Glen Hall

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Glen Scott Hall (born August 7, 1950 in Winnipeg ) is a Canadian musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , bass clarinet , composition ) of modern creative jazz . He is also Professor of Communication at Humber College .

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Hall was interested in music as a child, but did not begin to learn guitar and harmonica until he was thirteen . He first turned to blues and rock music before he also became interested in jazz , Indian classical music , flamenco , John Cage and Frank Zappa . He studied English literature and taught himself the saxophone and bass clarinet from 1967 onwards. After completing his literature studies in 1973, he went to Berklee College of Music , where he studied for four semesters. In 1975 he returned to Winnipeg, where he founded the experimental jazz ensemble The Whole Life Communication Orchestra and became a member of Mark Rutherford's Jazz Composers Workshop . He also played in the jazz rock band Zdenka and, after a stay at the Darmstadt Summer Course in 1976, studied the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen . In 1979 he recorded his first album, The Book of the Heart , and then went on an international tour for six months before moving to Toronto . There he taught at Humber College , but also worked with Ed Bickert , Rob Pitch, Don Thompson , Dave Young , Claude Ranger and Terry Clarke . For the arrangements of his second album The Mother of the Book (1985) he was able to win Gil Evans . Then he founded the Strange Attractors and in 1998 the quintet OutSource , later redShift and Powerbuch . He performed with the percussion group Nexus and Trichy Sankaran as well as with Ray Anderson , Gerry Hemingway , Dominic Duval , Sabir Mateen and the Sonic Youth guitarists Lee Ranaldo and William Hooker .

Discographic notes

  • The Book of the Heart (1979, with Joanne Brackeen , Joshua Breakstone , Cecil McBee , Billy Hart )
  • Glen Hall / Gil Evans The Mother of the Book (InRespect, 1994, with Chase Sanborn, Lawrence Chemey, Eugene Amaro, Harvey Saltzman, Bob Murphy, Stacy Hersch, Trevos Tureski, David Piltch, Terry Clarke , Bob Becker, John Wyre, Robin Engelman, Russ Hartenberger, Trichy Sankaran, rec. 1985)
  • Hallucinations (Leo 1997, with Roswell Rudd, Nilan Perara, Allan Molnar, John Gzowski, Kim Ratcliff, Rob Clutton , Don Thompson , John Lennard, Barry Elmes, Georgie McDonald, Judith Merrill)
  • The Roswell Incident (Leo 2000, with Roswell Rudd , Michael Occhipinti, Barry Romberg , Michael Morse and Allan Molnar)
  • Sonora (with Kye Marshall, Michael Morse, Rebecca van der Post, 2002)
  • Glen Hall, Bernie Koenig, MJ Idzerda Three Way Conversations (Slam, 2018)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Liner Notes for The Mother of the Book
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Glen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Glen Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg