
空中浮遊 (as Tibetan Blue Air Liquid Band)
Avant-Garde Jazz 1983
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo IMA :  大変 Taihen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo IMA : 大変 Taihen
Eclectic Fusion 1984
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: Metal Position album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: Metal Position
Eclectic Fusion 1985
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: コントン Konton album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: コントン Konton
Eclectic Fusion 1986
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo IMA : 337 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo IMA : 337
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1987
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & Tristan Honsinger ‎: This, That And The Other album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & Tristan Honsinger ‎: This, That And The Other
Avant-Garde Jazz 1987
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: Human Market album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: Human Market
Eclectic Fusion 1988
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Kondo • IMA : Tokyo Rose album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Kondo • IMA : Tokyo Rose
Eclectic Fusion 1990
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & IMA : Brain War album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & IMA : Brain War
Eclectic Fusion 1991
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: Red City Smoke album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: Red City Smoke
Eclectic Fusion 1993
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Touchstone album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Touchstone
Nu Jazz 1993
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Panta Rhei - An Alchaic Comedy In Chaos album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Panta Rhei - An Alchaic Comedy In Chaos
Avant-Garde Jazz 1994
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Tokyo Shadow [OST] album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tokyo Shadow [OST]
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1995
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo X DJ Krush ‎: 記憶 Ki-Oku album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Toshinori Kondo X DJ Krush ‎: 記憶 Ki-Oku
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1996
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Variations Of The Theme: The Divine Comedy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Variations Of The Theme: The Divine Comedy
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1997
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Charged album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Charged
Avant-Garde Jazz 1999
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo And Bill Laswell Featuring His Holiness The Dalai Lama : Life Space Death album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo And Bill Laswell Featuring His Holiness The Dalai Lama : Life Space Death
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2001
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Find A Planet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Find A Planet
Eclectic Fusion 2001
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Nerve Tripper album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nerve Tripper
Nu Jazz 2002
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Fukyo album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
Fukyo
Nu Jazz 2005
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Soft Touch album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Soft Touch
Nu Jazz 2005
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Hidachi Uma No Hone album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hidachi Uma No Hone
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2006
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Silent Melodies album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
Silent Melodies
Nu Jazz 2007
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Going Places... For Keith album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Going Places... For Keith
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2009
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Space Piligrimage album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Space Piligrimage
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Elements of Winter album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Elements of Winter
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo plays Standards : You don't Know What Love Is album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo plays Standards : You don't Know What Love Is
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2015
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Dream Space album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dream Space
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2016
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Blue in Amsterdam album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blue in Amsterdam
Nu Jazz 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Kondo • IMA 21 : Space Children album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kondo • IMA 21 : Space Children
Eclectic Fusion 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Tsunami Aquarium in Fukushima album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tsunami Aquarium in Fukushima
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Kondo-Ima 21 : Space Children album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kondo-Ima 21 : Space Children
Eclectic Fusion 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Lips & Wind = 唇に風 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lips & Wind = 唇に風
Eclectic Fusion 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Blow the Earth (India) album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Blow the Earth (India)
Nu Jazz 2019
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Flying Earth - Good evening, Mr​.​Space album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Flying Earth - Good evening, Mr​.​Space
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2019
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Born Of The Blue Planet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Born Of The Blue Planet
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Beyond Corona : Volume one album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beyond Corona : Volume one
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Beyond Corona : Volume Two album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beyond Corona : Volume Two
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Beyond Corona : Volume Three album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beyond Corona : Volume Three
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Beyond Corona : Volume Four (Dedicated to Kansai Yamamoto) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beyond Corona : Volume Four (Dedicated to Kansai Yamamoto)
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Beyond Corona : Volume Five album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beyond Corona : Volume Five
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Renzoku (Kondo / Kaiser / Goodman / Oswald) : Jump album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Renzoku (Kondo / Kaiser / Goodman / Oswald) : Jump
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2022

TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 EPs & splits

TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 China Boogie album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
China Boogie
Eclectic Fusion 1985
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Club New Light album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Club New Light
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1993
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Pikadon - Art Live In Tokyo / Kyoto 2005 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Pikadon - Art Live In Tokyo / Kyoto 2005
Avant-Garde Jazz 2005
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo | Michael Valentine West | Icostech : Kaza album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo | Michael Valentine West | Icostech : Kaza
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020

TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 live albums

TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Moose And Salmon (with Kaiser & Oswald) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Moose And Salmon (with Kaiser & Oswald)
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1978
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 The Last Supper album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Last Supper
Avant-Garde Jazz 1981
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo / Henry Kaiser / John Oswald ‎: Moose + album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo / Henry Kaiser / John Oswald ‎: Moose +
Avant-Garde Jazz 1982
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Death Is Our Eternal Friend album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Death Is Our Eternal Friend
Avant-Garde Jazz 1983
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Kondo • IMA : Kamikaze Blow album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kondo • IMA : Kamikaze Blow
Eclectic Fusion 1989
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Israel album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Israel
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1995
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Kobe 17.01.95 (aka Kobe [Live - 1995]) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kobe 17.01.95 (aka Kobe [Live - 1995])
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1996
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 The Warriors album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Warriors
Avant-Garde Jazz 2007
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Blow The Earth In Japan : The Kurushima Strait 来島海峡 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blow The Earth In Japan : The Kurushima Strait 来島海峡
Avant-Garde Jazz 2009
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Deeply Dreamed album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Deeply Dreamed
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 The War Fairy Tales = 戦争童話集 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The War Fairy Tales = 戦争童話集
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2014
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Free Electro LIVE 2003 - Emotion album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Free Electro LIVE 2003 - Emotion
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2014
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Blow the Earth in Japan 2011 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blow the Earth in Japan 2011
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Blow The Earth In Andes, part I album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blow The Earth In Andes, part I
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Blow The Earth In Himalaya And Alaska album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blow The Earth In Himalaya And Alaska
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Zone Zero album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Zone Zero
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Blow The Earth In Israel = 地球を吹く In Israel album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blow The Earth In Israel = 地球を吹く In Israel
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Blow The Earth In Japan 2009 = 地球を吹く In Japan 2009 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blow The Earth In Japan 2009 = 地球を吹く In Japan 2009
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Live at Hot Buttered Club album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at Hot Buttered Club
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2016
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Loves Fuji album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Loves Fuji
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Berlin Solo Live 1995 At Taheles album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Berlin Solo Live 1995 At Taheles
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Dalai Lama 14th Talks New World album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dalai Lama 14th Talks New World
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Resonating Lives : Blow the Earth in Naraha, FUKUSHIMA album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Resonating Lives : Blow the Earth in Naraha, FUKUSHIMA
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 5 elements album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
5 elements
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2019
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Aozora album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Aozora
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 KONDO・IMA21 : Typhoon 19 (LIVE) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
KONDO・IMA21 : Typhoon 19 (LIVE)
Eclectic Fusion 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Tokyo Meeting album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tokyo Meeting
Avant-Garde Jazz 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Santouka album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Santouka
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Back to Space album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Back to Space
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush, Bill Laswell, Hideo Yamaki : Tokyo Rotation 3 - Day 3 Set 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush, Bill Laswell, Hideo Yamaki : Tokyo Rotation 3 - Day 3 Set 2
Eclectic Fusion 2021
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & Toshi Tsuchitori – 1973 Live Concert Tokyo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & Toshi Tsuchitori – 1973 Live Concert Tokyo
Avant-Garde Jazz 2021
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush, Bill Laswell, Hideo Yamaki : Tokyo Rotation 3 - Day 3 Set 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush, Bill Laswell, Hideo Yamaki : Tokyo Rotation 3 - Day 3 Set 1
Eclectic Fusion 2021
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo, Kazutoki Umezu, Toshi Tsuchitori : Live Concert Tokyo 1974 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo, Kazutoki Umezu, Toshi Tsuchitori : Live Concert Tokyo 1974
Avant-Garde Jazz 2022
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Electric Trumpet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Electric Trumpet
Eclectic Fusion 2022
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Tony Buck : Eternal Triangle album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Tony Buck : Eternal Triangle
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2022

TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 re-issues & compilations

TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: God - Zilla Funk album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: God - Zilla Funk
Eclectic Fusion 1991
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: Taihen & Metal Position album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Toshinori Kondo & IMA ‎: Taihen & Metal Position
Eclectic Fusion 1992
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Once upon a time in Tokyo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Once upon a time in Tokyo
Eclectic Fusion 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 KONDO・IMA Live Selection album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
KONDO・IMA Live Selection
Eclectic Fusion 2018
TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 1993 -east west days- album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
1993 -east west days-
Eclectic Fusion 2023

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TOSHINORI KONDO 近藤 等則 Kondo • IMA : Tokyo Rose

Album · 1990 · Eclectic Fusion
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Trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, who passed away just three years ago, was for a few decades one of Japan's left-field experimental jazz/fusion key figures. While still being a student in Japan, he played with avant-garde jazz master pianist Yosuke Yamashita. In 1978 Kondo moved to New York where played with John Zorn and Fred Frith among others. On his return to Japan, Kondo founded his own band, Kondo IMA in 1984. His band's music combined funk-metal, avant-garde jazz, industrial grooves and DJ turntablism. Being Kondo's most commercially successful project ever, the band disbanded when Kondo left Japan for Amsterdam, where he became a member of Peter Brötzmann's Die Like a Dog group, and played with avant-garde jazz guitarist Derek Bailey among others.

"Tokyo Rose" is a IMA's seventh album. Being a collective of flexible line-up, IMA, on here, are a long way from Bill Laswell-produced dub-influenced early music with back-up vocalists and moving towards aggressive industrial metal-funk with Kondo, who switched to electric trumpet, two electric bassists and guest DJ and electric violinist among others.

The core band contains capable electric guitarist (originally the bassist of Japanese punk band from late 70s, Friction) Яeck, who plays excellent long bluesy solos over jumping repetitive hyperactive drummer's beat. Besides of playing trumpet, Kondo sings a lot (something between a rap and brutal Japanese avant-rock vocal (or Akira Sakata vocalize) tradition).

In general, the album's music sounds like a Japanese version of the Red Hot Chilly Peppers and Ministry crossover, with partially removed heaviness and melodies, and a bigger accent on groove and lots of avant-garde jazz improvs and electric noises everywhere. The big surprise is being punk/industrial infected(two most monotonous and repetitive genres around), the music itself is extremely variable, there are not a two same moments presented all album long. Experienced jazz drummer Hideo Yamaki (who played with John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Robert Palmer among others) is very much responsible for that.

Multilayered and very refreshing album, not for everyone's taste though.

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