George Cremaschi

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George Cremaschi (* 1963 in New York City ) is an American free jazz and improvisation musician ( double bass , live electronics, composition ).

Live and act

Cremaschi studied music and composition in New York with Lisle Atkinson , Dave Holland , at the Jazzmobile in Harlem and composition at the Greenwich House Music School. He then lived in California (where he played with Vinny Golia , among others ) and in Prague. From the 1980s he worked with musicians from the American and European jazz and improvisation scenes such as Mats Gustafsson , Biggi Vinkeloe , Eugene Chadbourne , Rova Saxophone Quartet , Greg Goodman , Saadet Türköz , Ryuzo Fukuhara , Andrea Parkins , Nicolas Collins, Evan Parker , Trịnh Thị Minh Hà , Liz Allbee and Lê Quan Ninh , also interdisciplinary in the fields of dance, film, visual arts and literature.

His current projects include the formations KRK (with Matthew Ostrowski ), Rohr Rohr (with Dieb13 and Gino Robair ) and Lambs Gamble (with Fritz Welch and Eric Boros ). He is also co-founder of the Prague Improvisation Orchestra (PIO) with Petr Vrba . The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in jazz between 1994 and 2007 in 18 recording sessions. Cremaschi currently lives in Tábor (Czech Republic) as curator and administrator of the international arts residency center CESTA.

Discographic notes

  • Vinny Golia, George Cremaschi, Garth Powell : Win This Time (1998)
  • Greg Goodman, Mats Gustafsson, George Cremaschi: They Were Gentle and Pretty Pigs (The Beak Doctor, 2002)
  • Biggi Vinkeloe, George Cremaschi, Miya Masaoka , Gino Robair: Klang. Colour. Melody. ( 482 Music , 2004)
  • George Cremaschi / Bill Horvitz / Garth Powell / Jon Raskin : Shards from a Future Utopia (2006)
  • Petr Vrba / George Cremaschi: Villa K (Signals from Arkaim, 2013)
  • George Cremaschi, Irene Kepl, Petr Vrba: Resonators (Another Timbre, 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 11, 2018)
  2. ↑ George Cremaschi at echoraum
personal data
SURNAME Cremaschi, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City