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Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser (born September 26, 1952) is an American double bass player and composer. Career Dresser was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. In the 1970s, he was a member of Black Music Infinity led by Stanley Crouch and performed with the San Diego Symphony. During the next decade he moved to New York City and became a member of the Anthony Braxton quartet with Marilyn Crispell and Gerry Hemingway. He composed for the Arcado String Trio and Tambastics and for the film, ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari''. Discography As leader * '' Arcado'' with Arcado String Trio (JMT, 1989) * '' Behind the Myth'' with Arcado String Trio (JMT, 1990) * '' For Three Strings and Orchestra'' with Arcado String Trio (JMT, 1992) * ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (Knitting Factory, 1994) * ''Invocation'' (Knitting Factory, 1995) * ''Force Green'' (Soul Note, 1995) * ''Live in Europe'' with Arcado String Trio (Avant, 1996) * ''Banquet'' (Tzadik, 1997) * ''Eye'll Be Seeing You'' (Knitting Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde Jazz
Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz and experimental jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. Originally synonymous with free jazz, much avant-garde jazz was distinct from that style. History 1950s Avant-garde jazz originated in the mid- to late 1950s among a group of improvisors who rejected the conventions of bebop and post bop in an effort to blur the division between the written and the spontaneous. Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor led the way, soon to be joined by John Coltrane. Some would come to apply it differently from free jazz Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians dur ..., emphasizing structure and organization by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar in structure to the cello, it has four, although occasionally five, strings. The bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, along with violins, viola, and cello, ''The Orchestra: A User's Manual'' , Andrew Hugill with the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the concert band, and is featured in Double bass concerto, concertos, solo, and chamber music in European classical music, Western classical music.Alfred Planyavsky [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denman Maroney
Denman Maroney (born 1949) is a jazz musician who plays what he calls "hyperpiano". Hyperpiano "involves stopping, sliding, bowing, plucking, striking and strumming the strings with copper bars, aluminum bowls, rubber blocks, plastic boxes and other household objects." This is sometimes done with one hand while the other hand is used to play the keys. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work and worked on a new soundtrack to go with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (german: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, .... References External linksIndie jazz [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances-Marie Uitti
Frances-Marie Uitti (born 1946) is an American cellist and composer known for her use of extended techniques and performance of contemporary classical music. Tom Service, music critic for the ''Guardian'' newspaper, has called her "arguably the world's most influentially experimental cellist." Stephen Brookes wrote in the ''Washington Post'', "The spectacularly gifted cellist Frances-Marie Uitti has made a career out of demolishing musical boundaries. She has developed new techniques (most famously, playing with two bows simultaneously), collaborated with a who's who of contemporary composers, and pushed the cello into realms of unexpected beauty and expression... Uitti showed why she might be the most interesting cellist on the planet." Music career Born in Chicago, Illinois to Finnish-American parents, Uitti graduated from Berkeley High School in 1964, where she played cello in the school orchestra. She studied classical music at Meadowmount with Ronald Leonard and Josef Gingol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Helias
Mark Helias (born October 1, 1950) is an American double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He started playing the double bass at the age of 20, and studied with Homer Mensch at Rutgers University from 1971 to 1974, then at Yale University's School of Music from 1974 to 1976. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, and SIM (School for Improvised Music). Helias has performed with a wide variety of musicians, first and foremost with trombonist Ray Anderson, with whom he led the ironic 1980s avant-funk band Slickaphonics, and a trio with Gerry Hemingway on drums, formed in the late 1970s, later named BassDrumBone. Helias has also performed with members of Ornette Coleman's band, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, and Ed Blackwell, and with musicians affiliated with the AACM, such as Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams. Since 1984 Mark Helias has released twelve recordings under his own name and further albums leading the archetypal improvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Frith
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. He was also a member of the groups Art Bears, Massacre, and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey, the Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Mike Patton, Lars Hollmer, Bill Laswell, Iva Bittová, Jad Fair, Kramer, the ARTE Quartett, and Bob Ostertag. He has also composed several long works, including ''Traffic Continues'' (1996, performed 1998 by Frith and Ensemble Modern) and ''Freedom in Fragments'' (1993, performed 1999 by Rova Saxophone Quartet). Frith produces most of his own music, and has also produced many albums by other musicians, including Curlew, the Muffins, Etron Fou Leloublan, and Orthotonics. He is the subjec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer Chris Kelsey wrote: "Few free-jazz drummers play with a tenth of Cyrille's grace and authority. His energy is unflagging, his power absolute, tempered only by an ever-present sense of propriety." Life and career Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, into a Haitian family. He began studying science at St. John's University, but was already playing jazz in the evenings and switched his studies to the Juilliard School. His first drum teachers were fellow Brooklyn-based drummers Willie Jones and Lenny McBrowne; through them, Cyrille met Max Roach. Nonetheless, Cyrille became a disciple of Philly Joe Jones. His first professional engagement was as an accompanist of singer Nellie Lutcher, and he had an early recording ses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Three Strings And Orchestra
''For Three Strings and Orchestra'' is the third album by the Arcado String Trio (violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Hank Roberts and bassist Mark Dresser) featuring the Kölner Rundfunk Orchester which was recorded in 1991 and released on the JMT label. , accessed November 14, 2014 Reception awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic listingaccessed November 14, 2014 Track listing # "For Not the Law" (Mark Dresser) - 17:18 # "It's a Free Country, Isn't It?" (Hank Roberts) - 15:04 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind The Myth
''Behind the Myth'' is the second album by the Arcado String Trio featuring violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Hank Roberts and bassist Mark Dresser, which was recorded in 1990 and released on the JMT label. , accessed November 14, 2014 Reception The review by David Jeffries says, "''Behind the Myth'' is filled with intriguing musical surprises and enough substance to make it worthy of repeat listening".Jeffries, D.Allmusic Review accessed November 14, 2014 Track listing # "Ediface" (Mark ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcado String Trio
The Arcado String Trio was first an American, later international Jazz trio active from 1989 to 1993. The ensemble was formed by the cellist Hank Roberts, the bassist Mark Dresser and the violinist Mark Feldman. Roberts was later replaced by Ernst Reijseger. The Trio has performed not only as a chamber music ensemble but also for a project by (1991) with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and as ''Double Trio'' together with the ''Trio de clarinettes'' of Jacques Di Donato, Louis Sclavis, and Armand Angster. The Arcado String Trio drew inspiration from Billy Bang's ''String Trio of New York'' and the ''Kronos Quartet''. Their chamber music showed influences of Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix. Selected discography * 1989 - ''Arcado String Trio'' ( JMT Records) * 1991 - ''Behind the Myth'' (JMT) * 1992 - ''For Three Strings and Orchestra'' (JMT/WDR), with the ''WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln'' conducted by David de Villiers * 1995 - Double Trio ''Green Dolphin Suite'' (Enja) * 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcado (album)
''Arcado'' is the debut album by the Arcado String Trio featuring violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Hank Roberts and bassist Mark Dresser, which was recorded in 1989 and released on the JMT label. , accessed November 14, 2014 Reception The review by Ron Wynn called it an "Intriguing, sometimes explosive, string session".Wynn, R.Allmusic Review accessed November 14, 2014 Track listing # "Gartman's" (Mark Dresser) - 11:37 # "Griffin' Leroy" (Mark Dresser, Hank Roberts, Mark Feldman) - 0 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her field." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote: "Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano... She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz." In addition to her own extensive work as a soloist or bandleader, Crispell is also known as a longtime member of saxophonist Anthony Braxton's quartet in the 1980s and '90s. Biography Crispell was born in Philadelphia and, at the age of ten, moved to Baltimore, where she attended Western High School. She studied classical piano at the Peabody Conservatory beginning at age seven, and also began improvising at an early age, thanks to a teacher who required all her students to improvise regardless of their skill level. She later attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
