Gary Valente

Gary Valente (born June 26, 1953 in Worcester (Massachusetts) ) is an American trombonist of modern creative jazz .

Live and act

After completing his studies, Valente worked primarily with Carla Bley (until 1996) and was also involved with her band on Nick Mason's album " Fictitious Sports " (1981). In 1982, he worked in the Liberation Music Orchestra of Charlie Haden with, with whom he also on the Berlin Jazz Festival occurred. He also played with Ed Schuller , but also with George Russell , Joe Lovano , George Gruntz , Andy Sheppard , Lester Bowie , Gato Barbieri , Paquito D'Rivera , Jean-Marie Machado , Matt Manieri and the "Jazz Warriors". Together with his colleagues Ray Anderson , Craig Harris and George Lewis he formed the a cappella trombone quartet "Slideride".

Valente is characterized by an "extremely powerful, proud trumpet sound" (according to Ssirus W. Pakzad).

Lexigraphic entries

• Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
• Ssirus W. Pakzad. In: Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .

Web links

• Sound carrier by Gary Valente in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gary Valente at Discogs (English)
• Biographical evaluation, with Photo (English)
• Discography at jazzindex.ch