Jacob Garchik

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Jacob Garchik (born October 12, 1976 in San Francisco ) is an American jazz trombonist (also accordion , bass trombone , tuba , piano ), composer and arranger who is also active in the field of world music .

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Garchik, whose grandfather emigrated from Lithuania in 1910, had music lessons in public schools in San Francisco from the age of ten; he also studied classical trombone with Doug Thorley. In 1994 he continued his studies at the New York Manhattan School of Music ; he had brief lessons from Steve Turre and continued classical training with David Finlayson and David Taylor . Since then Garchik has worked in the downtown and Brooklyn jazz scene, a. a. as a trombonist in band projects by Lee Konitz , Ohad Talmor / Steve Swallow , as well as in The Four Bags , Slavic Soul Party, in the Mingus Big Band and in the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, with Mary Halvorson , Dan Weiss , Miguel Zenón and Steve Lehman . He was also active in the world music scene, where he played with Golem , the Klezmer All Stars by Frank London and the Simcha All Stars by Greg Wall . He also led his own trio. In 2015 he released his fusional album Ye Olde with an unusually cast quintet (trombone, three guitars, drums). Since 2006 he has also written a number of arrangements and transcriptions for the Kronos Quartet , included on the Kronos albums Floodplain (2009) and Rainbow (2010). In the field of jazz, he was involved in 37 recording sessions between 1997 and 2018, according to Tom Lord .

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  1. ^ A Prog-Jazz Suite About Architecture? Jacob Garchik Does It All. NPR , December 13, 2015, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 16, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Garchik, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American multi-instrumentalist of jazz and world music
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco