Ira Coleman

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Ira Coleman (born April 29, 1956 in Stockholm ) is an American jazz bassist .

biography

Ira Coleman was born in Stockholm to an African American and a Swede. He spent his youth in France and then in Wolfsburg , where his mother Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe lived from 1968 to 1978 and where Coleman graduated from high school in 1975. He studied first at the Cologne University of Music , then, encouraged by bassist Jimmy Woode , at the Berklee School of Music in Boston in the early 1980s .

Musical career

After completing his studies, he stayed in the USA and played a. a. with Betty Carter (also on tour in Germany, and on her album Look What I Got from 1988), Freddie Hubbard , Mercer Ellington and Branford Marsalis . Long collaborations with Mulgrew Miller (in the trio) and Tony Williams (with whom he played for seven years) followed, as well as sideman with Wayne Shorter , Herbie Hancock (including "Gershwin's World" 1998), John Esposito , Joe Henderson , Kenny Garrett , Bert Joris , Archie Shepp and Monty Alexander .

From 2002 he regularly accompanied Dee Dee Bridgewater and acted as the musical director of their band. He also played concerts or on record albums (with compositions by Ellington or Gershwin) with the opera singers Barbara Hendricks (2005) and Jessye Norman .

In 2009, Ira Coleman joined Sting's band to record the album If On A Winter's Night ... and went on tour with the newly formed band.

From June 2010, Ira Coleman went on a symphonicity world tour with Sting and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra under the direction of Steven Mercurio to present Sting and The Police hits in a new form. The studio album Symphonicities was released on July 6, 2010 on the Deutsche Grammophon and Cherry Tree label to accompany this world tour .

Niels Lan Doky (piano) and Ira Coleman (bass)

From spring 2012 he toured with Helge Schneider's band , who once also belonged to his mentor Jimmy Woode .

In September 2013 the new Sting album The Last Ship was released , in which Ira Coleman participated and is again on a world tour with Sting.

In December 2014 he played with Edda Magnason (vocals, piano) in the Niels Lan Doky Trio .

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SURNAME Coleman, Ira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm