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Harri Sjöström
Harri Sjöström (born February 29, 1952, in Turku, Finland) is a saxophonist who specializes in the soprano saxophone. Life and career Harri studied saxophone with Harry Mann, Leo Wright and Steve Lacy. He also studied photography and film at the Lone Mountain College in San Francisco Art Institute from 1974 - 1978. He attended the special class for improvisation at the L.M.C. led by trombonist Johannes Mager. After leaving the U.S., Harri moved to Vienna, Austria, which became his doorway to the European improvised music scene. Harri formed his first improvising groups and organised numerous projects in Finland and elsewhere. Brought many of the most notable innovators on the international improvisation scene to Finland. One of his early projects included a tour with Derek Bailey's "Company" which was their first in Finland. Harri moved to Berlin in 1985. In 1990, Harri met Cecil Taylor in Berlin and has been involved in a large number of projects with the legendary pianist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soprano Saxophone
The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly smaller in C), the soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass, and subcontrabass. The soprillo and sopranino are rare instruments, making the soprano the smallest saxophone in common use. The instrument A transposing instrument pitched in the key of B, the modern soprano saxophone with a high F key has a range from concert A3 to E6 (written low B to high F) and is therefore pitched one octave above the tenor saxophone. There is also a soprano saxophone pitched in C, which is uncommon; most examples were produced in America in the 1920s. The soprano has all the keys of other saxophone models (with the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Arndt
Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar * Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 1946–1984 *Bernhard, Count of Bylandt (1905–1998), German nobleman, artist, and author *Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911–2004), Prince Consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands * Bernhard, Margrave of Baden (born 1970), German prince *Bernhard Beibl (born 1979), Austrian musician * Bernhard Frank (1913–2011), German SS Commander * Bernhard Garside (born 1962), British diplomat *Bernhard Goetzke (1884–1964), German actor * Bernhard Grill (born 1961), one of the developers of MP3 technology *Bernhard Hantzsch (1875-1911), German ornithologist, Arctic researcher, and writer *Bernhard Heiliger (1915–1995), German sculptor *Bernhard Höfler (born 1986), Austrian politician *Bernhard Langer (born 1957), German golfer *Bernh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melancholy (Cecil Taylor Album)
''Melancholy'' is a live album by Cecil Taylor's Workshop Ensemble featuring Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley recorded on September 30, 1990, at the Bechstein Concert Hall in Berlin and released on the FMP label. accessed 4 September 2009 Reception The review by Steven Loewy states "Taylor is unquestionably more effective as an arranger in the small group (and solo) contexts to which he is accustomed. With the ensemble, there is a sense that ideas are not always fully realized, although, to be sure, there are remarkable moments throughout. Whether charges of incomplete or confusing rehearsals are accurate is immaterial. What matters is that the results, while g ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Always A Pleasure
''Always a Pleasure'' is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded during the Workshop Freie Musik at the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin on April 8, 1993, and released in 1996 on the FMP label. The album features a concert performance by Taylor with Longineu Parsons, Harri Sjöström, Charles Gayle, Tristan Honsinger, Sirone and Rashid Bakr. A recording of part five of the concert, titled "Fifth Pleasure", was released by FMP in 1998 on the Taylor compilation album ''Concrete''. Reception In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek called the group "an ensemble that plays so intrinsically 'together' that it feels like the band Taylor has been trying to assemble since the death of his altoist, Jimmy Lyons", and wrote: "This is easily the best large-unit Taylor record of the '90s. Fans and curiosity seekers would be well-advised to seek it out and prepare themselves to be blown away by the depth and dimension Taylor's musical soul reveals when it is challenged and upheld by such a phenom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Light Of Corona
''The Light of Corona'' is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded during the "Total Music Meeting" at the "Podewil", the headquarters of the Kulturprojekte Berlin non-profit organisation, on November 3, 1996, and released in 2003 on the FMP label. The album features Taylor with eight other musicians, and is a recording of two sections of a piece with a total duration of over an hour. The same group recorded the album '' Almeda'' the previous day. In the album liner notes, Volker Spicker wrote: "This concert reorganised your own consciousness, took you to spheres previously unknown, took unexpected turns, concentrating on the essential things, on the living, showed the meaning of being free and creative, of being alive. The music simply mirrored the infinite processes taking place within each of us and around us at the same time, processes which equal life, inspiring sensitivity and attentiveness... The precondition is being prepared to let go of expectations, the well-known, to let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almeda (album)
''Almeda'' is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded during the "Total Music Meeting" at the "Podewil", the headquarters of the Kulturprojekte Berlin non-profit organisation, on November 2, 1996, and released in 2004 on the FMP label. The album features Taylor with eight other musicians, and is a recording of a single performance lasting over an hour. The same group recorded the album ''The Light of Corona'' the following day. In 2012, FMP also released ''Almeda (To Matie)'', with the same musicians, as part of their Archive Edition. In the album liner notes, Volker Spicker wrote: "The diversity of musical relationships within the ensemble, the profusion of changes and the form of the entity create a process which is as manifold as life and nature itself. If you allow yourself to open up, the music raises the sensitivity, the attention for every process, for life in general in oneself. As in trance, the preconceived patterns of perception which normally put the world in a kind of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Krall
