Jason Mears
Jason Mears (* around 1976 ) is an American jazz musician ( alto saxophone , clarinet , composition ).
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Mears, who grew up in Alaska , first studied music education at Boston University , then he completed a master's degree in African-American improvised music at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles with Wadada Leo Smith , Leroy Jenkins and Vinny Golia in 2002 .
Mears belonged to formations by Vinny Golia such as Music for Like Instruments and its Large Ensemble , but also to the Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet. Together with trumpeter Kris Tiner , bassist Ivan Johnson and drummer Paul Kikuchi, he founded the collaborative Empty Cage Quartet , which released several albums between 2004 and 2012 that received critical acclaim. With his Electric Quintet he released the album Book of Changes: Part I (2013); He currently leads an electro-acoustic quartet with Quentin Tolimieri, Ken Filiano and Andrew Drury ( Ammonite 2018). Together with Harris Eisenstadt , he founded the eleven-member Creative Orchestra of Los Angeles (KOLA), which enables participants to perform their experimental compositions in public. In 2005 he was a key member of Eisenstadt's ensemble The Soul and Gone . He was also a member of the Canada Day Octet , Anthony Braxton's Trillium E Orchestra and Wadada Leo Smith's Silver Orchestra .
Mears has interdisciplinary collaborated with filmmaker Allen Glass and dancer Miyuki Kobayashi and with Frank Gratkowski , Phillip Greenlief , Jack Wright , Leroy Jenkins, Mark Trayle, Michael Vlatkovich , Jeb Bishop , Jason Roebke , Jeff Parker , Steuart Liebig and Damon Smith occurred . His albums have been released on the Clean Feed Records , Nine Winds, 482 Music and pfMENTUM labels.
Web links
- Web presence
- Empty Cage Quartet
- Jason Mears at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mears, Jason |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (alto saxophone, clarinet, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1976 |