Rob Mazurek (born 1965) is an American

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ist, improviser and

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living in

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Biography

Rob Mazurek is an American electro-acoustic composer, cornetist, improviser and visual artist living in Chicago, Illinois. Mazurek was born in 1965 in

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and

in high school in

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. He first learned the foundations of improvised music while studying jazz theory and practice with

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at the Bloom School of Jazz in Chicago, eventually working with other Chicago musicians like

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, Robert Barry,

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and Earma Thompson. In 1996, Mazurek formed the longstanding Chicago Underground Collective with guitarist Jeff Parker and drummer Chad Taylor, a unit that ranges in size from duo to orchestra. The Collective earned Mazurek the attention of Chicago's underground community at the beginning of the 21st century, resulting in high-profile collaborations with other genre-defying artists like

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, Jim O'Rourke,

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and

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(started by Jeff Parker) was consequently born from these endeavors. While living in

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from 2000 to 2005, Mazurek constructed exotic soundscapes from the sounds of the Amazonian rain forest, including

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s recorded at INPA research laboratory in

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and audio culled from

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s on the outskirts of Brasilia. It was in

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that Mazurek met Mauricio Takara and Guilherme Granado, his partners in the São Paulo Underground, a group dedicated to exploring and expanding upon Brazilian musical traditions. Originally inspired by a joint commission from the

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and

Jazz Institute of Chicago The Jazz Institute of Chicago is a non-profit arts presenting organization that produces jazz concerts and runs educational programs. It was founded in 1969 by a small band of jazz fans, writers, club owners, and musicians to preserve the historical ...

, Mazurek founded the Exploding Star Orchestra in 2005 to investigate Chicago's avant-garde musical traditions. The Orchestra has premiered a number of extended suites since its inception, including "Sting Ray and the Beginning of Time," "Cosmic Tomes for Sleepwalking Lovers," "Constellations for Inner Light Projections for

Bill Dixon William Robert “Bill” Dixon (October 5, 1925 – June 16, 2010) was an American composer, improviser, visual artist, activist, and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal figures in free jazz and late twentieth-century contemporary music. Hi ...

," "Stars Have Shapes," "63 Moons of Jupiter", "Transgressions Suite" and "Galactic Parables." Mazurek currently leads a number of ensembles, including Exploding Star Orchestra, Pharaoh and the Underground (featuring

Pharoah Sanders Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", San ...

), Chicago Underground, Pulsar Quartet, São Paulo Underground, Skull Sessions, Sound Is Quintet, Starlicker, Mandarin Movie, and Throne of the House of Good and Evil, each of which possesses its own distinct musical personality. He has collaborated with a wide variety of artists, such as Bill Dixon, Pharoah Sanders,

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Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' described him as "one of the key figures ...

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, Fred Anderson,

Naná Vasconcelos Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician wi ...

, Mamelo Sound System,

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, and others. As a composer, Mazurek has written over 300 original compositions over the past 30 years, and has released at least 55 recordings on various labels including Aesthetics,

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, Delmark, Family Vineyard, Mego, Northern Spy, Submarine,

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, and his own label Infinity Dogs. Beyond his ensemble efforts, Mazurek's solo endeavors reflect his interest in

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and electronic sound manipulation, with releases on Aesthetics, Bottrop-Boy, Delmark, Mego and Moikai that document his cornet playing augmented by

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and

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. Mazurek has also been awarded a number of commissions and awards. In 2016, he received a grant from the

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for an

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titled "The Farnsworth Scores" in collaboration with filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt, which was shot at

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's iconic

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. In 2013, he was commissioned to compose the "Galactic Parables" suite by the Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival in

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. In 2011, he was commissioned to compose "Violent Orchid Suite" by the Jazz & Wine Festival in

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, and "Transgressions Suite", also by the Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival. In 2010, he received the Commissioning Music/USA grant from

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for a multi-media work developed in collaboration with video artist/

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Marianne Kim. Additionally, Mazurek works as a visual artist (incorporating sound, painting and video) with numerous international performances, exhibitions and artist residencies. He has shown his multi-media works at locations throughout the United States and

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, including the

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, where his paintings hang on the office walls. His pieces have also appeared at Marfa Book Company (

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), Galleria Coletivo (São Paulo, Brazil), Abbey Royal de Fontevraud (

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), Gantner Multi-Media Center ( Bourogne, France), Heaven Gallery (

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, USA), Naked Duck Gallery (

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, USA), Le Grande Fabrique (

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, France) and URDLA Centre Estampe et Livre (

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, France).

