CCMC

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Canadian Creative Music Collective or (almost always abbreviated since 1978) CCMC is a Canadian ensemble of new improvisational music that was founded in Toronto in 1974 .

history

CCMC at the Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. 2015

Founding members of the ensemble were Peter Anson ( guitar , later synthesizer ), Graham Coughtry ( trombone ), Larry Dubin ( percussion ), Greg Gallagher ( saxophone ); Nobuo Kubota (saxophones); Allan Mattes ( double bass , bass guitar , electronics ), Casey Sokol ( piano ); Bill Smith (saxophone) and Michael Snow (piano, trumpet , guitar, analog synthesizer). Gallagher, Coughtry and Smith left the group in 1976-7, Dubin died in 1978; In 1979 Anson also left. The remaining quartet was completed in 1981 by the drummer John Kamevaar. Sokol left the ensemble in 1988, followed by Kubota in 1991 after vocalist Paul Dutton joined the group. In 1994 the ensemble saw another line-up change when Damevaar and Mattes left and alto saxophonist John Oswald joined them.

The personnel changes had an impact on the musical style of the ensemble, which after first appearances in private rooms from 1976 appeared regularly every two weeks (from 1983 weekly) in the Music Gallery of Toronto: the musicians initially saw themselves as a "composing ensemble" and wanted to play music that is fluid, spontaneous and self-regulating. At first there were many points of contact with free jazz . After 1994 the ensemble developed in the direction of improvised electroacoustic music , which was also reflected in the instrumentation. Kubota switched to the blowwalker and Kamevar included the sampling . The ensemble has performed as a trio since 1995 (Dutton, Oswald, Snow), but occasionally also includes guest musicians such as Phil Minton or Christian Marclay .

The ensemble has been on tour since 1978, initially in Europe, and from 1982 also nationally. It appeared at international festivals such as Victoriaville (1984, 1997) as well as at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles and Expo 86 .

Discography

  • CCMC Vol. 1 (MGE-1; 1976)
  • CCMC Vol. 2 (MGE-2)
  • CCMC Vol. 3 (MGE-6)
  • Larry Dubin and the CCMC (3-MGE-15)
  • Free Soap (MGE-22)
  • Without a Song (MGE-31; 1980)
  • Decisive Moments (TLR 02, 1994)
  • Accomplices (VITOcd063, 1998)
  • CCMC + Christian Marclay (NMRx0003 / ART MET CD004, 2002).

literature

  • Norman Snider: Call it frontier music The Globe and Mail , June 22, 1977
  • Decade: The First Ten Years of the Music Gallery Toronto 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Concert review 2012 (Ottawajazzscene.ca)
  2. Review of Allmusic