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quartet from 1983 to 1994. He has also performed with

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, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George E. Lewis, Ray Anderson,

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, Christy Doran,

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, Cecil Taylor, and

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. Hemingway received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

for his work in music composition in 2000, and was a student of

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. He is a graduate of

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in New Haven. He has recorded on over one hundred albums for the labels

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Enja Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971. The label's first release was by Mal Waldron, and early releases included European and Ja ...

, hatArt, Palmetto, Random Acoustics, and

Tzadik Tzadik ( he, צַדִּיק , "righteous ne, also ''zadik'', ''ṣaddîq'' or ''sadiq''; pl. ''tzadikim'' ''ṣadiqim'') is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters. The ...

. He owns his own label, Auricle.

Discography

As leader

* 1979 ''Kwambe'' Auricle * 1982 ''Solo Works'' (solo) Auricle * 1983–94 ''Electro-Acoustic Solo Works'' (solo) Random Acoustics 1996 * 1984–95 ''Electro-Acoustic Solo Works'' (solo) Random Acoustics 1996 * 1987 ''Outer Bridge Crossing'' (quintet) Sound Aspects * 1988 ''Tub Works'' (solo) Sound Aspects * 1991 ''Down to the Wire'' (quartet) hatArt * 1991 ''View from Points West'' (trio w G Graewe, E Reijseger)

Music & Arts Music & Arts is a classical and jazz record label founded in Berkeley, California by Frederick Maroth. It began in 1984 as a classical music label before adding jazz and world music. The catalog includes classical composers and musicians Milto ...

* 1991 ''Special Detail'' (quintet) hatArt * 1991-94 ''Slamadam'' (quintet) Random Acoustics 1995 * 1993 ''Demon Chaser''(quintet) hatArt, * 1994 ''Saturn Cycle'' (trio w G Graewe, E Reijseger) Music & Arts * 1995 ''The Marmalade King'' (quintet) hatArt * 1996'' Perfect World'' (quintet) Random Acoustics * 1998 ''Johnny's Corner Song'' (quartet) Auricle * 1999 ''Waltzes, Two–Steps & other Matters of the Heart'' (quintet) GM * 1999 ''Chamber Works''

* 2002 ''Songs'' Between the Lines * 2002 ''Double Blues Crossing'' (quintet) Between the Lines * 2003 ''Devil's Paradise'' (quartet)

*2005 ''The Whimbler'' (quartet) Clean Feed *2011 ''Riptide'' (quintet) Clean Feed

As co-leader

With Bass-Drum-Bone (Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Ray Anderson) * 1978 ''Oahspe'' (Auricle) * 1980 ''Right Down Your Alley'' (Black Saint) (under Ray Anderson name) * 1986 ''You Be'' (Minor Music) * 1986-96 ''Cooked To Perfection'' (Auricle, 1999) * 1989 ''Wooferlo'' (Soul Note) * 1997 ''March Of Dimes'' (Data) * 1997 ''Hence The Reason'' (Enja) * 2005 ''The Line Up'' (

Clean Feed Records Clean Feed Records is a jazz record label founded in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001. The label's roster includes Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Carlos Bica, Anthony Braxton, Mark Dresser, Ellery Eskelin, Peter Evans, Scott Fields, Fight the Big Bull, ...

) * 2009 ''The Other Parade'' (

, 2011) * 2016 ''The Long Road'' (Auricle) With WHO trio (Michel Wintsch, Gerry Hemingway, Bänz Oester) *1999 ''Identity'' (Leo Recs) *2004 ''The Current Underneath'' (Leo Recs) *2009 ''Less Is More'' (

) *2014 ''The'' ''WHO Zoo'' (Auricle) (2xCD) *2020 ''Strell'' (

)

As sideman

With

* '' Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983'' (

Black Saint Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels. Since their conception in the 1970s, they have released albums from a variety of influential jazz musicians, particularly in the genre of free jazz. History Black S ...