''Jackson Krall Jr.'' (born October 12, 1949) is a drum maker. Born in Detroit, through the years Jackson's instruments have found their way into the hands of the world's greatest drummers and percussionists, and can be heard on recordings as well as in live performance by many bands, orchestras, and the most popular Broadway and Off-Broadway shows like " Lion King" and "Blue Man Group". In 1984, under the leadership of Toni and Celia Nogueira, Jackson was a founding member and helped write the bylaws of New York's first samba Samba () is a broad term for many of the rhythms that compose the better known Brazilian music genres that originated in the Afro-Brazilians, Afro Brazilian communities of Bahia in the late 19th century and early 20th century, It is a name or ... school, the Empire Loisaida Samba School (Escola de Samba Empire Loisaida). References * ''The New York Times'', June 22, 2007, "A Trumpeter in His 80s Feeds the Fires of His Revolution", Nate Chinen, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Iridium, Vol
Live may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film * ''Live'' (2014 film), a 2014 Japanese film * ''Live'' (2023 film), a Malayalam-language film *'' Live: Phát Trực Tiếp'', a Vietnamese-language film * ''Live'' (Apocalyptica DVD) Music *Live (band), American alternative rock band * List of albums titled ''Live'' Extended plays * ''Live EP'' (Anal Cunt album) * ''Live EP'' (Breaking Benjamin EP) * ''Live'' (Roxus EP) * ''Live'' (The Smithereens EP) *''CeCe Peniston (EP Live)'' *''Ozzy Osbourne Live E.P.'', 1980 *''Live EP (Live at Fashion Rocks)'', by David Bowie * ''Live EP'' (The Jam EP) Songs * "Live" (Russian song) * "Live" (Superfly song) * "Live" (The Merry-Go-Round song) *"Live", by B'z from ''Highway X'', 2022 Radio *BBC Radio 5 Live *CILV-FM, branded LiVE 88.5, a radio station in Ottawa, Canada Television * ''Live'' (South Korean TV series), a 2018 South Korean television series *''Live'' (Danish TV series) *Live! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan Honsinger
Tristan Honsinger (October 23, 1949 – August 5, 2023) was an American cellist active in free jazz and free improvisation. He is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and guitarist Derek Bailey. Born in Burlington, Vermont, United States, Honsinger was given music lessons from a very early age, as his mother had hopes of creating a chamber orchestra together with his brother and sister. At the age of 12, Tristan would give concerts on a nearly weekly basis. He studied classical cello at the New England Conservatory in Boston before moving to Montreal in 1969 to avoid the draft. While in Canada, he became interested in improvisational music. Honsinger moved to Europe in 1974 and was active throughout the continent. He operated out of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Honsinger had a striking appearance, with body language reminiscent of that of a slapstick actor. Honsinger experimented with a combo of three string-players (violin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lovens
Paul Lovens (born 6 June 1949) is a German musician. He plays drums, percussion, singing saw, and cymbals. He has performed with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. He was born in Aachen, Germany. In the early 1970s, he was part of a trio with pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. Since then he has worked with Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström, Günther Christmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Brötzmann, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Mats Gustafsson, Thomas Lehn, Phil Wachsmann, Rajesh Mehta and Joëlle Léandre. He also played with Florian Schneider and Ebehard Kranemann in an early incarnation of Kraftwerk. Since 1967, Lovens has run the record label Po Torch with Paul Lytton. Discography As leader * ''Voerkel/Frey/Lovens'' (FMP, 1976) * ''Carpathes'' with Michel Pilz, Peter Kowald (FMP, 1976) * ''Was It Me'' with Paul Lytton (Po Torch, 1977) * ''Paul Rutherford/Paul Lovens'' (Po Torch, 1978) * ''Moinho Da Asneira'' with Paul Lytton (Po Torch, 1980) * ''Weav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 jazz and free improvisation. He has pioneered or substantially expanded an array of extended techniques. Critic Ron Wynn describes Parker as "among Europe's most innovative and intriguing saxophonists...his solo sax work isn't for the squeamish." Early influences Parker's original inspiration was Paul Desmond. Parker soon discovered the music of John Coltrane, who would be the primary influence throughout his career. Other important early influences were free jazz artists Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler and Jimmy Giuffre. Since the 1990s the influence of cool jazz saxophone players has also become apparent in his music, with Parker recording tributes to Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz on '' Time Will Tell'' (ECM, 1993) and '' Chicago Solo'' ( Okka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pianist
A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, rock and roll. Most pianists can, to an extent, easily play other musical keyboard, keyboard instruments such as the synthesizer, harpsichord, celesta, and the organ (music), organ. Pianists past and present Contemporary classical music, classical pianists focus on dedicating their careers to performing, recording, teaching, researching, and continually adding new compositions to their repertoire. In contrast to their 19th-century counterparts, they typically do not engage in the composition or transcription of music. While some classical pianists may specialize in accompaniment and chamber music, a smaller number opt for full-time solo careers. Classical Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart could be considered the first concert pianist, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
