Alan Braufman

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Alan Michael Braufman (born May 22, 1951 in Brooklyn ) is an American jazz musician ( alto and soprano saxophone , flute , composition ), who also appears as Alan Michael .

Live and act

Braufman graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston . Back in New York City, he and his fellow student Cooper-Moore moved into an empty building in Manhattan on Canal Street , which developed into a hub of the loft jazz scene. In 1975 Braufman's debut album Valley of Search appeared on the India Navigation record label ; the group included Cooper-Moore, Cecil McBee , David Lee and Ralph Williams. (Its 2018 new edition received 4½ stars in Down Beat and was also featured in JazzTimes .)

Braufman also worked as a saxophonist with William Hooker , Carla Bley , The Psychedelic Furs and Philip Glass . He began performing as Alan Michael in the 1980s. In 1988 he released the album Lost in Asia under this name at Passport Jazz , in which the guitarists Bill Frisell and Sid McGinnis were involved. In 1995 Alan Michael released the album As Daylight Fades , on which Omar Hakim played drums.

Braufman currently lives in Salt Lake City ; In 2016, his band was nominated as "Best Jazz Band" by Salt Lake City Weekly . In 2020 he released the album The Fire Still Burns , on which he worked with James Brandon Lewis , Andrew Drury , Ken Filiano and again Cooper-Moore.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael C. Heller: Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s . University of California Press, Oakland, CA 2017, ISBN 978-0520285415 .
  2. ↑ Hear Alan Braufman's Valley of Search - The Wire .
  3. ↑ Valley of Search at Allmusic (English)
  4. ^ Michael J. West: Alan Braufman: Valley of Search (review). Down Beat, August 2018, accessed May 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Alan Braufman: A Valley Worth Searching
  6. ↑ As Daylight Fades on Allmusic (English)
  7. ↑ Alan Michael Band .
  8. ↑ Randy Harward, Kimball Bennion, Westin Porter, Gavin Sheehan, Brian Staker: Best of Utah Music 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Braufman, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braufman, Alan Michael (full name); Michael, Alan (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn