Charlie Collins (musician, 1952)
Charlie Collins (born September 26, 1952 ) is a British musician ( vibraphone , drums , percussion ) of free jazz and new improvisation music .
Live and act
Collins grew up in Sheffield ; at the age of eleven he played drums. In 1969 he began to deal with improvisational music, played in both R&B and free jazz formations in the 1970s and was involved in the industrial scene in England in 1978 . He belonged to the ensembles Clock DVA (as saxophonist) and The Box and recorded for the labels Industrial, Fetish and Doublevision. From the mid-1980s he toured Europe and taught improvisation at Nottingham Trent University , worked with dance groups and poets. He worked on the live soundtrack for Teinosuke Kinugasa's silent film Kurutta Ippēji ( Page of Madness ). With Moloko he appeared on Top of the Pops . Since the 2000s he has worked regularly with Martin Archer , in whose productions he also plays woodwind instruments and electronic devices, Sonny Simmons (since 2007), Beatrix Ward-Fernandez and the free folk collective The Hunter Gracchus . He also played in the Duology project with Ted Daniel and Michael Marcus and with Rob Brown and Daniel Levin .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Discographic information at Discus
- ↑ Festival 2006. In: www.frakture.org. February 25, 2008, archived from the original on August 20, 2008 ; Retrieved February 10, 2015 (information about the band Navigators).
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| SURNAME | Collins, Charlie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz and improvisation musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1952 |