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03 Mar

[ March the 3rd,2023 release on Bandcamp:Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – March On ]

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March On – a download-only EP available March 3, 2023 via Bandcamp – centers on a riveting 32-minute piece of free improvisation and includes several short duo improvisations excerpted from alternate takes of the compositions from March.
“The near telepathic cohesion of a playoff team.” – Martin Johnson, The Wall Street Journal
“Six of the strongest voices in contemporary music.” – Matt Micucci, Jazziz
“The double instrumentation… provides opportunities for Fujiwara to indulge some compositional potentialities. What if you have a drummer play a song-length solo over the top of a ballad? What if you overlaid two spot-on imitations of The Magic Band waxing skeletally Beefhearty? Keep those questions coming.” – Bill Meyer, The Wire
Drummer/composer Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – drummers Fujiwara and Gerald Cleaver, guitarists Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook, trumpeter Ralph Alessi and cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum – returns with March On an epic improvisation culled from sessions for their acclaimed album March, which JazzTimes called “brilliantly mad, joyously improvisational, [and] cathartically cleansing.”  While Triple Double comprises six revered improvisers, the focus of March was squarely on Fujiwara’s compositions.
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01 Mar

[ March the 4th, 2022 release via Firehouse 12 Records: Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double – March ]

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release date: 04.03.2022 via Firehouse 12 Records

“Deliberately seeing double in the cause of exploratory jazz, Fujiwara brings together instrumentalists primed to rub each other in all the right and creatively wrong ways.“ – The New Yorker

“[The six musicians’] collective talent and Fujiwara’s innovative leadership make for a tonic of unpredictability… A triple scoop of great music.”  – Britt Robson, JazzTimes

“March is brilliantly mad, joyously improvisational, cathartically cleansing. The perfect companion to two years of isolation, this music frees your spirits and clearly makes the musicians soar.…It all goes happy-hour punch-drunk in the dual-drummer assault of ‘Wave Shake Angle Bounce,” with ominous tri-tones backing gleeful guitar and trumpet as Fujiwara and Cleaver bash and bleed.” – Ken Micallef, JazzTimes

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