Discography

; as Chicago Underground * 1998 Chicago Underground Duo ''12 Degrees of Freedom'' (

) * 1998 Chicago Underground Orchestra ''

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'' ( Delmark) * 1999 Chicago Underground Trio '' Possible Cube'' (Delmark) * 2000 Chicago Underground Trio ''

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'' (Delmark) * 2000 Chicago Underground Duo ''

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'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2001 Chicago Underground Quartet ''Chicago Underground Quartet'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2002 Chicago Underground Duo ''Axis and Alignment'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2004 Chicago Underground Trio ''

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'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2006 Chicago Underground Duo ''In Praise of Shadows'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2007 Chicago Underground Trio ''Chronicle'' (Delmark) * 2010 Chicago Underground Duo: ''Boca Negra'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2014 Pharaoh and the Underground (Chicago and São Paulo Underground with Pharoah Sanders) ''Primative Jupiter'' (

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) * 2014 Pharaoh and the Underground (Chicago and São Paulo Underground with Pharoah Sanders) ''Spiral Mercury'' (Clean Feed) * 2012 Chicago Underground Duo ''Age Of Energy'' (

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) * 2014 Chicago Underground Duo ''Locus'' (Northern Spy) * 2020 Chicago Underground Quartet ''Good Days'' (

Astral Spirits Records Astral Spirits Records is an independent record label specializing in free jazz, improvisation, and experimental music. Based in Austin, Texas, the label was founded in 2014 by musician Nathan Cross, who started Astral Spirits as a platform for ...

) ; as Sao Paulo Underground * 2006 Sao Paulo Underground ''Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres'' (Aesthetics) * 2008 Sao Paulo Underground ''The Principle of Intrusive Relationships'' (Aesthetics) * 2011 Sao Paulo Underground ''Tres Cabecas Loucuras'' (

/Submarine) * 2013 Sao Paulo Underground ''Beija Flors Velho E Sujo'' (Cuneiform/Infinity Dogs) * 2016 Sao Paulo Underground ''Cantos Invisiveis'' (Cuneiform) ; as Isotope 217 * 1998 Isotope 217 ''The Unstable Molecule'' (Thrill Jockey) * 1999 Isotope 217 ''Utonian Automatic'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2000 Isotope 217 ''Who Stole The I Walkman'' (Thrill Jockey) ; as Tigersmilk * 2003 Tigersmilk ''Tigersmilk'' (Family Vineyard) * 2005 Tigersmilk ''Tales From The Bottle'' (Family Vineyard) * 2007 Tigersmilk ''Android Love Cry'' (Family Vineyard) ; as Exploding Star Orchestra * 2007 Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra ''We Are All from Somewhere Else'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2008 Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra '' Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra'' (Thrill Jockey) * 2010 Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra ''Stars Have Shapes'' (Delmark) * 2013 Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra Featuring Roscoe Mitchell + Solo Works ''Matter Anti-Matter'' (

RogueArt RogueArt (also written Rogueart and Rogue Art) is a French independent record label based in Paris. It was founded by record producer Michel Dorbon in 2005 and specialises in jazz and improvised music. History RogueArt was founded by record p ...

) * 2013 Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Ensemble ''The Space Between'' (Delmark) * 2015 Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra ''Galactic Parables: Volume 1'' (Cuneiform) ; as solo and others * 1994 Rob Mazurek Quartet ''Man Facing East'' ( Hep) * 1995 Rob Mazurek Quintet ''Badlands'' (Hep) * 1997 Rob Mazurek Quintet ''Green & Blue'' (Hep) * 1999 Orton Socket ''99 Explosions'' (Moikai) * 2002 Rob Mazurek ''Amorphic Winged'' ( Walking Road) * 2002 Rob Mazurek '' Silver Spines'' (Delmark) * 2003 Rob Mazurek/

Liam Gillick Liam Gillick (born 1964, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist who lives and works in New York City.

''Thought Farming'' (En/Of ottrop-Boy * 2004 Rob Mazurek ''Music For Shattered Light Box and 7 Posters'' (Bottrop-Boy) * 2004 Rob Mazurek ''Sweet and Vicious Like Frankenstein'' ( mego) * 2005 Mandarin Movie ''Mandarin Movie'' (Aesthetics Records) * 2008 Rob Mazurek ''Abstraction on Robert D'Arbrissel'' (Adluna) * 2009 Rob Mazurek Quintet ''Sound Is'' (Delmark) * 2009 Rohrer/Mazurek/Takara/Barely ''Projections of a Seven Foot Ghost'' (Peligro) * 2010 Rob Mazurek ''Calma Gente'' (Submarine) * 2011 Starlicker ''Double Demon'' (Delmark) * 2012 Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet ''Stellar Pulsations'' (Delmark) * 2012 Rob Mazurek/ Carlos Issa ''Eclusa'' (Submarine) * 2013 Rob Mazurek ''Episodes'' (Wapapura) * 2013 Rob Mazurek Octet ''Skull Sessions'' (Cuneiform) * 2014 Rob Mazurek ''Mother Ode'' (

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vs Dempsey) * 2014 Rob Mazurek Alternate Moon Cycles ''Waning Crescent'' ( International Anthem Recording Co.) * 2014 Rob Mazurek Black Cube SP ''Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost'' (

Cuneiform Records Cuneiform Records is a record label in Silver Spring, Maryland. Founded in 1984, the label releases an mixture of musical styles, all with a Rock in Opposition aesthetic, including progressive jazz, jazz fusion, the Canterbury scene, and electr ...

) * 2015 Rob Mazurek ''Vortice of the Faun'' (Astral Spirits) * 2016 Rob Mazurek and

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''Alien Flower Sutra'' (International Anthem Recording Company)

References

External links

Official website

Rob Mazurek auf culturebase.net
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