Alan Laurillard
Alan Laurillard (born April 20, 1946 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian saxophonist, keyboard player, sampler, arranger and composer of jazz and improvising music who lives in the Netherlands .
From 1955 to 1963 he played alto saxophone in the "North Vancouver School Orchestra" (where he studied music theory and composition privately with Gordon Webster in Vancouver) and from 1959 to 1972 he was semi-professional - in addition to studying mechanical engineering - in his own rhythm and blues - soul - and rock groups as well as in a big band with which they became Canadian champions. In 1973 he moved to the Netherlands. In the 1980s he led the “Free Funk” group “Noodband” (founded in 1980, with her at the Berlin Jazz Days and the New Jazz Festival Moers in 1982 , where they recorded the live album “Shiver”) and was then musical director of the quintet of the singer Greetje Bijma . In his then home town of Groningen , he founded the “Tam Tam Fanfare”. He was involved in various experimental musical projects (e.g. “Beat Dreams” with Franky Douglas and Martin van Duynhoven or, from 1997, “Seafood” with Wolter Wierbos , flautists Mark Lotz and Gerard Ammerlaan ) and directed workshop orchestras outside of Holland also in Germany, Mexico, Poland and Kenya. In the new millennium he led (with others) the alternative hip-hop band “Fresh Crew”, the percussion orchestra “Slam Beat City”, the semi-electronic formation “Beat Sharks” and the 18-man band “ZuiderZee Orkest”, which, in its own words , acts on the border between new music , techno, underground, electronic and improvising music. He also arranged for the North Dutch Orchestra and the Metropole Orchestra .
With his foundation Linkbeat, founded in 1996 (also the name of his label), he organizes his projects, for example a (church) organ festival for new music in Luchtkasteling .
In 1982 he received the Boy Edgar Prize . He has lived in Utrecht since 2000 .
Web links
- Works by and about Alan Laurillard in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alan Laurillard at Discogs (English)
- Interview 2004 (Dutch)
- Portrait (Muziekencyclopedie) (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to Wim van Eyle u. a. Jazz & Geimproviseerde Muziek in Nederland , Het Spectrum 1978
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laurillard, Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian composer and saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , British Columbia |