Joe Brazil
Joseph "Joe" Brazil (born August 25, 1927 , † August 6, 2008 ) was an American jazz musician ( saxophone , flute ) and music teacher.
Live and act
After completing his military service at the end of the 1950s, Joe Brazil worked full-time at the Detroit Ford factory and played part-time as a jazz musician with Sonny Red , Hank Mobley , Hugh Lawson , Roy Brooks and with Joe Henderson , whose first recordings were made in 1958 in Brazils residence. The basement of Brazils Ranch in Conant Garden on the northern outskirts was a popular meeting place for young jazz musicians for rehearsals and jam sessions ; John Coltrane is said to have met his future wife Alice for the first time here . Brazil moved to Seattle in the early 1960s to work as a toolmaker at Boeing . In 1961 he performed there with the flugelhornist Ed Kelley. In September 1965 he played with John Coltrane at his concerts in town. As a flautist and percussionist, he worked on October 1, 1965 with Coltrane's studio album Om .
In 1969 he founded the Black Academy of Music in a former Seattle fire station , which taught music to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. One of Brazil's students at the Black Academy of Music was Gary Hammon; he had previously taught Rufus Reid . He began teaching jazz history at the University of Washington in 1968 , although he was a self-taught musician and had no academic background.
Brazil, who was previously a technical employee in the university's physics department, was hired as an assistant professor under pressure from students. However, he was rejected by a faculty committee in 1974; the public was not allowed to attend the meeting. 250 students went on strike for his return, but this was unsuccessful.
In 1970 he participated in Jemeel Moondoc's album The Teachers ; In 1975 he played with Roy Ayers ( Mystic Voyage ). Brazil made an appearance in the television movie The Secret Life of John Chapman (1976, directed by David Lowell Rich).
Brazil is buried in Tahoma National Cemetery .
Web links
- Joe Brazil project
- Joe Brazil at Discogs (English)
- Joe Brazil in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grab ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Metro Times ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Joe Henderson discography
- ↑ Franya J. Berkman: Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane , p 35
- ↑ Joe Brazil had initially bought the house (17846 Fleming Street) with his brother for his mother. After she died in 1951, he set up a bar in the basement and put up a grand piano.
- ↑ seattle history ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Coltrane's sextet performed in the jazz club The Penthouse ; Keith Raether Out of this World: John Coltrane in Seattle Earshot Jazz, April 1995, Vol. 11, No. 4 ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cf. Guerino B. Mazzola, Guerino Mazzola, Paul B. Cherlin: Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz: Towards a Theory of Collaboration , pp. 25f., Ralf Dombrowski John Coltrane: his life, his music, his records Oreos 2002, p. 208 and Lewis Porter : John Coltrane: his life and music. The University of Michigan Press, 1998 ISBN 0-472-10161-7 (American original edition), pp. 265f.
- ^ Paul De Barros, Eduardo Calderón Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle Sasquatch Books 1993, p. 203
- ^ Black University of Washington students campaign for inclusion, United States, 1968 and The Early History of the UW Black Student Union
- ↑ Seattle Community Rallies In Support Of Black Music Professor ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as well as A Week In Uw History ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Tri City Herald April 22, 1976
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brazil, Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brazil, Joseph (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 2008 |