, 1983) * '' Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984'' (Black Saint, 1984) * '' Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance)'' (Sound Aspects, 1984 990 * '' Quartet (London) 1985'' ( Leo, 1985 988 * '' Quartet (Birmingham) 1985'' (Leo, 1985 991 * '' Quartet (Coventry) 1985'' (Leo, 1985) * ''

Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 ''Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986'' is an album by American saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton recorded in 1986 for the Italian Black Saint label.

'' (Black Saint, 1986) * '' Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988'' (Victo, 1989

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* ''

Willisau (Quartet) 1991 ''Willisau (Quartet) 1991'' is a 4CD box set by American composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton recorded live and in the studio in 1991 and released on the hatART label.

'' (hatArt, 1992) * '' (Victoriaville) 1992'' (Victo, 1993) * ''

Twelve Compositions ''Twelve Compositions'' (subtitled ''Recorded Live in July 1993 at Yoshi's in Oakland California'') is a double CD live album by American saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton, recorded at Yoshi's (jazz club), Yoshi's in 1993 and released on th ...

'' (

, 1993) * '' Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993'' (hatART, 1997) * ''Old Dogs'' (

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, 2007) With

Samuel Blaser Samuel Blaser (born 20 July 1981 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss trombonist and composer. Biography Born and raised in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Samuel Blaser lived in New York City for many years before relocating to Be ...

* ''A Mirror to Machaut'' (Blaser Music, 2013) * ''Fourth Landscape'' (Nuscope, 2013) * ''Oostum'' (No Business Records, 2018) * ''Early in the Mornin'' (OutNote Records, 2018) * ''Moods'' (Blaser Music, 2021) With

* '' The Kitchen Concert'' (Leo, 1991) * ''

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'' (Les Disques Victo, 1991) * ''

Santuerio ''Santuerio'' is a live album by pianist Marilyn Crispell. It was recorded at Roulette in New York City in May 1993, and was released later that year by Leo Records. On the album, Crispell is joined by violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Hank Roberts ...

'' (Leo, 1993) * '' Highlights from the Summer of 1992 American Tour'' (Music & Arts, 1993) * '' Cascades'' (Music & Arts, 1996) * '' MGM Trio'' (Ramboy, 1996) with

* '' Affinities'' (Intakt, 2011) * '' Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton'' (Tzadik, 2012) * '' Table of Changes'' (Intakt, 2015) With

Maybe Monday Maybe Monday is an American experimental music, experimental electroacoustic improvisation music ensemble comprising guitarist Fred Frith, koto (musical instrument), koto player Miya Masaoka and saxophone, saxophonist Larry Ochs (musician), Larr ...

* ''

Unsquare ''Unsquare'' is a 2008 studio album by Maybe Monday, a San Francisco based experimental electroacoustic improvisation music ensemble featuring guitarist Fred Frith, koto player Miya Masaoka and saxophonist Larry Ochs. It is their third albu ...

'' ( Intakt, 2008) With

* ''

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'' (Music & Arts, 1990) * ''

Altered Spaces ''Altered Spaces'' is a live album by bassist/composer Reggie Workman. It was recorded in February 1992 at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and was released by Leo Records in 1993. On the album, Workman is joined by vocalist Jeanne L ...

'' (Leo, 1993) * ''

Cerebral Caverns ''Cerebral Caverns'' is an album by bassist/composer Reggie Workman. It was recorded on April 27 and 28, 1995, in New York City, and was released by Postcards Records that same year. On the album, Workman is heard in a variety of instrumental comb ...

'' (

Postcards Records Postcards Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1993 by Ralph Simon and Sybil Golden. Through 1997 its catalogue included music by Paul Bley, Bill Frisell, Julian Priester, Gary Peacock, Sam Rivers, and Reggie Workman ...

, 1995)

References

External links

Gerry Hemingway official site
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