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Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet (ONJQ) is a Japanese free jazz/experimental ensemble led by a composer, sound producer, turntablist and guitarist Otomo Yoshihide. Like an iconoclast, Otomo tackled the jazz repertoire, always with untold respect, virtuosity and skill.

After more than 100 releases, including eight acclaimed ONJQ albums, and over two decades of performances across the world’s most daring stages, Otomo continues to explore the captivating balance between melodic form and the intense spontaneity of improvisation. ONJQ performances are thrilling collisions of energy — from intricate swing passages to walls of noise and ecstatic group interplay — each moment an invitation to experience jazz as a living, evolving art form.