Guillermo Gregorio
Guillermo Gregorio (born May 1, 1941 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine clarinetist , alto saxophonist and composer of jazz and new improvisation music .
Life
Guillermo Gregorio was born in Buenos Aires in the 1940s and comes from a musical family. First jazz influences were Pee Wee Russell and Jimmy Noone ; However, from an early age he was interested in the music of Lennie Tristano , Ornette Coleman and the early Musique concrète .
At the beginning of the 1960s he began his first experiments, which then resulted in the project "Unheard Music" (later published on the album Otra Música: Tape Music, Fluxus, and the Improvisation in Buenos Aires 1963-1970). Gregorio worked alongside his musical work as a professor of architecture and as an author on classical and modern music avant-garde forms.
Gregorio also took part in the Fluxus activities of the Argentine performance groups Movimiento Música Mús and other experimental groups in Buenos Aires and La Plata. In the mid-1980s Gregorio left Buenos Aires and first moved to Europe, where he lived in Vienna and worked with Franz Koglmann ; eventually he went to Chicago , USA , where he still lives and works today. In 2001 he founded the Madi Ensemble , with which he further developed the various Argentine avant-garde styles.
He teaches at Purdue University and was commissioned to write an orchestral work with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as part of his doctorate . His music combines elements of improvisation in a structural framework derived from the architecture and the graphic elements of the planimetric projections. Since 1995 Gregorio has recorded several albums for the Swiss HatHut Records , with a. a. Carrie Biolo , Michael Cameron , Mat Maneri , Jim O'Rourke , Mats Gustafsson and Kjell Nordeson . In 2001 Gregorio worked with a string quartet and the trombonist Sebi Tramontana ; He also played in a trio with Pandelis Karayorgis and Nate McBride ( Chicago Approach ). His “Rodchenko Suite” was performed by Lou Mallozzi .
The critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton compare Gregorio's conceptual approach to classical jazz with that of Franz Koglmann, as in his interpretations of Red Norvo's recordings from the 1940s on Ellipsis 1997 or the processing of Fletcher Henderson's pieces such as Red Dust , Ghost of a Chance or These Foolish Things on the 1998 album Red Cube (d) . The most remarkable piece for the authors is “Woodchopper's Nightmare” with motivic references to the work of Red Norvo, Shorty Rogers , Woody Herman , Flip Phillips and others. The critic Bill Shoemaker described Guillermo Gregorio's music "as a unique chain between post-serial composition and chamber music jazz influenced by cool jazz".
Discography
- Otra Musica - Tape Music, Fluxus, and the Improvisation in Buenos Aires 1963–1970 ( Atavistic , 1963–70)
- Approximately (HatArt, 1996)
- Ellipsis (HatOLOGY, 1997)
- Red Cube (d) (HatOLOGY, 1998)
- Background Music (HatOLOGY, 1998) with Mats Gustafsson and Kjell Nordeson
- Degrees of Ironicity (HatNOW, 1999)
- Guillermo Gregorio / Pandelis Karayorgis / Nate McBride : Chicago Approach
- Guillermo Gregorio / Rafał Mazur / Ramon Lopez: Wandering The Sound (Fundacja Sluchaj, 2018)
- Guillermo Gregorio / Brandon Lopez: 12 Episodes (Relative Pitch, 2018)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography at culturebease.net ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2009 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.
- ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2009 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. at culturebease.net
- ↑ Biography at culturebease.net ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2009 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.
- ↑ Chris Kelsey in the Al Music Guide
- ↑ Chris Kelsey in the Al Music Guide
- ^ Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD , p. 617.
- ↑ Bill Shoemaker in Jazztimes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gregorio, Guillermo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine jazz musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |