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Screaming Headless Torsos
Screaming Headless Torsos
American funk band
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Rudresh Mahanthappa
Rudresh Mahanthappa
American musician
2
Damion Reid
Damion Reid
American drummer
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Hiromi Uehara
Hiromi Uehara
Japanese-born jazz composer and pianist (1979-)
4
Matt Garrison
Matt Garrison
American musician
5
Jojo Mayer
Jojo Mayer
Swiss virtuoso drummer
6
Dan Weiss
Dan Weiss
American musician
7
Tony Grey
Tony Grey
English musician
8
Meshell Ndegeocello
Meshell Ndegeocello
American recording artist; musician
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Rez Abbasi
Rez Abbasi
American fusion and jazz guitarist, music producer, and composer
10
Gene Lake
Gene Lake
American jazz drummer (born 1966)
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Liberty Ellman
Liberty Ellman
American musician
12
Lee Alexander
Lee Alexander
American musician
13
Svoy
Svoy
Russian singer
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Doyle Bramhall II
Doyle Bramhall II
American rock guitarist, songwriter and producer
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Dywane Thomas, Jr.
Dywane Thomas, Jr.
musician, bass guitarist
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Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
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Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake
American musician
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Josh Roseman
Josh Roseman
American musician
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T Lavitz
T Lavitz
American musician
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Horacio Hernandez
Horacio Hernandez
Cuban musician
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Tommy Campbell
Tommy Campbell
American drummer
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Nir Felder
Nir Felder
American musician
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Grégoire Maret
Grégoire Maret
Swiss jazz musician
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Mark Guiliana
Mark Guiliana
American drummer
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Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett
American musician
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Helio Alves
Helio Alves
Jazz pianist
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J. D. Allen III
J. D. Allen III
American jazz saxophonist
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Cindy Blackman
Cindy Blackman
American musician
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David Torn
David Torn
American guitarist
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Jim Beard
Jim Beard
American musician
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Graham Haynes
Graham Haynes
American musician
32
Wah-Wah Watson
Wah-Wah Watson
American guitarist
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Marc Cary
Marc Cary
American musician
34
Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Jacques Schwarz-Bart
French musician
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Steve Lehman
Steve Lehman
American musician
36
Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
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Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves
American jazz singer
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John Medeski
John Medeski
American jazz keyboards player and composer
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John Betsch
John Betsch
American musician
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James Hurt
James Hurt
American musician
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Jeff Parker
Jeff Parker
American musician
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Amir ElSaffar
Amir ElSaffar
American musician
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Will Calhoun
Will Calhoun
American musician
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Michael Cain
Michael Cain
American pianist and composer
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Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin
Turkish-American songwriter & record producer
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Lizz Wright
Lizz Wright
American singer
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Ron Carter
Ron Carter
American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
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John Scofield
John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
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Joe Henry
Joe Henry
American musician
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Kadri Gopalnath
Kadri Gopalnath
Indian musician
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Kenwood Dennard
Kenwood Dennard
American musician, pianist and music educator
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David Kikoski
David Kikoski
American musician
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Miguel Zenón
Miguel Zenón
Puerto Rican alto saxophonist
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Michel Camilo
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
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Dave Samuels
Dave Samuels
American musician
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Tommy Smith
Tommy Smith
Scottish saxophone player
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Steve Hunt
Steve Hunt
American jazz pianist and composer
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Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
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Ray Santisi
Ray Santisi
Pianist, composer, arranger, college professor, recording artist
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Maurice White
Maurice White
American musician, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire
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Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
English drummer (born 1957)
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Trixie Whitley
Trixie Whitley
Belgian musician
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Sadao Watanabe
Sadao Watanabe
Japanese jazz saxophonist, composer, bandmaster (1933-)
David Fiuczynski
American musician

David Fiuczynski

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American musician
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Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Member of, past and present

David Fiuczynski (born March 5, 1964) is an American contemporary jazz guitarist, best known as the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos and David Fiuczynski's KiF, and as a member of Hasidic New Wave. He has played on more than 95 albums as a session musician, band leader, or band member.

Though born in the United States, his family moved to Germany when he was 8 years old and remained until he was 19. He returned to the US to study at Hampshire College and later the prestigious New England Conservatory. He received a Bachelor of Music from the latter in 1989. After living in New York City for more than a decade, he now resides in Massachusetts and is a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Fiuczynski describes himself as "a jazz musician who doesn't want to play just jazz." Many of his albums have thematic material associated with one or more additional genres. For example, Screaming Headless Torsos emphasizes jazz-funk fusion; and Hasidic New Wave blends jazz with Semitic and African music. His album Jazz Punk is a collection of standards and covers written by his idols and mentors where each tune was reworked in distinctive musical combinations.

In 2005, Fiuczynski was hired by former Police drummer Stewart Copeland for the band Gizmo, which toured in Italy in July 2005. Starting in 2007, he has toured with trumpeter Cuong Vu and with jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara, ano appeared on the latter's albums Time Control and Beyond Standard.

In 2012 he started Planet MicroJam, an institute exploring the use of microtones in jazz, ethnic folk and other contexts.

Fiuczynski is the guitarist on the 2013 album Gamak by alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa.