Dave Rempis

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Dave Rempis at Club W71 , 2017

Dave Rempis (born March 24, 1975 in Wellesley , Massachusetts ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician (alto, tenor and baritone saxophone).

Live and act

Rempis grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, near Boston. His father is from Greece; his mother from Indianapolis. He started playing the saxophone at the age of eight; during high school he performed in his hometown. From 1993 he studied classical saxophone playing at Northwestern University with Frederick Hemke, as well as anthropology and ethnomusicology. As part of his studies, he spent a year at the International Center for African Music and Dance at the University of Ghana in Legon , where he studied African music and played with local highlife and reggae bands. After graduating from Northwestern (1997), he became a member of The Vandermark Five in Chicago in 1998 , led by Ken Vandermark , of which he is still a member. Tours of the United States and Europe followed. He also played in Vandermark's Territory Band and its Resonance Project as well as in the Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Quintet.

In addition, Rempis has led his own ensembles such as The Rempis Percussion Quartet and the Dave Rempis Quartet since the early 2000s . He also worked in various duo and trio projects (with Frank Rosaly and in the Ballister Trio with Fred Lonberg-Holm and Paal Nilssen-Love ). He played with Nate McBride , Tim Daisy and Jeb Bishop in the formation The Engines and in the quartet Bishop / Rempis / Kessler / Zerang . In the course of his career he also worked with musicians such as Paul Lytton , Axel Dörner , Peter Brötzmann , Hamid Drake , Steve Swell , Roscoe Mitchell , Fred Anderson , Nels Cline , Mars Williams and Joe McPhee . In 2006, Rempis was nominated in the Down Beat Critics's Poll in the Alto and Baritone Saxophone category in the Rising Star category.

In addition, he worked in Chicago as a concert organizer, u. a. for the concert series of the Elastic Arts Foundation , the Umbrella Music Festival and the concert series of the Downtown Sound Gallery 2006/07. He also organized the indie rock Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park.

Discographic notes

  • New Jazz and Improvisation ( 482 Music , 2003)
  • Dave Rempis Quartet - Out of Season (482 Music, 2004) with Anton Hatwich , Jim Baker, Tim Daisy
  • The Rempis Percussion Quartet - Circular Logic (Utech Records, 2005) with Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly, Tim Daisy
  • Rip Tear Crunch (482 Music, 2006)
  • The Rempis Percussion Quartet - Hunter-Gatherers (482 Music, 2007)
  • The Engines ( Okka Disk , 2007)
  • Cyrillic (482 Music, 2008), with Frank Rosaly
  • The Rempis Percussion Quartet - The Disappointment of Parsley ( Not Two Records , 2009)
  • The Engines - Wire and Brass (Okka Disk, 2010)
  • The Rempis Percussion Quartet - Montreal Parade (482 Music, 2011), with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
  • Ballister Trio: Mechanisms (Clean Feed, 2012)
  • The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Cash and Carry (Aerophonic, 2015), with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Tim Daisy, Frank Rosaly
  • Dave Rempis, Albert Wildeman , Ryan Packard : Polynia (Aerophonic, 2016)
  • The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Cochonnerie (2017), dto.
  • Lattis (2017) solo
  • Dave Rempis / Matt Piet / Tim Daisy : Hit the Ground Running (Aerophonic, 2017)
  • Dave Rempis // Tim Daisy: Dodecahedron (Aerophonic, 2018), with Jason Adasiewicz , Jim Baker , Fred Lonberg-Holm , Steve Swell , Katherine Young , Aaron Zarzutzki ´
  • Spectral: Empty Castles: (2018), with Darren Johnston , Larry Ochs
  • The Early Bird Gets (2019), with Brandon Lopez, Ryan Packard

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SURNAME Rempis, Dave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician (alto, tenor and baritone saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellesley , Massachusetts