Cleve Pozar

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Cleve Pozar (born August 8, 1941 in Eveleth (Minnesota) as Robert Frank Pozar ; † April 2019 ) was an American composer and drummer of modern jazz .

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Pozar, who initially played drums in dance orchestras as a teenager, was influenced by Philly Joe Jones during high school . He then studied from 1961 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , where he was introduced to Robert Ashley , Gordon Mumma and other composers of the New Music avant-garde through James Salmon . He took part in the ONCE festival as an interpreter. Since 1962 he was part of the trio of Bob James , which won the Collegiate Jazz Festival at Notre Dame University in the same year and recorded a first album, Conceptions (Mercury 1962). Pozar then moved to New York City to study mallet percussion. There he played in the band of saxophonist Ed Curran , with whom he also recorded for Savoy Records , and then also with Bill Dixon , who produced Pozar's first album under his own name for Savoy Records . In the late 1960s, he studied with Alan Dawson at Berklee College of Music in Boston , studied electronic percussion and played with Darius Brubeck . He performed internationally with the ARP Synthesizer Company Demo Band and then worked as a consultant for Kurzweil . In the 1980s he moved back to New York City, where he was trained in Batá drumming and worked as a music teacher. He authored two books on the batar rhythms, Chachalekpafun and Yakota . In the first decade of this millennium he performed with Cooper-Moore (with whom he had already played duo concerts in 1973/74) and directed a Free Funk Trio and a Coltrane Jazz Trio . He also worked as a studio musician.

Pozar received an award from the City of New York for his music education work, in which he developed a simple method for rhythm notation with the 1 E and A system .

Discographic notes

  • Cleve Pozar Let's Try It Again (self-published, 1999)
  • Bobby Naughton Nauxtagram (Otic, 1979)
  • Cleve Pozar Cleve Solo Percussion (self-published, approx. 1972)
  • Robert F. Pozar Good Golly, Miss Nancy (Savoy, 1967, with Mike Zwerin , Jimmy Garrison )
  • Bill Dixon Intents and Purposes: The Bill Dixon Orchestra (RCA-Victor, 1967)
  • Bob James Explosions (ESP, 1965, with Barre Phillips )
  • Various artists Music from the ONCE Festival (New World, 1961–1966)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hank Shteamer: He Did the Number: Cleve Pozar, 1941-2019. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Adam Lore: Cleve Pozar. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pozar, Cleve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pozar, Robert Frank (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Eveleth (Minnesota)
DATE OF DEATH April 2019