Allan Chase
Allan Chase (* 1956 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American jazz saxophonist.
Live and act
Chase studied from 1980 at Berklee College of Music with Jaki Byard , at the Creative Music Studio with Anthony Braxton , Roscoe Mitchell , Karl Berger and George Lewis , at Arizona State University and Tufts University . He wrote his master's thesis on the music of Sun Ra .
From 1981 to 1995 Chase was a member of the Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet , with whom he recorded six albums and completed ten European tours. Since 1992 he has also been a member of Rashied Ali's quintet Prima Materia and has appeared on four of the group's albums. Further recordings were made a. with Gunther Schuller , John Zorn , Dominique Eade , Joe Morris and Stanley Cowell . As a sideman he worked a. a. with Alan Dawson , Teddy Kotick , Mick Goodrick , Lewis Nash , Fred Hersch and Andrew Cyrille .
In 1995 he published his debut album Dark Clouds with Silver Linings with his own quartet (with Ron Horton , Tony Scherr and Matt Wilson ) , which was included in the top ten list of jazz albums by the magazines Boston Globe , Jazziz and Boston Phoenix .
Web links
- Discography at Allmusic
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| SURNAME | Chase, Allan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phoenix (Arizona) |