Avram Fefer

Avram Fefer

Avram K. Fefer (* 1965 in San Francisco ) is an American jazz saxophonist (soprano, alto and tenor saxophone) and clarinetist (clarinet, bass clarinet) of the Modern Creative .

Life

Avram Fefer graduated from Harvard University and studied music at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory . He then spent several years in Paris , where he worked with Archie Shepp , the band The Last Poets , Sunny Murray , Kirk Lightsey , Jack Gregg , Rasul Siddik , Graham Haynes and John Betsch . In Paris, Avram Fefer also dealt with West African and Arabic music and played with a large number of musicians from Senegal , Cameroon , Mali and Morocco . From the mid-1990s he began to record albums under his own name; He also worked with Bobby Few . After his return to New York, he continued his work as a composer and directed various ensembles and recorded a number of albums as a leader or co-leader, u. a. with Bobby Few, Tomas Ulrich , Ken Filiano and Jay Rosen . He has also worked on projects with David Murrays Big Band, the Butch Morris Orchestra, the Joseph Bowie Big Band, the Mingus Big Band , Frank Lacy's Vibe Tribe, the Rob Reddy Octet, Famoro Diabate's Kakande, the Adam Lane Octet, the Michael Bisio Quartet and from Burnt Sugar with. On the 1999 album Calling All Sprits with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Igal Foni he interpreted Mingus compositions such as “ Orange Was the Color of Her Dress ” and songs by Don Cherry (“Guinea”) and Ornette Coleman (“Mother of the Veil ").

Discographic notes

• 1994 - Art Sound Orchestra Other Worlds
• 1994 - Beigel's Daisy Toast Omnibus
• 1995 - Beigel's Daisy Toasts Eat that Beigel
• 1995 - Steve McCraven Song of the Forest Boogeraboo , with Archie Shepp
• 1998 - Manhattan New Music Project The Soul of Grace
• 2001 - Calling All Spirits , Avram Fefer Trio
• 2002 - Lucille's Gemini Dream , Avram Fefer Quartet ( CIMP )
• 2002 - Few and Far Between , Avram Fefer / Wilber Morris / Bobby Few
• 2004 - Shades of the Muse , Avram Fefer Quartet
• 2005 - Painting Breath, Stoking Fire , Avram Fefer / Michael Bisio Duo
• 2005 - Heavenly Places , Avram Fefer / Bobby Few Duo
• 2005 - Kindred Spirits , Avram Fefer / Bobby Few Duo
• 2006 - Connections , Michael Bisio Quartet
• 2006 - Sanctuary , Avram Fefer / Bobby Few Quartet
• 2007 - More Than Post Human , Burnt Sugar
• 2007 - Circle This , Michael Bisio Quartet
• 2009 - Ritual , Avram Fefer, Eric Revis, Chad Taylor
• 2011 - Eliyahu , Avram Fefer Trio with Michael Bisio and Chad Taylor

swell

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Bielefeld Jazz Catalog, 2001