Jazzpunk
ASIN: B00004RI5U
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About the Artist
David "Fuze" Fiuczynski was born in the United States and raised in Germany. He returned to the United States for college, and was awarded a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory in 1989. He lives and works in the New York City area.
In October 1998, David was nominated for an Alpert/Cal Arts "Genius" Award for outstanding musical achievement.
For the past twelve years, David has been bandleader and primary writer for the highly acclaimed group Screaming Headless Torsos, who have toured worldwide. They have released two albums: their eponymous debut on Discovery Records and a live album (that you can buy here!! ) released in Japan on VideoArtsMusic. They are currently working as an instrumental group, Fiuczynski's Headless Torsos, and are recording an album to be released in December 1999. Fuze has also recorded an album of standards with a project called JazzPunk for Fuzelicious Morsels records that has just been released. David has two other current solo projects, Kif, an Arabeo-funk-jazz-jungle group, and Black Cherry Acid Lab, which is a mixture of funk-rock, rap and punk. In addition to being a prolific songwriter and bandleader, Fuze has also appeared on over 60 albums by other artists, and has toured extensively with many of them.
Fuze has started his own record company, Fuzelicious Morsels, and has numerous releases scheduled for 1999. They include albums by Headless Torsos, Kif, Black Cherry Acid Lab and JazzPunk as well an album by David's wife, vocalist, songwriter and graphic designer Lian Amber, that he will also be featured on as a writer and instrumentalist.
David has been twice chosen by Guitar Player magazine as an important guitarist to watch. He has also been enthusiastically featured and/or reviewed by Musician, Guitar, GuitarShop, Guitar World, Guitar Magazine (Japan), Vibe, Pulse, Interview, DownBeat, Jazz Times, JazzIz, Keyboard, CD Review, Modern Drummer, Jazzthetik (Germany), "Q" Magazine, The New Review of Records, Billboard, Audio, Audio Files, College Music Journal, The New York Times, the Village Voice and numerous other publications worldwide.
With his own and other bands, David has played at many of the world's major jazz festivals, including Montreaux, North Sea, Umbria Jazz, Pori, Tampere, Baneilles Bleue in Paris, Nice, Skopje, Edinburgh, Vienna Jazz, Saalfelden, Jazz in Vienne, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec City, Toronto, JVC Jazz New York, Texaco New York, and Newport Jazz.
Fuze has performed, toured, and/or recorded with the following artists:
Screaming Headless Torsos
Lunar Crush with John Medeski
Me'Shell NdegeOcello
Five Guitars Play Mingus with Larry Coryell, Russell Malone, Vic Juris & Jack Wilkins
Chartbusters with Randy Brecker, Lonnie Smith, Idris Muhammed, Craig Handy & Lenny White
GX4 with Eliott Sharp, Kelvyn Bell & Mark Ribot
Bernie Worrell
Branford Marsalis
Kenny Kirkland
Mark Shim
Geri Allen
Billy Hart Group
Cindy Blackman and Santi DeBriano
Vernon Reid
Hasidic New Wave
Lian Amber
John Zorn
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rise Robots Rise
Bob Moses
Muhal Richard Abrams
Don Pullen
Jack Walrath
Lonnie Smith
Greg Osby
Matt Garrison
Elliott Sharp
Joshua Redman
George Russell's Living Time Orchestra
Adam Holtzman
Muhal Richard Abrams
Jack Walrath & Don Pullen
Mark Shim
Greg Osby
Pheron Aklaff
Reggie Workman
Charles and Eddie
Scritti Politti
Band members: David 'Fuze' Fiuczynski, fretted and fretless guitars with:
Fima Ephron, bass Daniel Sadownick, percussion Gene Lake, drums
Tim Lefebvre, bass Zach Danziger, drums
Billy Hart, drums, Santi DeBriano, bass, Rufus Cappadocia, cello
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ASIN: B00004RI5U Release Date: 2000-03-21 |
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I WANT MY MONEY BACK!.......2004-04-06
If you want the good stuff check out Screaming Headless Torsos. In the context of brilliant songs with verses, choruses, a bridge, and set solo sections, The Fuze is the second coming. On JazzPunk, The Fuze is a great painter without a picture frame to collect the good stuff.
Anything goes (And I mean anything!). Any and all ideas run free, and it just goes on and on and on and on with endings to songs that never want to end for untold self indulgent minutes. The rhythm section is all over the place. Good editing and good taste is an underappreciated art.
There's something to be said for a producer to rope a guy in and pick the good stuff, but I suspect this is one of those projects where the artist gets the opportunity to do whatever the hell he wants to do. Forget trying to create something even remotely commerical that droves of jazz freaks would want to buy.
If it was me putting in all that effort for what it takes to put a CD out, I'd want to get something back for it. Then again I'm not part of the New York artsy fartsy, afrocentric, everybody play in a different key at The Knitting Factory, post Living Colour, harmolodic scene. Maybe that's the market for this recording. More power to you.
For this type of vibe Scott Henderson does a similar thing but it's actually very enjoyable. But that's LA for ya'. Always thinking.
soul stretching.......2003-04-25
Should be called "PazzJunk".......2002-10-16
100% creativity!!!!.......2001-06-05
Jazz Punk packs a punch.......2000-07-04
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