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 LIVE: Peter Brötzmann + Toshinori Kondo + Sabu Toyozumi TRIO Roger Turner & Michiyo Yagi DUO And more!! Top photo by Sebastien Bozon Artist Information: Peter Brötzmann  Peter Brötzmann (b. 1941) is a German artist, free jazz saxophonist, and clarinetist. Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings. [Peter Brötzmann Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Br%C3%B6tzmann) Toshinori Kondo  Toshinori Kondo (b. 1948) is an avant-garde jazz and 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 Kondo 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 Brötzmann. 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. He founded the band Kondo IMA in 1984. Kondo IMA achieved commercial success but moved to Amsterdam to be alone and to start "Blow the Earth" in 1993. 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. "Blow the Earth in Japan" began in 2007 and ended in 2011. Kondo also directed the film Blow the Earth in Japan. [Toshinori Kondo Homepage](http://www.toshinorikondo.com/) [Toshinori Kondo Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshinori_Kondo) Sabu Toyozumi  Sabu Toyozumi (b. 1943) is one of the small group of musical pioneers who comprised the first generation playing free improvisation music in Japan. As an improvising drummer he played and recorded with many of the key figures in Japanese free music including the two principal figures in the first generation, Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe from the late 1960s onwards. He is one of a very few of this circle who are still alive and engaged in playing this music today. Toyozumi features on numerous commercially available recordings with many of the most notable Japanese and international improvising musicians including Derek Bailey, Mototeru Takagi, Misha Mengelberg, Peter Brötzmann, Keiji Haino, Otomo Yoshihide, Tom Cora and Fred Van Hove. In 1971 he became the only non-American member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians(AACM)). He dedicated his first record as a leader Sabu - Message to Chicago to compositions by AACM members and in 1992 toured and recorded with AACM trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Toyozumi has been instrumental in bringing many European and American improvisers to Japan including Derek Bailey, Misha Mengelberg and Sunny Murray. In 2005 British improvising guitarist and promoter John Russell arranged a two-day event dedicated to Toyozumi in which the drummer performed in different groupings with 14 musicians from the London improvised music scene including, most notably, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Phil Minton, John Edwards and Steve Beresford. The Wire described his playing at this time as follows: "He’s busy, but there’s always space between his notes, and he avoids the flashy technical solution to musical problems. His playing is crisp and dramatic, with a very occasional use of repetition to spark a climax. If it’s possible for a drum kit to ask awkward questions, Toyozumi seems to be doing it". In 2009 he returned to London to feature as one of the players in Russell’s improvisation festival Fete Quaqua which was recorded for broadcast by BBC Radio 3. He continues to tour widely and in the past year or so has performed in Belgium and France, Chile, Taiwan, England, Philippines and Greece. He also performs from time to time with the legendary Japanese noise group Hijokaidan. [Sabu Toyozumi Web](http://www.geocities.jp/sabu_toyozumi/) [Sabu Toyozumi Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_Toyozumi) Roger Turner  [Roger Turner Official site](http://www.turners-site.com) [Roger Turner Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Turner_(musician)) Michiyo YAGI  Michiyo Yagi studied the traditional Japanese transverse harp known as the koto under the late Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training School for Traditional Musicians. During her subsequent tenure as Visiting Professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, U.S.A. she premiered numerous modern compositions for koto and came under the influence of maverick American composers such as John Cage, Christian Wolff, Conlon Nancarrow, and John Zorn. Yagi’s debut CD Shizuku was produced by Zorn and released on his Tzadik label in 1999. In 2001 she recorded Yural (BAJ/ewe) with her multi-koto ensemble Paulownia Crush - this group toured Russia under the auspices of the Japan Foundation in 2004. In 2005 Yagi released Seventeen (Zipangu), entirely performed on the giant 17-string bass koto. Live! at SuperDeluxe (Idiolect), a trio performance with Norwegians Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (contrabass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), followed a year later. In 2008 Rikskonsertene, the national concert institute of Norway, sponsored a two-week tour by Yagi, Nilssen-Love, and German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, a trio that has performed internationally since 2006 and released Head On (Idiolect, 2008) and Volda (Idiolect, 2010). Reflexions (Idiolect/Bomba), an album of duets with the experimental New York guitarist Elliott Sharp, was released in 2010. Yagi’s most recent CD releases are Ichi No Maki [Vol. 1] (2014), credited to Dōjō, her “power duo” with Japanese jazz drummer Tamaya Honda and featuring guests Nils Peter Molvær (trumpet) and Paal Nilssen-Love; Soul Stream (2015), a quartet session with Joe McPhee (pocket trumpet, saxophones), Lasse Marhaug (electronics) and Nilssen-Love; and Angular Mass (2015), a trio with Marhaug and Nilssen-Love. An album of ambient music co-produced by the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset is forthcoming, and a CD of original compositions featuring Yagi’s vocals as well as a classical-contemporary recording of written and commissioned music are also in development. An eclectic performer who continually challenges conventions, Yagi has played at the Moers, Kongsberg Jazz, Punkt, Újbuda Jazz, Musique Actuel Victoriaville, Archipel, Bang on a Can, Tokyo Summer, Vision, Instal, Jazztopad, Sengawa Jazz, Fuji Rock, and Music Unlimited festivals. In addition to leading the Michiyo Yagi Double Trio and the Michiyo Yagi Trio and performing solo concerts - all with an emphasis on her original compositions, extended techniques, and unique vocals based on the traditional jiuta style - she continues to be active as the leading improviser on her chosen instrument. [Michiyo Yagi official site](http://www.michiyoyagi.com) Organized by IDIOLECT