Jackson Krall

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Jackson Krall (born October 12, 1949 in Detroit ) is an American drummer and musical instrument maker . He has particularly emerged in the field of modern creative and improvised music .

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Jackson studied jazz drums with Alan Dawson in Boston and was heavily influenced by Milford Graves and Bill Dixon at Bennington College in the early 1970s . He moved to New York, where he gained a foothold in the downtown avant jazz scene and manufactured hand drums, maracas and, from 1978, agogô bells, which he initially sold through local musical instrument dealers and ultimately worldwide.

In 1984 Jackson was a founding member of the first New York samba school, the Escola de Samba Empire Loisaida, under the direction of Toni and Celia Nogueira . In the following years he played and paraded with the Empire Loisada ; He also founded his own band The Secret Music Society , with which it was recorded in 1984, and performed with the choreographers Elaine Shipman and Kay Nishikawa. He then belonged to the Associated Big Band, which appeared in the Knitting Factory in 1991 , and to various formations of Marco Eneidi , such as his American Jungle Orchestra , Rob Brown , William Parker and Alan Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra .

In the late 1990s, Jackson appeared frequently in the Cecil Taylor trio (with Dominic Duval ), which resulted in albums such as All the Notes and (with a larger cast) Almeda . Since 2009 he has been part of the Bern Nix trio . He can also be heard on Bill Dixon's album 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (2008), in recordings by Steve Swell's Nation of We and with the Ras Moshe Ensemble.

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  1. ↑ Loisaida Escola de Samba (New York Times)
  2. ↑ a b Associated Big Band (Inconstant Sol)
  3. ↑ Ben Rattlif: Frantic Poetry on Piano. In: New York Times. August 8, 1997, accessed September 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ All the Notes at Allmusic (English)
  5. ↑ Almeda at Allmusic (English)
  6. ↑ 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur at Allmusic (English)
personal data
SURNAME Krall, Jackson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drummer and instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit