Andrew White (musician)

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Andrew White (2010)

Andrew Nathaniel White III (born September 6, 1942 in Washington, DC ) is an American jazz and R&B musician ( bass guitar , alto saxophone , oboe , English horn ), author, musicologist and record producer .

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Andrew White grew up in Nashville , Tennessee and returned to his native Washington DC to study music theory and oboe at Howard University . He began his career as the leader of his own JFK Quintet , in which White played on alto saxophone, Ray Codrington as trumpeter, Harry Kilgore as pianist, Walter Booker on bass and Billy Hart on drums. Cannonball Adderley brokered the group a recording session at Riverside Records , in which the debut album New Jazz Frontiers from Washington was created, which was produced by Adderley; but after a second Riverside LP, Young Ideas , the band broke up in September 1963.

After graduating from Howard University, he continued his studies at Tanglewood and the Paris Conservatory of Music . In 1965 he appeared in the Blue Note Club , a. a. with Marc Hemmeler (piano) and Michel Goudry (bass). After returning to the United States, he worked for two years at the State University of New York in Buffalo on a Rockefeller Fellowship . As an oboist he played in the American Ballet Theater from 1968–70 in New York. After returning to Washington DC, he worked with Shirley Horn in the Showboat Lounge . In 1968 he went on tour with Stevie Wonder as bassist; then from 1970 to 1975 at 5th Dimension .

From the early 1970s White began to deal with the music of John Coltrane ; he also founded his label Andrew's Music , on which his solo album Andrew Nathaniel White II was released and a total of 40 albums followed, ranging from classical oboe music to funk music of the early 1970s. Áls Sideman White worked as a saxophonist on McCoy Tyner's LP Asante in 1970 and as an oboist on his album Cosmos . On the Weather Report albums I Sing the Body Electric (1972) and Sweetnighter (1973) he can be heard as a horn player and sometimes also as a bass guitarist; arranged as saxophonist on Bobby Watson's album ETA White and conducted a big band tribute dedicated to Coltrane at the Newport Jazz Festival in New York in 1976 . In the 1980s he worked with his own quartet (including Mal Waldron ) and played the alto and soprano saxophone; he worked with Elvin Jones , Beaver Harris (1983), the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Sextet (1987) and the saxophone sextet De Zes Winden (1999).

White transcribed Coltrane's solo on Afro-Blue ; in his music publisher Andrew's Music he later published 650 more solos by Coltrane and by Charlie Parker and Eric Dolphy . He also wrote books on music production and various short stories.

In 2007, White was honored as a saxophonist by Howard University with the Benny Golson Master Award .

Discographic notes

  • 1974 - Passion Flower (Andrew's Music)
  • 1975 - Marathon (Andrew's Music)
  • 1976 - Maxine Spotts and Brown (Andrew's Music)
  • 1976 - Seven Giant Steps for Coltrane (Andrew's Music)
  • 1979 - Fonk Update (Andrew's Music)
  • 1979 - I Love Japan (Andrew's Music)
  • 1979 - Andrew White Live in New York at the Ladies Fort (Andrew's Music)

Publications (selection)

  • The Works of John Coltrane, Vols. 1 - 14
  • Trane and Me (1981)
  • Everybody Loves The Sugar - The Book (2001).

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personal data
SURNAME White, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White III, Andrew Nathaniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC