Jim Black is an American

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drummer who has performed with

Tim Berne Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the alto and baritone saxophones. Biography Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. He has said that ...

and Dave Douglas. He attended

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Career

His band AlasNoAxis includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar,

Chris Speed Chris Speed (born February 12, 1967) is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. Early life and career Speed grew up outside of Seattle and studied classical piano and clarinet from an early age. He later began studying jazz, took up ...

on tenor saxophone and clarinet, and

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on bass guitar. The music is in some ways closer to

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than jazz, concentrating on rhythmic shifts and ensemble

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rather than featured solos. Since 2000

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has released several of the band's albums. Pachora includes Black, Speed, Sverrisson, and Brad Shepik on tambura and electric saz. This band plays music that is rhythmically diverse and inspired by

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rhythms. Black participated as drummer 12 in the

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performance on July 7, 2007 at the

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in Brooklyn, New York. He is also one-third of the group BBC (Berne/Black/Cline) with alto saxophonist Berne and

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. The group released the album ''The Veil'' in 2011.

Discography

As leader

With AlasNoAxis

* ''

AlasNoAxis ''AlasNoAxis'' is the debut album by drummer Jim Black's AlasNoAxis featuring clarinetist/saxophonist Chris Speed, guitarist Hilmar Jensson and bassist Skúli Sverrisson recorded in 2000 and released on the Winter & Winter label. Reception ...

'' (Winter & Winter, 2000) * '' Splay'' (Winter & Winter, 2002) * '' Habyor'' (Winter & Winter, 2004) * '' Dogs of Great Indifference'' (Winter & Winter, 2006) * ''

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'' (Winter & Winter, 2009) * ''Antiheroes'' (Winter & Winter, 2013)

With the Jim Black Trio

* ''Somatic'' (Winter & Winter, 2011) * ''Actuality'' (Winter & Winter, 2014) * ''The Constant'' (Intakt, 2016) * ''Reckon'' (Intakt, 2020)

Other

* '' The Veil'' with BB&C (Cryptogramophone, 2011) * ''Malamute'' as Jim Black (Intakt, 2017)

As sideman

With

* '' Lowlife: The Paris Concert'' ( JMT, 1995) * '' Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert'' (JMT, 1995) * '' Memory Select: The Paris Concert'' (JMT, 1995) * ''

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'' (

Screwgun Screwgun Records is a jazz record label founded by saxophonist Tim Berne in 1996. Most releases on the label have been by Berne, though some have been by Berne's associates and bandmates. Steve Byram has designed and illustrated the artwork for ma ...

, 1996) * '' Saturation Point'' (Screwgun, 1997) * ''

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'' (Screwgun, 1997) * ''

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'' (Screwgun, 2007) * ''Insomnia'' (Clean Feed, 2011) * ''Attention Spam'' (Screwgun, 2021) * ''5'' (Screwgun, 2021) With

Carlos Bica Carlos Bica is a Portuguese jazz bassist. Career Bica studied at the Academia dos Amadores de Musica in Lisbon and the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg. He was "Musician of the Year" in Portugal in 1998 and in 2016. For his album ''Matéria- ...

* ''Azul'' (EmArcy, 1996) * ''Twist'' (Enja, 1998) * ''Look What They've Done to My Song'' (Enja, 2003) * ''Believer'' (Enja, 2006) * ''Things About'' (Clean Feed, 2011) * ''More Than This'' (Clean Feed, 2016) * ''Azul in Ljubljana'' (Clean Feed, 2018) With

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* '' Gustav Mahler in Toblach'' (Winter & Winter, 1999) * '' Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame'' (Winter & Winter, 2003) * ''

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'' (Winter & Winter, 2006) * '' The Othello Syndrome'' (Winter & Winter, 2008) * ''

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'' (Winter & Winter, 2013) With Dave Douglas * '' The Tiny Bell Trio'' (Songlines, 1994) * ''

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'' (hat ART, 1996) * '' Live in Europe'' (Arabesque, 1997) * '' Songs for Wandering Souls'' (Winter & Winter, 1999) With

Ellery Eskelin Ellery Eskelin (born August 16, 1959) is an American tenor saxophonist raised in Baltimore, Maryland and residing in New York City. His parents, Rodd Keith and Bobbie Lee, were both professional musicians. Rodd Keith died in 1974 in Los Angeles, ...

