Tony Buck (born 1962) is an Australian drummer and percussionist.
[Spencer et al, (2007]
Buck, Tony
entry. Retrieved 22 February 2010. He graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (now
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music and known by the moniker "The Con") is a heritage-listed music school in Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the old ...
), becoming involved in the Australian
jazz
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scene.
Buck played in
Great White Noise
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with
Michael Sheridan and
Sandy Evans
Sandy Evans is an Australian jazz composer, saxophonist, and teacher. Recognition of her work has included receiving an Order of Australia Medal in 2010 for services to music. during 1983, then Women and Children First with
Sandy Evans
Sandy Evans is an Australian jazz composer, saxophonist, and teacher. Recognition of her work has included receiving an Order of Australia Medal in 2010 for services to music. . He is a founding member of
The Necks
The Necks are an Australian avant-garde jazz trio formed in 1987 by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. They play im ...
with
Chris Abrahams and
Lloyd Swanton
Lloyd Stuart Swanton (born 14 August 1960) is an Australian jazz double bassist, bass guitarist, and composer.
Swanton was a member of Dynamic Hepnotics in 1986McFarlan'Dynamic Hepnotics'entry. Retrieved 21 February 2010. and co-founded jazz ...
since 1987.
[McFarlan]
'Chris Abrahams'
entry. Retrieved 22 February 2010.[Spencer et al, (2007]
NECKS, THE
entry. Retrieved 22 February 2010. He is leader of
Peril, who he formed in Japan with
Otomo Yoshihide
is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics.
He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in ...
and
Kato Hideki
Kato Hideki (born 1962 in Nagoya, Japan; 加藤英樹, family name Kato) is a Japanese musician and composer. He was a seminal member of the Tokyo Noise music scene of the late 80s and early 90s, collaborating with Japanese experimental musician ...
, and astroPeril. He also formed the short lived L'Beato in the early 1990s, an
industrial
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-oriented outfit reminiscent of
Tackhead
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, which released one EP "The Piston Song".
In the early 1990s, Buck moved from Australia to
Amsterdam
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and later moved to
Berlin
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.
Discography
*''The Shape of Things to Come'' (1989)
*''Solo Live'' (1994)
*''Self_contained_underwater_breathing_apparatus''
*''Projekt Transmit'' (2009)
*''Knoxville'' (
Christian Fennesz
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/
David Daniell / Tony Buck, 2010)
*''Flatbosc & Cautery'' (Frank Gratkowski, Achim Kaufmann, Wilbert De Joode, Tony Buck, NoBusiness 2020)
See also
*
The Necks
The Necks are an Australian avant-garde jazz trio formed in 1987 by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. They play im ...
Awards and nominations
APRA Awards
The
APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the
Australasian Performing Right Association
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(APRA).
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,
2005
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, , "
Drive By" (with
Chris Abrahams and
Lloyd Swanton
Lloyd Stuart Swanton (born 14 August 1960) is an Australian jazz double bassist, bass guitarist, and composer.
Swanton was a member of Dynamic Hepnotics in 1986McFarlan'Dynamic Hepnotics'entry. Retrieved 21 February 2010. and co-founded jazz ...
) , , Most Performed Jazz Work
, ,
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,
2006
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, , "
Chemist
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" (with Abrahams and Swanton) , , Most Performed Jazz Work
, ,
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,
2019
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, "Body" (with Abrahams and Swanton)
, Song of the Year
,
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References
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External links
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1962 births
Living people
APRA Award winners
Australian jazz drummers
Male drummers
Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni
Musicians from Sydney
Male jazz musicians
The Necks members
Peril (band) members
NoBusiness Records artists