Tomas Fujiwara Triple Double 3/15/19 Firehouse 12

Caught the second set from these six regional improv tricksters. Truly a triple-double, with Fujiwara and Gerald Cleaver on drums, flanked by Mary Halvorsen and Brandon Seabrook on guitar, anchored by Taylor Ho Bynum and Ralph Alessi on cornet and trumpet respectively. The interesting lineup was begging for like musicians to flow from complementary to competitive runs. Halvorsen and Seabrook traded barbs. Mary, seated , and nerdy as last review, had a pedal effect that made bent notes sound Asian, her solo stretching out like someone slipped some peyote into Wes Montgomery's tea. Seabrook was phenomenal, his herky-jerky movements made me think of Seinfeld's Kramer crossed with Elliot Sharp on skronk guitar. Bynum, oozing hipster cool, played multiple cornets, one of them was blue. He should write a jazz improv kids book entitled The Blue Cornet, it would sell. The drummers leaned on complimentary playing. The understated force of one drummer using brushes while the other struck with mallets was palpable. The headshot of this triple double has them wearing Boston Celtics jerseys. While they seem entirely school-able on the hardwood, I wouldn't want to face them on the court of jazz improv, where they are Allstars.