Biography
A sonically bold Japanese trumpeter, Toshinori Kondo was a creative maverick whose conceptual music straddled avant-garde jazz, electro-industrial rock, and ambient improvisation. Kondo emerged as a key exponent of the experimental downtown New York scene of the 1970s and gained notoriety leading his IMA group and releasing ambitious albums like 1984's Taihen, 1986's Konton, and 1989's Kamikaze Blow, which found him blending metallic funk, jazz, ...Read more