Jane Wang

Jane Wang (born August 24, 1957 in Oxford ) is an English-American double bass player and composer.

Live and act

Wang studied with Cecil McBee , Dave Zox , Michael Willens , Joe Maneri and Bob Gullotti . She did not begin her musical career until she was over thirty, having previously worked in the film and computer industries.

As a composer she worked several times with the puppeteer and performance artist Hanne Tierney , for example she wrote the music for the play Salome , performed by their theater Without Actors , which won an Obie Award . She also composed for Renita Martin : u. a. the music for their solo program Five Bottles In a Six Pack and for the piece It Is The Seeing , which was performed at the Cherry Lane Theater in 2008 .

Wang was a member of the new music group Human Connection by composer Kenji Kikuchi , for which she also composed several pieces. She is still a member of the "cyber collective" of composers ~ chromatik_d_zabu.tmp . Your piece Numero Uno was in the collection 2007 / International mix of Robert Voiseys project 60x60 was added to the 60 composers each contributed 60 pieces.

Wang u. a. with Anika Tromholt Kristensen , Olivier Besson , Shakti Smith , Rick Roberts , Melanie Hedlund , Gene Broadway , Su Eaton and Olivier Besson. At the Museum Ludwig and the Mu Theater in Budapest, she realized projects with the dancer Liz Roncka and the percussionist Grant Smith .

As an instrumentalist, Wang has performed with groups such as the Hungarian The Balvanyos Ensemble , Mark Harveys Aardvark Jazz Orchestra , Butch Morris ' Phantom Station , Angelamia Bachemins Sextet, Keith Papa's Daddio's Big Band and Tony Owens Maasai and with musicians such as Carolyn Castellano , Chieko Hayashi , Sabir Mateen , Stan Strickland , Allan Chase , Andrew D'Angelo , Oscar Noriega , Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamara , Hakim Law , Taylor Ho Bynum , Jorrit Dijkstra , Dominique Eade , Tom Hall , Brian Carpenter , the Haitian singer-songwriter Gifrants , the Mexican singer and Dancer Veronica Robles and Julio Bare's salsa - merengue group .

Discography

• Gifrants: Serenade by Gifrants , 1996
• The Lydian People's Front: Laundry for the Nineties , 1996
• Ryo Hashizume : And Then You Heard Tales , 1997
• Ryo Hashizume: In A Stranger's Hand , 1998
• Takeshi Asai : Somewhere In The Universe , 1999
• Molly Flannery Quintet: Slow Dance At The Asylum , 1999
• Osamu Moriyama : Invisible , 2000
• James Falzone : The Already and The Not Yet , 2000
• Sabir Mateen: Secrets of When , 2001
• Gifrants: Twoubadou Sek , 2001
• Binary System: Invention Box , 2001
• Vattel Cherry 's bass peppers , 2001
• Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Bethlehem COUNTERPOINT , 2002
• Solaris: Legend of the Sea , 2003
• First Time Out - Waterfront Park String Band , 2004
• More Than A Dream - Soul Station Live in Baltimore , 2004
• The Sabir Mateen Quartet: Other Places Other Spaces , 2008

Web links

• Discography at Allmusic