Greg Kelley

Greg Kelley (* 1973 in North Attleborough , Bristol County, Massachusetts ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( trumpet , electronics, also percussion , vocals ) who, like Nate Wooley and Peter Evans, “ pushes the musical-technical-physical boundaries radically expanded his instrument ”.

Live and act

Kelley learned the trumpet when she was ten. He first studied in Baltimore at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University before returning to Boston. He was a member of the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra in the late 1990s and founded the nmperign formation with Bhob Rainey ; he also worked with John Voigt , Paul Flaherty and Masashi Harada during this time . In 2000 he released the solo albums Trumpet and Empty Gestures . In the following years he worked in various duo, trio and band projects a. a. with Olivia Block , Anthony Braxton (Six Compositions (GTM) 2001) , James Coleman, Laurence Cook , Axel Dörner , Jason Lescalleet, Pauline Oliveros , Joe McPhee , John Shiurba , Weasel Walter and C. Spencer Yeh . In the field of jazz and improvised music he was involved in 29 recording sessions between 1996 and 2008. In Germany he appeared in Mazen Kerbaj's ARIHA Trumpet Ensemble in the NOWJazz session of the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 2014 .

Discographic notes

• Greg Kelley / Tatsuya Nakatani / Curt Newton : Field Recordings, Volume One: The Birthday (Boxholder, 1999)
• Aardvark Jazz Orchestra : The Seeker (Leo, 2000)
• Greg Kelley / Jason Lescalleet: Forlorn Green (2001)
• Bhob Rainey / Greg Kelley: More Gloom More Light (2002)
• Cold Bleak Heat: It's Magnificent But It Isn't War (2003), with Paul Flaherty, Matt Heyner, Chris Corsano
• Nmperign & Jason Lescalleet: Love Me Two Times (Intransitive, 2006)
• Self-Hate Index (2008) solo

Web links

• Portrait at Open Sound
• Greg Kelley at Allmusic (English)
• Greg Kelley at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.stadtgarten.de/?m=event&id=8142
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/nmperign-the-stylus-interview-series.htm
5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 4, 2014)
6. ↑ http://www.swr.de/swr2/festivals/donaueschingen/englische-version/donaueschinger-musiktage-2014-programm-06/-/id=3503406/nid=3503406/did=13615156/1tnho5y/index.html