* ''Jazz Trash'' (Songlines, 1995) * ''One Great Day...'' (hatOLOGY, 1997) * ''Kulak, 29 & 30'' (hatOLOGY, 1998) * ''Five Other Pieces (+2)'' (hatOLOGY, 1999) * ''Ramifications'' (hatOLOGY, 2000) * ''The Secret Museum'' (hatOLOGY, 2000) * ''12 (+1) Imaginary Views'' (hatOLOGY, 2002) * ''Arcanum Moderne'' (hatOLOGY, 2003) * ''Ten'' (hatOLOGY, 2004) * ''Quiet Music'' (Prime Source, 2006) * ''One Great Night...Live'' (hatOLOGY, 2009) With Endangered Blood * ''Endangered Blood'' (Skirl, 2011) * ''Work Your Magic'' (Skirl, 2013) * ''Don't Freak Out'' (Skirl, 2018) With Peter Evans * ''Ghosts'' (More Is More, 2011) * ''Destination: Void'' (More Is More, 2014) * ''Genesis'' (More Is More, 2016) With

Human Feel Human Feel is a jazz quartet that consists of clarinet/tenor saxophone player Chris Speed, bass clarinet/ alto saxophone player Andrew D'Angelo, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, and drummer Jim Black. The group combines elements of free jazz, chambe ...

* ''Human Feel'' (Human Use 1989) * ''Scatter'' (GM, 1991) * ''Welcome to Malpesta'' (New World 1994) * ''Speak to It'' (Songlines, 1996) * ''Galore'' (Skirl, 2007) * ''Gold'' (Intakt, 2019) With

Satoko Fujii is a Japanese avant-garde jazz pianist, accordionist and composer. Early life Fujii was born in Tokyo on 9 October 1958.Huey, Stev"Satoko Fujii" AllMusic. Retrieved 9 February 2016. She started playing the piano at age 4, receiving classical tr ...

* ''Looking Out of the Window'' (Ninety-One, 1997) * ''Kitsune-bi'' (Tzadik, 1999) * ''Toward to West'' (Enja, 2000) * ''Junction'' (EWE, 2001) * ''Bell the Cat!'' (Tokuma, 2002) * ''Illusion Suite'' (Libra, 2004) * ''Live in Japan 2004'' (Natsat Music/PJL 2005) * ''When We Were There'' (PJL 2006) * ''Trace a River'' (Libra 2008) With

Hilmar Jensson Hilmar Jensson (born 1966) is an Icelandic guitarist. Biography Jensson picked up the guitar at a young age. He studied at the FIH music school in Iceland from 1982 and then in 1991 attended the Berklee College of Music, in Boston. During ...

* ''Dofinn'' (Jazzis, 1995) * ''Tyft'' (Songlines, 2002) * ''Ditty Blei'' (Songlines, 2004) With

David Liebman David Liebman (born September 4, 1946) is an American saxophonist, flautist and jazz educator. He is known for his innovative lines and use of atonality. He was a frequent collaborator with pianist Richie Beirach. In June 2010, he received a N ...

* ''Different but the Same'' (hatOLOGY, 2005) * ''Renewal'' (hatOLOGY, 2008) * ''Non Sequiturs'' (Hatology, 2011) With

Ben Monder Ben Monder (born May 24, 1962) is an American modern jazz guitarist. Biography Monder started playing guitar when he was eleven, after two years on violin. From 1979–84, he attended the Westchester Conservatory of Music, the University of Miam ...

* ''Flux'' (Songlines, 1996) * ''

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'' (Arabesque, 1997) * '' Excavation'' (Arabesque, 2000) With

* ''Yeah No'' (Songlines, 1997) * ''Deviantics'' (Songlines, 1999) * ''Emit'' (Songlines, 2000) * ''Swell Henry'' (Squealer, 2004) with Pachora * ''Pachora'' (Knitting Factory, 1997) * ''Unn'' (Knitting Factory, 1998) * ''Ast'' (Knitting Factory, 1999) * ''Astereotypical'' (Winter & Winter, 2003) With others *

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, ''Life On a String'' (Nonesuch, 2001) * Laurie Anderson, ''Live at Town Hall New York City September 19-20 2001'' (Nonesuch, 2002) *

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, ''Live in Dublin'' (Auand, 2006) *

David Binney David Binney (born August 2, 1961) is an American alto saxophonist and composer. Early life Binney was born in Miami, Florida, and was raised in Carpinteria, California. From his parents, who loved music, he was exposed to albums by John C ...

, ''South'' (ACT, 2001) * David Binney, ''Balance'' (ACT, 2002) *

Theo Bleckmann Theodor Raoul Bleckmann (born 28 May 1966) is a German singer and composer. Biography Bleckmann was born in Dortmund, West Germany. He planned to be an ice skater before becoming a vocalist. In 1989 he moved to New York City and recorded his ...

, ''No Boat'' (Songlines, 1997) * Stefano Bollani, ''Sheik Yer Zappa'' (Decca, 2014) *

, ''77 Boa'' (Drum Commmons, 2008) *

Marty Cook Marty Cook (born May 1947) is an American jazz trombonist. Biography Cook was born in New York and raised in Ohio, where he began playing trombone at age seven. He played in New York in the late 1960s, recording with Marzette Watts in 1968. He p ...

, ''Phases of the Moon'' (Tutu, 1994) *

Andrew D'Angelo Andrew D'Angelo (born November 2, 1965) is an American jazz musician. Career D'Angelo was raised in Seattle, where he met Chris Speed and Jim Black, before he moved to New York City in 1985. He worked again with Speed in Boston, where they co ...

, ''Skadra Degis'' (Skirl, 2008) *

Kris Davis Kris Davis (born 1980) is a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Early life Davis was born in Vancouver in 1980 and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She studied classical piano from the age of six and discovered jazz while a high school student. She ...

, '' Save Your Breath'' (Clean Feed, 2015) *

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, ''Third Stone from the Sun'' (New World/CounterCurrents 1993) *

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 w ...

, ''Sedimental You'' (Clean Feed, 2016) * Mark Dresser, ''Ain't Nothing But a Cyber Coup & You'' (Clean Feed, 2019) *

Peter Epstein Peter Coleman Epstein (born January 18, 1967) is an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Epstein learned clarinet as a youth from his father, Ed Epstein, who played saxophone, but picked up his father's instrument in his teens, playing in high ...

, ''Staring at the Sun'' (MA, 1997) *

John Escreet John Escreet (born 18 August 1984) is an English jazz pianist. Biography Escreet moved to New York in 2006. In 2008 he graduated from the Master’s Program at Manhattan School of Music, where he studied piano with Kenny Barron and Jason Moran ...

, ''Sabotage and Celebration'' (Whirlwind, 2013) *

Michael Formanek Michael Formanek (born May 7, 1958) is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California, United States, and associated with the jazz scene in New York City, New York. Career In the 1980s, Formanek worked as a sideman with Freddie Hubb ...

, ''Nature of the Beast'' (Enja, 1997) *

Lee Konitz Leon Konitz (October 13, 1927 – April 15, 2020) was an American composer and alto saxophonist. He performed successfully in a wide range of jazz styles, including bebop, cool jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Konitz's association with the cool jazz ...

, ''Jugendstil II'' (ESP Disk, 2010) *

Donny McCaslin Donald Paul McCaslin (born August 11, 1966) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has recorded over a dozen albums as a bandleader in addition to many sideman appearances, including on David Bowie's final studio album, ''Blackstar'' (2016). Early ...

, ''Seen from Above'' (Arabesque, 2000) *

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, ''Unit of Resistance'' (ROIR 2007) * Anais Mitchell, ''Hadestown'' (Righteous Babe, 2010) *

Ikue Mori (born 17 December 1953), also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, electronic musician, composer, and graphic designer. Mori was awarded a "Genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2022. Biography Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She sa ...

, ''Obelisk'' (Tzadik, 2017) *

Hank Roberts Hank Roberts (born March 24, 1954, Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American jazz cellist and vocalist. He plays the electric cello, and his style is a mixture of rock, jazz, avant-garde, folk, and classical influences. He emerged with the downtown Ne ...

, ''

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'' (Winter & Winter, 2008) *

Ned Rothenberg Ned Rothenberg (born September 15, 1956) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments, including the alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). He is known ...

, ''Real and Imagined Time'' (Moers Music, 1995) *

Jamie Saft Jamie Saft is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was born in New York City, and studied at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private mu ...

, '' Ragged Jack'' (Avant, 1996) * Jamie Saft, '' Sovlanut'' (Tzadik, 2000) *

Ed Schuller Edwin Gunther Schuller (January 11, 1955) is an American jazz bassist and composer. His father is Gunther Schuller, a composer, horn player, and music professor, and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller. Career A native of New York Ci ...

, ''The Force'' (Tutu, 1996) *

Assif Tsahar Assif Tsahar (born Israel, June 11, 1969) is an Israeli tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist. He has lived in New York City since 1990. He has performed with Cecil Taylor, Butch Morris, William Parker, Mat Maneri, Hamid Drake, Peter Kowald, ...

, ''Jam'' (Hopscotch, 2003) *

Cuong Vu Cuong Vu (born 19 September 1969) is a Vietnamese-American jazz trumpeter. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Vu was a member of the Pat Metheny Group. Biography Born in Saigon on September 19, 1969, Vu immigrated to Seattle with his ...

, ''Bound'' (OmniTone, 2000) *

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jaz ...

, ''Voices in the Wilderness'' (Tzadik, 2003)

References

External links

Official homepage 77 Boadrum Site Profile
Viva Radio, Sep 2007 (

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