Anthony Coleman

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Anthony Coleman at the 2012 soundcheck

Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( piano , keyboard , trombone , vocals , composition ).

Live and act

Coleman took lessons from Jaki Byard and studied composition at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Yale School of Music. He also took part in a seminar by Mauricio Kagels at the Center Acanthes in Aix-en-Provence . Then he returned to New York City , where he became known for playing with John Zorn . He was involved in the recording of Zorn's albums Cobra , Kristallnacht , The Big Gundown , Bar Kokhba and Spillane . He also worked with Elliott Sharp , David Moss , Dave Douglas , Guy Klucevsek , Marc Ribot ( Los Cubanos Postizos ), David Krakauer , Shelley Hirsch , Greg Cohen , Joey Baron and other musicians from the downtown scene , with whom he is still connected to this day. Together with Roy Nathanson he ran several projects and released albums such as Lobster and Friend , where avant-garde jazz was combined with Jewish entertainment. At the RuhrTriennale 2005 he presented Sanda Weigl with Gypsy in a Tree .

His own bands Sephardic Tinge and The Selfhaters , with whom he toured in Europe and recorded several albums, reflect his interest in Jewish culture . On With Every Breath he was the first jazz musician to record a Sabbath celebration in a New York synagogue , in which rabbis and cantors as well as numerous members of the downtown circle were involved. In 2006 he performed songs by the Yiddish composer and Holocaust victim Mordechaj Gebirtig for Shmutsige Magnaten .

Coleman gave the downtown scene special impulses as a composer. Particularly characteristic is the "balance between extreme tone design and a filigree, romantic awareness of melodies" (W. Kampmann). He composed for Bang on a Can , for harpist Carol Emanuel and for Klucevsec. In the spring of 2003 he taught at Bennington College in Vermont . In 2004 Coleman was at the center of the three-day festival Abstract Adventures in Brussels . He has been with the New England Conservatory since 2005 .

Anthony Coleman is married to the artist Ljiljana Randjic.

Discographic notes

  • The End of Summer ( Tzadik , 2014)
  • Pushy Blueness (Tzadik, 2006)
  • Shaky magnates. Coleman Plays Gebirtig (Tzadik, 2006)
  • With Every Breath: The Music Of Shabbat At BJ (Knitting Factory Works, 1999)
  • Selfhaters (Tzadik, 1996; with Doug Wieselman , Michaël Attias , Fred Lonberg-Holm , Jim Pugliese )
  • Sephardic Tinge (Tzadik, 1995)
  • Lobster & Friend (Knitting Factory Works, 1993)
  • Disco by Night (Avant, 1992)

Compositions (selection)

  • Latvian Counter-Gambit, for chamber orchestra
  • Mise en abime
  • Goodbye and good luck
  • Dancers / Meet The Composer

Lexigraphic entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c A. Coleman Anthony Coleman and Klezmer and Jewishness , New Music Box , January 1, 2005
  2. ↑ Layne, J .: Anthony Coleman Biography , Allmusic
  3. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/24/style/anthony-coleman-marries-miss-randjic-in-yugoslavia.html accessed on December 15, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Coleman, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York