Chris Speed
Chris Speed (* 1967 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American saxophonist (soprano, baritone and tenor saxophone) and clarinet player as well as composer and band leader of creative jazz and free improvisation .
Live and act
Chris Speed learned to play the classical piano from the age of five and the clarinet from the age of eleven; in high school he began playing the tenor saxophone. He studied jazz at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston . In 1992 Speed moved to New York City and was a leader or co-leader of various formations, mostly with the drummer Jim Black such as the band Pachora , as well as the ensemble Human Feel ; the band yeah NO ; the trio Iffy .
Furthermore, Speed worked in George Schuller's formation Orange Then Blue , with the artists of the New York avant jazz scene, such as Tim Berne's band Bloodcount ; John Hollenbeck's formation The Claudia Quintet ; Jim Black's band Alasnoaxis ; and the formation The Clarinets . In 1996 he worked with John Zorn in his Bar Kokhba project, in 2000 on Nils Wograms album Odd and Awkward and Franz Koglmann's album Venus in Transit .
Chris Speed participated in the for a Grammy nominated album A Blessing of the Ensemble John Hollenbeck Large with; Speed also played on recordings by Myra Melford ( The Same River, Twice , 1996), Michael Formanek 1996, Jerry Granelli , James Emery 1997, Mark Dresser , Susie Ibarra 1999, Erik Friedlander 1996, Satoko Fujii and several albums by Dave Douglas , as with his much-acclaimed album In Our Lifetime from 1994. In 2006 Speed was involved in the founding of the independent jazz label Skirl Records , which is supposed to document the musical events of the Brooklyn jazz community. Speed played on the first label releases, the album The Clarinets and Curtis Hasselbring's The New Mellow Edwards . The album Endangered Blood was released in 2011 , which he recorded with Jim Black , Oscar Noriega and Trevor Dunn . Work your magic appeared in 2013 with the same cast.
In 2015 he won the Down Beat Critic Polls in the Rising Star category.
Discographic notes
As a leader:
- 1997 - Yeah No (Songlines)
- 1999 - Deviantics (Songlines)
- 2000 - Trio Iffy ( Knitting Factory Records)
- 2000 - Emit (Songlines)
- 2004 - Swell Henry (Squealer)
- 2006 - The Clarinets (Skirl)
- 2017 - Platinum on Tap (Intakt), with Chris Tordini , Dave King
with Pachora
- 1997 - Pachora (Knitting Factory Records)
- 1999 - Unn (Knitting Factory Records)
- 2000 - Ast (Knitting Factory Records)
- 2003 - Astereotypical (Winter & Winter)
with human feel
- 1989 - Human Feel (Human Use)
- 1992 - Scatter ( GM Recordings )
- 1994 - Welcome to Malpesta (New World)
- 1996 - Speak to It (Songlines)
- 2007 - Galore (Skirl)
See also
Web links
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Remarks
- ↑ which also Jim Black , Skúli Sverrisson and Brad Shepik belonged
- ↑ with Andrew D'Angelo , Jim Black and Kurt Rosenwinkel
- ↑ with Black, Sverrisson and Cuong Vu
- ↑ with Ben Perowsky and Jamie Saft
- ↑ to which Berne, Jim Black, Michael Formanek and occasionally Marc Ducret belonged
- ↑ with Hollenbeck, Matt Moran , Ted Reichman and Drew Gress
- ↑ with Black, Sverrisson and Hilmar Jensson
- ↑ with Oscar Noriega and Anthony Burr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Speed, Chris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American saxophonist and clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington, USA |