Takuya Kuroda "R.S.B.D." (TBG Rise and Fall Remix)
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TRUMPETER/COMPOSER TAKUYA KURODA ZIG-ZAGS BETWEEN POST-BOP, NEO-SOUL, HIP-HOP AND ELECTRONICA ON HIS 5TH STUDIO ALBUM
The Japanese-born trumpet player makes his Concord Records debut with the wildly diverse and infectiously funky Zigzagger
Whether moving from Japan to the U.S. or navigating between the influences of jazz, soul, hip-hop, Afrobeat and electronica, trumpeter/composer Takuya Kuroda has never followed a straight path. On his fifth studio album and Concord Records debut, the aptly named Zigzagger, Kuroda darts between those wide-ranging interests with a funky swagger and an intensely swinging vigor. The deeply infectious album, due out October 7, 2016, finds the trumpeter snaking his way around the opposing poles of acoustic and electric, bristling grooves and blissed-out vibes, punchy brass and fluid synths, carving his own distinctive sonic path along the way.
“Life is sometimes not that easy, sometimes not so difficult, and it should never go straight,” Kuroda says. “It’s always zigzagging. So I put my soul and spirit into that word.”