Terence Day (born 17 October 1940) is a musician specialising in
free improvisation
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, a poet and a visual artist. He is a founding member of the ''Continuous Music Ensemble'' and ''The People Band''. Some of his musical partners include
Derek Bailey,
Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford (born 6 March 1950) is a British musician who graduated from the University of York He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, electronics, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, suc ...
,
Phil Minton
Phil Minton (born 2 November 1940) is a British avant-garde jazz/ free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.
Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook' ...
,
Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.
Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...
, Charlotte Hug,
John Russell,
Rhodri Davis,
Misha Mengelberg
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,
Tony Oxley
Tony Oxley (born 15 June 1938) is an English free improvising drummer and one of the founders of Incus Records.
Biography
Oxley was born in Sheffield, England. A self-taught pianist by the age of eight, he first began playing the drums at s ...
,
Marten Altena,
Phil Wachsman and
John Tchicai
John Martin Tchicai ( ; 28 April 1936 – 8 October 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer.
Biography
Tchicai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a Danish mother and a Congolese father. The family moved to Aarhus, where he st ...
. He is a member of the improvising, genre-hopping quartet
Alterations, active from 1977 to 1986 and reforming in 2015.
Day is self taught but from a musical family. His father was a drummer and his brother Pat was a child prodigy and played with
Graham Bond
Graham John Clifton Bond (28 October 1937 – 8 May 1974) was an English rock/blues musician and vocalist, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s.
Bond was an innovator, described as "an important, und ...
.
Discography
* ''Look at Me'' (Nato, 1987)
* ''Interurruptions'' (Emanem, 2006)
* ''Solos'' (2016)
* ''Midnight and Below'' (Iluso, 2019)
References
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1940 births
Living people
people from Hemel Hempstead