Bobby Kapp
Bobby Kapp (* 11. April 1942 in Perth Amboy as Robert Kaplan ) is an American jazz - drummer (also vocals, percussion).
Live and act
Kapp, who grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey , sang as a child before turning to drums as a teenager. He studied percussion at the Berklee School of Music and toured Cuba with Cilla before moving to New York. From the mid-1960s he played there with avant-garde and free jazz musicians such as Byard Lancaster , Sirone and Noah Howard and Marion Brown (Three for Shepp) , with whom he made his first recordings in 1966. He also worked with Dave Burrell and Gato Barbieri during this time .
It was not until the 1990s that Kapp took part in recordings again when he played with Mike Richmond in the trio of woodwind player Bob Ackerman . With Richard Wyands and Gene Perla he formed the Fine Wine Trio ; an album of the same name was created in 1998. In a duo with Noah Howard, he recorded the album Between Two Eternities ( Cadence Jazz Records ) in 1999 . In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions from 1966, most recently in a duo with Matthew Shipp (Cactus) and with Cuban musicians on Cilla sin Embargo .
Web links
- Web presence
- Bobby Kapp at Allmusic (English)
- Bobby Kapp at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bandcamp
- ↑ portrait
- ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 20, 2016)
- ↑ Review of the album on Pitchfork
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kapp, Bobby |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaplan, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perth Amboy |