Jim Black
Jim Black (born August 3, 1967 in Daily City , California ) is an American jazz drummer and composer.
Live and act
Black grew up in Seattle / Washington . In 1985 he went to Boston to the Berklee College of Music to attend. During this time he recorded his first albums with the group Human Feel , which included Chris Speed , Kurt Rosenwinkel and Andrew D'Angelo , and toured Europe. Then he first settled in Seattle, where he worked with Wayne Horvitz .
In 1991 he moved to Brooklyn where he became a member of Tim Berne 's Bloodcount , Dave Douglas ' Tiny Bell Trio, and the Ellery Eskelin Trio . He also worked with Paul Motian , Charlie Haden , Uri Caine , Christopher Dell , Carla Bley , Nels Cline , Peter Epstein and Matt Darriaus Paradox Trio . With Chris Speed, Skúli Sverrisson and Brad Shepik he first founded Pachora and then with Speed, Sverrisson and Hilmar Jensson his own band AlasNoAxis , with which he recorded several albums each. He is also a member of the Trio Azul with Carlos Bica and Frank Möbus . In addition to the recordings with his own band, he can be heard on over a hundred albums as a sideman. He also toured with Laurie Anderson and dealt intensively with electronic music .
Jim Black is not to be confused with the drummer Jimmy Carl Black .
Quote
"Playing with percussive surfaces and equipped with an airy, complex sense of rhythm and a pronounced spirit of experimentation, he can set personal accents in every context from new music to free jazz to techno ."
Discographic notes
- Pachora , Pachora
- Speak to It , Human Feel
- Carlos Bica & Azul Azul (1996)
- Welcome to Malpesta , Human Feel
- Carlos Bica & Azul Twist (1999)
- Alas No Axis , Alas NoAxis (2000)
- Splay , AlasNoAxis (2002)
- Astereotypical , Pachora (2003)
- Carlos Bica & Azul Look What They've Done To My Song, (2003)
- Habyor , AlasNoAxis (2004)
- Dogs of Great Indifference , AlasNoAxis (2006)
- Carlos Bica & Azul Believer (2011)
- Endangerous Blood (Skirl, 2010)
- Somatic ( Winter & Winter , 2011 with Elias Stemeseder & Thomas Morgan )
- Actuality ( Winter & Winter , 2014, with Elias Stemeseder & Thomas Morgan)
- Stefano Bollani : Sheik Yer Zappa (Decca / Universal, 2014)
- The Constant (Intakt, 2016) with Thomas Morgan & Elias Stemeseder
- More Than This, Carlos Bica & Azul (2017)
- Malamute (Intact, 2017)
- Jason Stein , Greg Ward , Eric Revis , Jim Black: Nature Work (2019)
- Mark Dresser : Ain't Nothing But a Cyber Coup & You (2019)
- Reckon (Intakt Records, 2020, with Elias Stemeseder & Thomas Morgan; best list price of the German record review )
Lexigraphic entry
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
Web links
- Jim Black's website
- Jim Black at Allmusic (English)
- Jim Black at Discogs (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Black, Jim |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd August 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Daily City |