Dennis Luxion

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Dennis Luxion (* 1952 in Springfield , Illinois ) is an American pianist , arranger and composer of modern jazz and music teacher .

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In the early 1970s, Dennis Luxion studied piano with Roger Shields at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , composition with Frederic Rzewski , Philippe Boesmans and George Flynn, Indian music with Nada Brahmananda , Latin percussion with Geraldo de Oliveira and West African percussion with Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie.

In the 1980s he worked in Belgium, Germany and France with Rachel Gould , Stella Levitt and from 1979 to 1983 with the trumpeter Chet Baker , for whom he also wrote the composition Prayer for the Newborn . During this time he also played in Monika Linges' quartet . After his return to the United States, he was active in the Chicago jazz scene , where he performed with his own trio and quintet, at The Green Mill jazz club with the Green Mill Quartet. In 1996 he released the album Ennead: Nine Songs for Jazz Quartet under his own name . Between 2008 and 2011 he was musical director of the Power of Oneness Spiritual Center in Hyde Park , as well as arranger and musical director of the Jazz Fauré Project and the Chet Baker tribute Deep in a Dream with Oscar Brown Jr. and James Gavin . In 2012 he was sent by the US State Department through South Africa with Dennis Luxion / Michael Raynor Quartet in the program Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad of Jazz at Lincoln Center .

In the 1980s he taught at the Jazz Studio in Antwerp and at the Séminaire de Jazz of the Royal Conservatory of Liège . He currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

Discographic notes

  • Chet Baker: Leaving (Intercord, 1980)
  • Stella Levitt: Stella Levitt (Polydor, 1981)
  • Chet Baker Group Live - Round Midnight (Circle Records, 1982)
  • Rachel Gould: The Dancer (Trion 1982)
  • Diane Delin & Dennis Luxion: Duality (Blujazz 2004)
  • Petra van Nuis & Dennis Luxion: Because We're Night People (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bob Rusch: Cadence, Volume 22 (1996), p. 102
personal data
SURNAME Luxion, Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist, arranger and composer of modern jazz and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield (Illinois)