Fumi Tomita ft. David Detweiler | Oceanology | Single
Bassist Fumi Tomita celebrates the 100th anniversary of jazz icon Charlie Parker with thoroughly
Parkerian flair and resourcefulness on Celebrating Bird: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, set for a release on NextLevel Records. Tomita, along with tenor saxophonist and longtime
collaborator David Detweiler, presents an inspired set of contrafacts—new melodies, composed upon
familiar chord changes—of tunes in Parker’s repertoire.
“I’ve always loved Charlie Parker’s music,” Tomita says, musing on the idiom Bird did so much to
create. “It’s a style rooted in a certain language but very open to other styles.”
That openness is very much evident on Celebrating Bird, such as with the funk suggested by
Tomita’s doubling of the melody line with Detweiler on “Oceanology” (a blues in C, a favorite Bird
framework).
“I’ve always loved Charlie Parker’s music,. It’s a style rooted in a certain language but very open to other styles.”
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