Giuseppi Logan

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Giuseppi Logan (2010)

Giuseppe "Giuseppi" Logan (born May 22, 1935 in Philadelphia , † April 17, 2020 in Queens , New York City ) was an American free jazz musician . Logan played the alto and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, piano and the Pakistani oboe .

Live and act

Giuseppi Logan was initially self-taught. At the age of 15 he played in Earl Bostic's band and later studied at the New England Conservatory . In 1964 he moved to New York and worked with musicians from the New York avant-garde scene such as Archie Shepp , Pharoah Sanders and Bill Dixon , took lessons from Dixon, who loved his music, and played in his group. First, he had to "bring great difficulties people to play his music." According to Dixon's memories members of Logan's band were finally pianist Don Pullen , bassist Eddie Gomez and percussionist Milford Graves , who gave him a recording session for ESP-Disk left , with technical complications. After Pullen's departure, Dave Burrell played in this ensemble. Logan was also a member of Byard Lancaster's band ; he toured with singer Patty Waters and was involved in recordings with her. Logan recorded two albums under his own name for the avant-garde label ESP-Disk; he also worked on an album by Roswell Rudd , which was later released on Impulse! Records appeared. An announcement from ESP-Disk provided for a third album by Logan, which was not realized (announced as ESP-1018, The Giuseppi Logan Chamber Ensemble In Concert ). Label owner Stollman points out Logan's drug problems.

“Nobody sounded like Giuseppi [Logan] in an ensemble. In his game he held his head far back; he explained: "This way my throat is wide open", so he could draw in more air. He played four octaves on the alto saxophone. What set him apart from others as an improviser was the way he placed his notes and thus created a certain sound that the others in the group would follow. His pieces were very attractive for this reason; Giuseppi had his very own views on music ... "

- Bill Dixon
Logan in Tompkins Square Park , New York City (2009)

In the early 1970s, Giuseppi Logan disappeared from the jazz scene; his wife had him admitted to a psychiatric hospital for drug use . He spent years there, after which he lived as a vagabond in Norfolk, Virginia for decades . In 2008 his sister gave him a saxophone and a train ticket to New York City; there he lived on the street. In the same year he was found by the artist and political activist Suzannah B. Troy; then she kept a diary about him on YouTube . This enabled her to get him a small room in Manhattan . In 2009 he appeared again in a club for the first time as part of the ESP-Disk Live concert series . In the same year he recorded an album with a quintet, which also included old ESP colleagues, which received good reviews. In 2011 he recorded another album with the band of the singer-songwriter Ed Pettersen , which could be subscribed to until April 2012.

Logan died of SARS-CoV-2 infection in April 2020 at the Lawrence Nursing Care Center in Far Rockaway, Queens during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City .

Albums

  • 1964: The Giuseppi Logan Quartet (ESP-Disk 1007) Logan, Don Pullen, Eddie Gomez, Milford Graves; recorded in November 1964
  • 1965: More (ESP disk 1013) Logan, Don Pullen, Reggie Johnson , Milford Graves; recorded in May 1965
  • 2009: The Giuseppi Logan Quintet (Tompkins Square Records) Logan, Matt Lavelle, Dave Burrell , François Grillot , Warren Smith ; recorded in September 2009
  • 2013: … And They Were Cool ( Jessica Lurie , Larry Roland , Ed Pettersen)

Lexical entry

Movies

  • The Devil's Horn - The dark side of the saxophone. (OT: The Devil's Horn - The History and the Curse of the Saxophone. ) Documentary, Canada, 2016, 81:08 min., Book: David Mortin, Michael Segell, David New, director: Larry Weinstein, production: arte , ZDF , German first broadcast: August 28, 2016 by arte, table of contents by ARD , u. a. with Jimmy Heath , Albert "Tootie" Heath , Yuri Yunakov, Giuseppi Logan, Colin Stetson , François Louis (saxophone reed maker ).
  • Successful American jazz musician Giuseppi Logan rediscovered. TV report, Germany, 2012, 3:19 min., Script and direction: Anja Bröker , production: ARD , editing: Tagesthemen , first broadcast: 23 May 2012, online video from ARD from 25:26 - 28:45 min .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nate Chinen: Giuseppi Logan, Free-Jazz Multireedist Who Returned Once From Oblivion, Has Died at 84th WBGO , April 18, 2020, accessed on April 18, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ A b Ben Young: Dixonia: a Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon , Greenwood, 1998, ISBN 0-313-30275-8 , p. 72, excerpts in Google books .
  3. ^ A Fireside Chat with Milford Graves. In: allaboutjazz.com , April 30, 2003, interview.
  4. ↑ a b According to the memories of the label boss Stollman, one of the recorded pieces sounded “totally spontaneous, like a great conversation. Suddenly I heard a noise like "thwuuunk" and I realized that the tape was at the end. The sound engineer and I were so moved by the music that we didn't pay any attention to it. Then I thought, 'Oh God, this remarkable piece is lost. It was interrupted in the middle and that was it. '”When they informed the group, Logan suggested that they just play it a second time from the moment the tape stopped. The sound engineer rewound the tape "played a few bars and then hit the record button, and they recorded the piece at exactly the right place, afterwards you couldn't tell where one piece ended and the other began." Bernard Stollman : The ESP disk story. In: allaboutjazz.com , November 21, 2005, interview.
  5. ↑ The catalog number was finally given to an album by the underground band The Fugs .
  6. ↑ a b Tobias Feld: The rise of someone believed dead. ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Financial Times Deutschland , May 23, 2012.
  7. ↑ Lost and Blessedly Found: Giuseppi Logan! In: Radio WFMU , Collection of Documents of Rediscovery.
  8. ↑ È morto il jazz ista Giuseppi Logan by coronavirus. Republica, April 18, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Logan, Giuseppi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Logan, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2020
Place of death Queens , New York City