episode 010//David 'Fuze' Fiuczynski
This week I’m talking to the amazing guitarist David Fiuczynski (or as he’s known by many, Fuze).
The first time I heard Fuze was on the Meshell N’degeocello song “Soul Record” which is the first song off of her first album “plantation lullabies” where he takes this blazing guitar solo. (Play that solo) As a bass player, that album was already a big deal to me but I was a fan of the Fuze’s guitar playing from then on. I soon heard Lunar Crush which was a record that Fuze made with John Medeski and it would feature Screaming Headless Torsos members Fima Ephron, Jojo Mayer who plays drums on some of it and Gene Lake who also plays drums on some of it. And then, of course Fuze is known as the guitarist and bandleader of Screaming Headless Torsos which is a genre-smashing band that mixes funk/jazz/avant garde/free jazz/gospel/electronic music and everything in between.
He’s also worked with people like Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bernie Worrell, Stewart Copeland, Hiromi, Billy Hart, Jack Dejohnette, and many others.