
1993 Plantation Lullabies, Meshell Ndegeocello. 1989 Soldiers of Fortune, Santi Debriano. 2005 Boston T Party with Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin (Mascot). 2003 Kif with Rufus Cappadocia (Fuzelicious Morsels). 2002 Black Cherry Acid Lab (Fuzelicious Morsels). 1994 Lunar Crush with John Medeski ( Gramavision). 1991 Trio + Two with Cindy Blackman, Santi Debriano (Freelance). įiuczynski is the guitarist on the 2013 album Gamak by alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. In 2012 he started Planet MicroJam, an institute exploring the use of microtones in jazz, ethnic folk and other contexts. 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 2005, Fiuczynski was hired by former Police drummer Stewart Copeland for the band Gizmo, which toured in Italy in July 2005. 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. For example, Screaming Headless Torsos emphasizes jazz-funk fusion and Hasidic New Wave blends jazz with Semitic and African music.
įiuczynski 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.
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. He received a Bachelor of Music from the latter in 1989.
He returned to the US to study at Hampshire College and later the prestigious New England Conservatory. Though born in the United States, his family moved to Germany when he was 8 years old and remained until he was 19. He has played on more than 95 albums as a session musician, band leader, or band member. Screaming Headless Torsos, Hasidic New Wave, Hiromi, George Russell, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Kif, Black Cherry Acid Lab, Planet Micro Jamĭavid 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. David Fiuczynski performs at Moers Festival (2007)