Greg Ward (musician)
Greg Ward (* 1982 in Chicago ) is an American musician ( alto saxophone , clarinet ) of creative jazz and composer .
Live and act
Ward grew up in a musical family and sang in gospel groups as a child . Under the influence of Charlie Parker's music , he began to play the saxophone. In 2000 he won the Down Beat magazine's High School Jazz Soloist Award . In 2001 he spent at Steans Music Institute in Ravinia . He initially returned to Chicago, where from 2002 he was responsible for the Wednesday evening program for Fred Anderson in his Velvet Lounge . He has worked with Ernest Dawkins ' Chicago 12 , Hamid Drake ( Bindu , 2005), Mike Reed , the Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble, and with the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International .
From 2005 he was a member of the Exploding Star Orchestra . He also worked on the recordings of Karl EH Seigfried's Portrait of Jack Johnson (2007). With Jason Adasiewicz , Mary Halvorson , Taylor Ho Bynum and Ingrid Laubrock , he was a member of the Sun Ra project Living by Lanterns , which recorded the album New Myth / Old Science on the basis of 700 hours of archive material . In 2010 Ward released his debut album South Side Story (Nineteen Eight), followed by Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut (Thirsty Ear), with Joe Sanders (bass) and Damion Reid (drums) and in 2016 Touch My Beloved's Thought (with Tim Haldeman , Keefe, among others) Jackson , Ben LaMar Gay and Jason Roebke ). Ward lives in New York City. He also wrote chamber music for various ensembles. In 2016 he performed a suite with musicians and dancers referring to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady . At the beginning of 2019 he released the album Stomping Off from Greenwood .
Discographic notes
- Jason Stein , Greg Ward, Eric Revis , Jim Black : Nature Work (2019)
- Greg Ward, Jason Stein, Matt Lux , Marcus Evans & Chad Taylor: 85bears (2020)
Web links
- Web presence
- Greg Ward at Allmusic (English)
- Greg Ward at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review of the album at All About Jazz
- ^ Saxophonist Greg Ward returns to Chicago on Mingus wings (2016) in Chicago Reader
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ward, Greg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |