Charles Eubanks

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Charles Andrew Eubanks III (born July 26, 1948 in Detroit ) is an American jazz pianist .

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Eubanks comes from a family of musicians; his cousins ​​are jazz musicians Robin , Duane and Kevin Eubanks . His mother was Perry Lee Eubanks (1925-1982); his father (* 1923) was a jazz trumpeter and band leader . He attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit and had lessons with a concert pianist and Arthur Labrew of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. His father had inspired him for jazz music from an early age; at the age of 11 he first played saxophone, then piano in the band The Soul Messengers , then with The Six Lads , which was directed by Harold McKinney . The group played arrangements of the music by Horace Silver and Art Blakey . From 1963 to 1968 he worked as a studio musician with Motown Records , 1967–1971 as a companion for dance ensembles at Wayne State University and 1971–1972 as a music teacher with Project Music in Detroit. In 1972 the first recordings were made with Wendell Harrison ( An Evening with the Devil ).

Eubanks moved to New York City in the 1970s. There he played u. a. in the quintet by Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land , also with Butch Morris , Rashied Ali , Dewey Redman ( The Struggle Continues ; ECM, 1982), Kenny Clarke (with whom he toured in Africa), Woody Shaw , Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers , in Frank Foster's Big Band, with Pharoah Sanders , Oliver Lake , Max Roach , Archie Shepp , David Fathead Newman , Sonny Fortune , Pony Poindexter , James Blood Ulmer and in David Murrays Big Band; he also played as a soloist in New York nightclubs.

In 1983 he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts ; In 1986 he appeared in the concert series Meet The Composer in the New York Public Library. Between 1986 and 1991 he was the music director of the City of New York Park Administration. In the field of jazz he was involved in 20 recording sessions between 1972 and 2003. In the 2000s, he released two piano solo albums, which received positive feedback in the specialist press.

Discographic notes

  • New Beginnings (CIMP, 2001)
  • Birds of Baghdad ( CIMP , 2003) solo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonard King and the Soul Messengers
  2. ^ New York Magazine August 13, 1984
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 19, 2016)
  4. ↑ Review of the Charles Eubanks album : Birds of Bagdad in Jazz Review ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzreview.com
  5. ^ Review of the album Charles Eubanks: Birds of Bagdad (2004) at All About Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Eubanks, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eubanks, Charles Andrew III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit