Chris Corsano

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With the Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language 4TET at Club W71 , 2019
Chris Corsano at a concert at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard, Seattle 2009. Photo by Joe Mabel

Chris Corsano (* 1975 ) is an American rock , jazz and improvisation musician ( drums ).

Life

Growing up in New Jersey, Corsano began his career as a rock musician and played punk in high school before engaging in improvisational music while studying at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. There he played in the band 13 Gauge with guitarist Aaron Mullan , in 1996 in the No-Neck Blues Band , with Harry Pussy and the Flaherty-Colburne Quintet around Paul Flaherty . In the following years he lived in New York City, Edinburgh and Manchester. In 2005 he made several albums in Japan with Jim O'Rourke and Darin Gray , as well as with Akira Sakata ( Friendly Pants , 2006). A series of solo recordings followed by Corsano, such as The Young Cricketer (2006) and Blood Pressure . From 2007 he worked with the singer Björk ( Volta ), also with the formation Six Organs of Admittance by Matt Valentine and Erika Elder. In the field of jazz he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 2000 and 2010. a. with Nels Cline , Paul Dunmall , John Edwards , Joe McPhee , Evan Parker , Wally Shoup and Nate Wooley .

Discographic notes

  • Cold Bleak Heat: It's Magnificent But It Isn't War (2003), with Paul Flaherty, Matt Heyner, Greg Kelley
  • Evan Parker / John Edwards / Chris Corsano: A Glancing Blow ( Clean Feed Records , 2006)
  • Paul Dunmall / Chris Corsano: Identical Sunsets ( ESP-Disk , 2008)
  • Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain II (Important, 2009)
  • Sych: Lunar Roulette (Strange Attractors 2010), with Wally Shoup, Bill Horist, C. Spencer Yeh
  • Joe McPhee: Under a Double Moon (Roaratorio, 2010)
  • Chris Corsano / Sylvie Courvoisier / Nate Wooley : Salt Task (2017)
  • Steve Baczkowski / Brandon Lopez / Chris Corsano: Old Smoke (Relative Pitch, 2019)
  • Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano: No Place to Fall (Astral Spirits, 2019)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 29, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Corsano, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock, jazz and improvisation musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH 1975