Greg Murphy (jazz musician)

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Greg Murphy (born December 1, 1959 in St. John's , Newfoundland ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , also composition ).

Live and act

Greg Murphy began his music career in 1971 when he played in the school band at Ray-Fisk Grammar School in Chicago. He then received classical piano training from Lucia Santini at Roosevelt University . 1980-84 he played in the jazz / funk band Lightning Flash Thunder Roar as well as in the big bands of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northern Illinois University and other local Chicago bands. With a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts , Murphy studied in New Orleans with Ellis Marsalis from 1984 . There he also worked with The New Orleans Jazz Couriers, Percussion Incorporated (with which the first recordings were made in 1987) and his own formation The Fusicians . In New Orleans he also played with Donald Harrison and Wynton Marsalis . In 1987 he moved to New York City and began a long collaboration with Rashied Ali , which lasted until his death in 2009.

During his career Murphy also worked with his own formations; he also played in New York with Ornette Coleman , in France with Carlos Santana and Archie Shepp . In 2005 the album Orientation was created ; In 2012, he recorded the theme song for the HBO documentary Redemption , which received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short in 2013. He has also worked with Jeff "Tain" Watts , Billy Hart , Art Taylor , Joe Lovano , Grachan Moncur III , Christian McBride , Cindy Blackman , Flava Flav , Charles McPherson , Larry Ridley , William Parker and Charles Gayle . In the field of jazz he was involved in 12 recording sessions between 1994 and 2016.

Discographic notes

  • Let's Get Started (1994, ed. 2004)
  • Orientation (2005), with Lawrence Clark, Alex Hernandez, Noel Sagerman, Raphael Cruz
  • Summer Breeze (2018), with Josh Evans , Eric Wheeler , Kush Abadey

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Greg Murphy. Smalls, December 28, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 28, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Greg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH St. John's , Newfoundland