Doug Wieselman

Douglas "Doug" Wieselman (born November 30, 1954 in Los Angeles ) is an American musician ( clarinet , bass clarinet , guitar , tenor saxophone) and composer. According to Wolf Kampmann , it should have “the softest and most dreamy clarinet tone in all of jazz history ”.

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Wieselman studied composition with James Tenney and Gordon Mumma at the University of California, Santa Cruz . Then he wrote theater music for the projects with the Flying Karamazov Brothers and director Robert Woodruff. His adaptation of Stravinski's L'Histoire du Soldat was performed by the Brooklyn Academy of Music at the Next Wave Festival . He also wrote music for various plays by Brecht such as Baal and The Good Man of Sezuan and worked in ballet with the choreographer Victoria Marks. In 1986 he was one of the founders of the large-format New York Composers Orchestra with Marty Ehrlich , Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb , with whom he performed his "Three Pieces for Wind Orchestra" in 1987. A few years later he founded the Kamikaze Ground Crew with Gina Leishman , Steven Bernstein and Peter Apfelbaum, which defines the terrain between jazz , klezmer and avant-garde and with whom he performed at the Donaueschinger Musiktage , among others . He also played with Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra and the groups of Wayne Horvitz, Bill Frisell , Robin Holcomb, John Zorn , Bobby Previte and Anthony Coleman . The Lounge Lizards of John Lurie , he served as a guitarist. It was not until 2002 that he released his first album in a trio with Jane Scarpatoni and Kenny Wollesen . He also worked with Yoko Ono , Tricky , Fred Frith , Lou Reed , Laurie Anderson , Sex Mob , Jenny Scheinman , Sanda Weigl , Guy Klucevsek and Karen Mantler .

At the RuhrTriennale 2007 he appeared with Dubistmeinichbindein .

Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .

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SURNAME	Wieselman, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wieselman, Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	los Angeles