Garrett List

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Garrett List (born September 10, 1943 in Phoenix, Arizona ; † December 27, 2019 ) was an American trombonist and composer who emerged in the field of new music as well as improvised music and jazz .

Live and act

List received music training as a singer and trombonist in the 1950s and performed in choirs, concert bands and symphonic orchestras . Then he discovered jazz , which he also followed at the beginning of his music studies. In 1965 he moved to New York City , where he graduated from the Juilliard School of Music , was influenced by Luciano Berio and founded the Juilliard Ensemble with Dennis Russell Davies . While working with this ensemble he met Henri Pousseur and Pierre Boulez , whose works he performed. In the next few years he also worked with John Cage and La Monte Young , but also with Karl Berger , Anthony Braxton and Steve Lacy . He became increasingly interested in free jazz and became the musical director of the New York Kitchen Center for Video and Music . Frederic Rzewski brought him into the improvisation ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva . He also toured Europe and North America with his own groups. In 1980 Henri Pousseur invited him to found an improvisation class at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège , in which he instructed musicians like Fabrizio Cassol , Kris Defoort and Michel Massot . As a composer he developed an eclectic style of “cosmopolitan music”, which he performed with his ensemble at festivals in Belgium and France, and created film scores (for films by Man Ray , Fernand Léger , Hans Richter or Paul Gonze). He also went on tour with the ICP Orchestra and made recordings with Johnny Copeland , the Willem Breuker Kollektief ( Driebergen-Zeist ) and Anthony Braxton.

Discographic notes

  • American Images (Horo Records, 1972)
  • Your Own Self (Opus One, 1973, with Jay Clayton , Jerry Kaplan, Joan La Barbara , Frederic Rzewski, Jon Gibson and others)
  • Fire and Ice (Lovely Records, 1978, with Youseff Yancy, Byard Lancaster , Ronald Shannon Jackson , Genie Sherman)
  • In and Out ( Igloo , 1985)
  • Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (Igloo 1991)
  • The Unbearably Light (Carbon 7, 1995)
  • The Voyage (Carbon 7, 1998)
  • Rwanda 94 (Carbon 7, 2001)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. Les Lundis D'Hortense, December 28, 2019, accessed December 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME List, Garrett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trombonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix (Arizona)
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2019