Barry Guy
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Barry John Guy (born April 22, 1947 in London ) is a British double bass player (classical music, jazz, new improvisation music ) and composer . As a bass player, he uses various unconventional techniques, some of which he developed himself. According to Martin Kunzler , he is one of the most important musical personalities of the English music avant-garde, but also works with Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music , the London Bach Orchestra , the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , the New Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta together.
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Guy learned the trumpet and trombone in school. At the same time as evening school and training as an architect, he made music, first Dixieland , then swing , blues , bebop . Then he learned the double bass from Graham Collier and studied composition at Goldsmiths College. While continuing his music studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama , he played with John Stevens and Trevor Watts in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble . He mainly played in Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music until 1991 . In addition, however, he has worked in the trio of pianist Howard Riley , groups by T. Watts, Tony Oxley , in a duo with Peter Kowald , the Open Music Trio by Bob Downes and in the Michael Nyman band. Together with Derek Bailey and Paul Rutherford , he founded the Trio Iskra in 1903 (later Phil Wachsmann replaced Bailey).
He played with other members of the Musicians Cooperative in the London Jazz Composers Orchestra , whose core initially included the aforementioned Evan Parker , Kenny Wheeler and Paul Lytton . Guy provided most of the pieces for the large-format ensemble that existed for nearly 30 years and wanted to explore the relationships between individual improvisation and composition- organized ensemble sound. For Ekkehard Jost , Guy's Ode for Jazz Orchestra represents the “most successful attempt to combine orchestral notation and free jazz improvisation” in the 1970s.
In 1976 Guy's solo bass album Statement was released. He has been a member of the Parker-Guy-Lytton Trio since 1980, forms the group '' Supersession '' with Parker, Eddie Prévost and Keith Rowe and is also part of the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble founded by Parker in 1992 ( Memory / Vision 2002). He also plays in a duo with Parker and appears in trios with Marilyn Crispell and Paul Lytton or with Jacques Demierre and Lucas Niggli as well as with Agustí Fernández and Ramón López . In the group Elsie Jo he worked with Parker, Lytton, Conny Bauer , Irène Schweizer and Barre Phillips , with whom he also recorded duos. In his New Orchestra , founded in 1998, he plays with the pianist Marilyn Crispell, the saxophonists Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson and Hans Koch , the brass players Hannes Bauer , Herb Robertson , Per Åke Holmlander and the percussionists Paul Lytton and Raymond Strid. He recorded his work Study / Witch Gong Game II / 19 with the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver . In 2006 he took part in Evan Parker's Transatlantic Art Ensemble ( Boustrophedon ) and in 2016 on Jürg Wickihalder's album Beyond .
Since 1988 Guy has played together in baroque chamber music concerts with his wife, the Swiss baroque violinist Maya Homburger ; the two also founded the CD label Maya Recordings and are increasingly appearing in genre-crossing concerts in which both baroque music and improvisations can be heard.
Guy is also active as a composer of instrumental, chamber and orchestral music, including for the Rova Saxophone Quartet , the Kronos Quartet and for the oboist Robin Cantor ; he also writes vocal pieces, choral music and music for the theater.
Lexical entries
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Kunzler Jazz Lexicon
- ↑ E. Jost Europe Jazz 1960-80 , Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 313
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guy, Barry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guy, Barry John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British bass player and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |