Bill Ware

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Bill Ware (born January 28, 1959 in East Orange as William A. Ware III ) is an American jazz musician who has emerged primarily as a vibraphonist and composer . He worked with distorted tones, some of which he produced with defective pickups . According to Wolf Kampmann , he is "an innovator of the vibraphone according to Gary Burton ."

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Ware, who comes from a musical family, started out as a bassist; After training at Jazzmobile , he taught at William Patterson College and founded the Latin band AM Sleep in 1986 with the Cuban drummer Roberto Borrell . Since the late 1980s he has been a member of the Jazz Passengers . In 1993 he presented the album Long and Skinny under his own name with the Club Bird All Stars . With Brad Jones and percussionist EJ Rodriguez he founded the trio Vibes , a kind of counterpart to Medeski, Martin & Wood , which released several albums until 2008, most recently a Stevie Wonder- Tribute album. He also played with Jones in the Y2K Jazz Quartet . With Marc Ribot he recorded the Ellington Tribute album Sir Duke in 2001 . He also presented two duo albums with the cellist Sara Wollan . He also toured with Steely Dan from 1993 to 1995 and played acid jazz with the Groove Collective and the Brooklyn Funk Essentials . John Lurie brought him to his concept album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits .

His composition Imitation of a Kiss premiered in 2002 with the Jazz Passengers, Deborah Harry and the BBC Concert Orchestra under the direction of Robert Ziegler at the Barbican Center in London. He has also written several symphonies and a Double Concerto for Vibraphone and Piano . He has also composed film scores .

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SURNAME Goods, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ware, William A. III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH East Orange