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Fumi Tomita is a New York city jazz bass player. His first CD, Impromptu, a collaboration with pianist Lou Rainone and drummer Robert Weiss has just been released. Featuring an array of jazz standards, the trio swings from the first downbeat. Click here for more information. As a sideman, Fumi has played at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Gracie Mansion, The Up Over Jazz Café, The 55 Bar, Cleopatra's Needle, the Garage as well as Cecils and Trumpets in New Jersey. He was the bassist on the national tour of the Nat King Cole tribute, Unforgettable. Festival appearances include the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz, the Henry Mancini Institute, and the Banff International Workshop in Jazz. After working primarily as a sideman, Fumi began to find his own voice as a leader and began to host a number of gigs at the Garage, Miles Cafe/Somethin', and Tomi Jazz. A native New Yorker, Fumi has studied bass at McGill University and the Manhattan School of Music. Before moving back to New York in 1998, Fumi has also lived and played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Portland, Oregon. He has studied bass with Eric Lagace, Michel Donato, Larry Ridley, and Jay Anderson. Currently, he maintains a busy schedule of teaching and performing and is planning the release of his second CD, Untold, in the fall of 2012. |