Garrison Fewell

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Garrison Fewell (born October 14, 1953 in Charlottesville , Virginia , † July 5, 2015 ) was an American jazz guitarist and university teacher who worked frequently in Europe during his career.

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Garrison Fewell grew up in Philadelphia ; At the age of eleven he learned to play the guitar and began to be interested in blues guitar . In 1967 he began performing as a professional musician in his hometown, playing pieces by the Delta Blues guitarists and improvising his own instrumentals. In 1972 he went on a tour of the Middle East ; after his return to the United States, he studied jazz guitar from 1973 at Berklee College of Music with Lenny Breau and Pat Martino . After graduating in 1977, Fewell is a professor at Berklee College of Music and author of two textbooks on jazz guitar, such as Jazz Improvisation for Guitar - A Melodic Approach . He has also written for music magazines such as Guitar Player, Guitar Club, Chitarre and Ax . In 1988 he came to Rotterdam on an academic exchange program. During this time he also worked with Dutch musicians such as Cees Slinger and performed in a duo with pianist Dave Frank at the North Sea Jazz Festival . In 1989 he moved to Paris, taught at the American School of Modern Music and performed in the city's famous jazz clubs. During an Italian tour there was an appearance at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia .

Then Fewell worked in a duo with the pianist Alex Ulanowsky on a teaching program for jazz theory and improvisation. The two musicians also performed at concerts and workshops in Holland, Belgium, Italy and Austria. In 1991 he came to Germany with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and taught a.o. a. at the Jazz & Rock School in Freiburg and at the Conservatories in Leipzig and Weimar, where he researched counterpoint and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Charlie Parker . In 1992 he taught in Cologne and Aachen; he also played with David Friesen at the Zelt-Musik-Festival in Freiburg.

In 1993 he recorded his debut album A Blue Deeper Than the Blue with Fred Hersch , Cecil McBee and Matt Wilson ; since then he has released a number of albums under his own name, which have been released by Accurate, Splasc (h) and Koch Records. He worked with musicians such as Achille Succi , Roy Campbell , Jim McNeely , George Cables , Steve LaSpina and Billy Hart .

From 1994 to 1999 Fewell held summer courses near Warsaw at the invitation of the Polish Jazz Society and played with Polish artists at the Solo / Duo / Trio Festival in Krakow . In 1995 he started working with the pianist Laszlo Gardony in Hungary ; the duo also performed at the Tatabanya Jazz Festival with Dusko Goykovich and Zbigniew Namysłowski , held joint summer courses and performed at the Copenhagen Jazzhus Montmartre . At the invitation of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE), Fewell taught with Bill Dobbins at the founding conference of the European IAJE in Maastricht in the late 1990s . From 1995 to 1999 he held jazz workshops at the Montreux Jazz Festival , where he also gave concerts with his trio. In 1996 he made a guest appearance with Tal Farlow at the Frankfurt Music Fair . Around 2000 he turned more to improvised music and recorded the album Big Chief Dreaming for Soul Note with John Tchicai ; The live recording of Good Night Songs ( Boxholder ) followed in 2006 as a trio with Tchicai and Charlie Kohlhase . He also worked with Khan Jamal and the Variable Density Sound Orchestra .

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  1. ^ Obituary in London Jazz News
personal data
SURNAME Fewell, Garrison
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz guitarist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottesville , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 2015