Toshinori Kondo

Toshinori Kondo

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Sound

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1948-12-15

  • Day of Death

    2020-10-17 (71 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Ehime, Japan

Biography

Toshinori Kondo (近藤 等則, Kondō Toshinori, 15 December 1948 – 17 October 2020) was a Japanese avant-garde 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 sought-after collaborator in free jazz, locking horns with the incendiary German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and courting revelation with other avant-garde luminaries, like English guitarist Derek Bailey and Dutch drummer Han Bennink.