Al MacDowell

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Al MacDowell (* around 1958 in New York ) is an American jazz musician ( bass guitar , composition, also keyboard , guitar , arrangement ), who is best known for his many years with Ornette Coleman .

Live and act

MacDowell learned the piano as a child from the age of six ; in high school the double bass was added as a second instrument before he became more interested in the bass guitar; he attended the Music and Art High School in Manhattan , where Coleman asked in 1975 about young bass talent. At the age of 17 he played Coleman, who immediately engaged him, so that he rehearsed prime time with his band the next day . He was a member of the band until the 1990s and played on most of Coleman's albums between 1987 and 1995. He was also one of Jayne Cortez's Fire Splitters , which Denardo Coleman directed.

He also worked with James Chance and the Contortions ( Paris 1980 Live Aux Bains Douches ), Michal Urbaniak ( Urbanator ), Public Enemy , Billy Joel , Luther Vandross , Puffy , LL Cool J , Whitney Houston , Jocelyn Brown , Martha Reeves , Warren Benbow and The City Boys Allstars . He also published as MNM with Erick Morillo and Jose Nuñez. Since 2007 he has been part of Coleman's quartet, which has two bassists. His Just Ornette Quartet includes the double bass player Tony Falanga from the Coleman Quartet, the pianist Pete Drungel and the drummer Tony Lewis.

Discographic notes

  • Ornette Coleman In All Languages (1987)
  • Time Peace ( Gramavision 1989)
  • Al MacDowell & Time Peace Messiah (Gramavision 1991)
  • Ornette Coleman Tone Dialing (1995)
  • Play (1995)
  • The Al Macdowell Project Get That Booty (Heavy Traxx 2004)
  • The City Boys Allstars Personal Thing (2015, with Blue Lou Marini , Tom Bones Malone , Lew Soloff , Daniel Sadownick, Andy Snitzer)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Just Ornette Quartet (Blue Note)
  2. ↑ a b Tony Falanga & Al MacDowell, Ornette Coleman's Two-Bass Tandem Bassplayer December 1, 2010
personal data
SURNAME MacDowell, Al
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA