Bill Kirchner
William Joseph "Bill" Kirchner junior (born August 31, 1953 in Youngstown , Ohio ) is an American jazz saxophonist (especially soprano, but also tenor, alto), jazz teacher, record and radio producer, jazz historian, band leader , Composer and arranger .
Live and act
Kirchner played the clarinet at the age of seven, the saxophone at the age of 12 and the flute at the age of 14, a. a. in high school band. He received his bachelor's degree in literature from Manhattan College in New York City in 1975 . He studied privately with Lee Konitz and Harold Danko and later with an NEA scholarship arrangement with Rayburn Wright at the Eastman School of Music .
He then moved to Washington, DC , where he a. a. in the Big Band of Mike Crottey, in the band of Bernhard Sweetney and led his own groups. From the late 1970s he also wrote a. a. for Down Beat , Jazz Magazine, the Washington Post and the later JazzTimes . In 1980 he moved back to New York, where he founded the "Bill Kirchner Nonet", which plays Kirchner's own compositions and arrangements. His debut album "What is to be Frank" was released in 1983 (Sea Breeze).
As a producer and publisher of reissues, he worked from 1992 for labels such as Blue Note Records , Fantasy Records , BMG , Mosaic Records , Columbia Records , Verve Records . He is a lecturer in jazz theory and history at New School University in New York City and also teaches at the Manhattan College of Music. In 1996 he received a Grammy for the liner notes to Miles Davis and Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings. He was also involved in the NEA's Oral History Program in 1979 (he interviewed Eddie Sauter , among others ) and later in that of the Smithsonian.
Kirchner played a. a. with Anita O'Day , Sheila Jordan (with his nonet at the Chicago Jazz Festival), Mel Lewis , Tito Puente , Mario Bauzá , Michael Abene , Marc Copland , Reggie Johnson , Jackie Cain . As an arranger he worked a. a. for Dizzy Gillespie (“Tanga” for “ Live at the Royal Festival Hall ”), Bob Wilber and Lee Konitz . In 2014 he presented the album Lifeline (Jazzheads), which he had recorded in 2001 with musicians such as Dick Oatts and Ralph LaLama . The album Evening of Indigos (JazzHeads) followed in 2015 .
In addition to the saxophone, he also plays the flute and clarinet.
Fonts
- Editor “The Oxford Companion to Jazz”, Oxford University Press 2000, ISBN (voted Best Jazz Book 2001 by the Jazz Journalist Association).
- Published by A Miles Davis Reader, Smithsonian Institution Press 1997
Web links
- Biography from his homepage
- Biography in Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
- Jason Ankeny biography
- Discography
supporting documents
- ↑ Core Faculty of Jazz Studies at The New School , accessed October 19, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirchner, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirchner, William Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz saxophonist, arranger, composer, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Youngstown , Ohio |