Chris Lightcap

Chris Lightcap

Chris Lightcap (* 23. April 1971 in Latrobe , Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz - bassist and band leader.

Live and act

Lightcap grew up in Westmoreland County and worked with Joe Morris , Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor since the mid-1990s after arriving in New York . In 1996 he appeared with Lisa Parrott and Heinrich Köbberling in the Knitting Factory in the trio PLK, which released the album Bab Bab (Goat Angel Records) in 1998 and toured Germany. In 1997 he worked on Rob Brown's CIMP production Scratching the Surface .

From 1998 he played in a trio with Whit Dickey , Rob Brown ( Transonic ) and in a quartet of Joe Morris with Mat Maneri , Nate McBride and Jerome Dupree ( A Cloud of Black Birds ). In 1999 he played in the band of saxophonist Michaël Attias ( Credo ) and recorded the album Lay-Up on the label Fresh Sound Records (New Talents) , on which Tony Malaby , tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry and drummer Gerald Cleaver participated; with Cleaver and McHenry he also played on the album In Metropolitan Motion by pianist Ben Waltzer and with Cleaver on the trio album Light Made Lighter by pianist Craig Taborn .

Lightcap's second album Bigmouth followed in 2002 . In 2003 he played in the band of drummer Joe Smith ( Melodic Workshop ). Lightcap has also worked with Marc Ribot , Regina Carter , Mark Turner , Sheila Jordan , James Carter , Butch Morris , Ben Monder , Chad Taylor and Tom Harrell .
According to the authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton, the model for Lightcap's group style with the use of two saxophonists is the piano-less group of Ornette Coleman of the 1960s. In 2018 he worked on David Berkman's album Six of One ; In 2019 he released the album Superbigmouth , on which Craig Taborn , Tony Malaby , Gerald Cleaver , Jonathan Goldberger , Chris Cheek and Curtis Hasselbring had collaborated.

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• Bielefeld Catalog / Jazz , 2002, ISSN  0171-9505
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 9th edition Penguin, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0 .