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Bern Nix (born September 21, 1947 in Toledo , Ohio ; † May 31, 2017 in New York City , New York ) was an American no-wave and jazz guitarist .

Live and act

Nix has played guitar since he was eleven and studied at Berklee College of Music . He then came to New York, where he initially worked as a music teacher. Between 1974 and 1987 he was a member of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and was involved in the group's six recordings , from Dancing in Your Head (1976) to Of Human Feelings to In All Languages (1987).

Since 1985 he has led his own trio. Fred Hopkins and Newman Taylor Baker played on his first own album, Alarms and Excursions ( New World Records , 1993) . Since 2009 he has formed his trio (with bassist François Grillot and initially with drummer Jackson Krall ); he expanded it with Matt Lavelle to a quartet and released the album Negative Capability . In 2006 he released the solo album Low Barometer (Tompkins Square Records).

Furthermore, it was Nix member of Denardo Coleman organized and Jayne Cortez led Fire Pitters, with whom he also recorded several albums. He also recorded albums with Frank Lowe , Jemeel Moondoc and Lenore Von Stein and worked with Julius Hemphill , John Zorn , Marc Ribot , Elliott Sharp , Ronald Shannon Jackson , James Chance and the Contortions and Kip Hanrahan .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nate Chinen: Bern Nix, Guitarist Steeped in Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic Language, Dies at 69. In: WBGO . Newark Public Radio, Inc., June 1, 2017, accessed June 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Bern Nix: A History In Harmolodics. In: All About Jazz . August 24, 2009, accessed June 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ Florence Wetzel: Bern Nix Quartet: Negative Capability. In: All About Jazz . July 14, 2013, accessed June 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Nothing, Bern
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American no-wave and jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo , Ohio , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2017
Place of death New York City , New York , United States