Geoff Goodman
Geoff Goodman (born February 14, 1956 in New York ) is an American jazz guitarist .
Live and act
Goodman had guitar lessons at the Westchester Conservatory in New York from 1968 to 1974 . After graduating from Harrison High School , he studied music at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst . His teachers included John Abercrombie , Archie Shepp and Vishnu Wood (jazz), David Reck (world music), and Lewis Spratlin and Randall McCellan (music theory and composition).
Between 1970 and 1978 Goodman performed with various bands in the New York area. In 1979 he moved to Europe and first settled in Freiburg and in 1986 in Munich. Here he worked in various own formations, u. a. in a duo with saxophonist Chris Hirson , the group Le Petit Chien and the world music group Misery Loves Company . He toured Germany, France and Switzerland and performed a. a. with Charlie Mariano , Mal Waldron , Tony Lakatos , Nicolas Simion , Ed Schuller , Larry Porter , Allan Praskin , Bill Elgart , Marty Cook , Jörn Pfennig , Rudi Mahall , Thomas Zoller and Embryo .
In addition, he taught jazz guitar from 1980 to 1986 at the Jazz & Rock School in Freiburg and since 1988 guitar, theory and ensemble management at the jazz project of the Free Music Center in Munich .
With the formation Geoff Goodman's Curiosities of Nature (with Fjoralba Turku voc, Kiyomi recitation, Till Martin ts, Andi Kurz b, Bill Elgart dr) he performed on March 28, 2012 in Munich's Studio 2 of Bayerischer Rundfunk; the recording was broadcast on April 6, 2012 in Jazztime on BR-Klassik.
Discographic notes
- Hirson & Goodman with Chris Hirson, 1987
- Paint It Blue with Chris Hirson, 1992
- Before & After , with Chris Hirson, 1992
- Nudism with Chris Hirson, Henning Sieverts , Peter Perfido , 1994
- Human Lives with Chris Hirson, 1992
- Misery Loves Company: Magia ke Miseria with Chris Hirson, Sylvia Kapernaros , Sakis Stratopoulos , Alex Haas , Shankar Lal , Tobias Ott , 1997
- Le Petit Chien: with Gunnar Geisse , Frank Möbus , Henning Sieverts, Peter Perfido, 1999
- Songs of Charles Ives and other American Songs with Alison Welles , Henning Sieverts, Bill Elgart , 2000
- Naked Eye with Felix Wahnschaffe , Rudi Mahall , Henning Sieverts, Peter Perfido, 2000
- Misery Lover Company: Ajar with Sakis Stratopoulos, Till Martin , Manolo Diaz , Shankar Lal, 2002
- Tall Tales and Dreams with Felix Wahnschaffe, Rudi Mahall, Henning Sieverts, Peter Prefido
- Song of Nature with Charlie Mariano, Fjoralba Turku , Bernd Hess, Tobias Ott
- Rosebud Plays the Music of Newport with Beate Sampson , Till Martin, Johannes Herrlich , 2009
- Goodman Bordenave Quintet Inverted Forest , with Matthieu Bordenave , Gerhard Gschlößl , Andreas Kurz , Bastian Jütte , 2015
- The Opposite of What , with Rudi Mahall, Matthieu Bordenave , Andreas Kurz , Bill Elgart, 2019
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Awards
Web links
- Geoff Goodman's homepage (English)
- Geoff Goodman's “Rosebud Trio” and his homage to the Newport Festival at enja , jazz newspaper
- Geoff Goodman at Discogs (English)
Individual references, sources
- ↑ Clear the stage in Studio 2 Geoff Goodman's Curiosities of Nature , Bayerischer Rundfunk, accessed September 12, 2012
- ^ List of the winners of the Music Prize of the City of Munich
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goodman, Geoff |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz guitarist and band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |