Jordan McLean
Jordan McLean (born April 24, 1974 in New Rochelle ) is an American jazz and soul musician (composer, trumpeter, band leader) and music teacher.
Live and act
McLean completed his composition studies at the State University of New York , Purchase, summa cum laude , where he is a part-time professor of musicology. He is a trumpeter in the Antibalas studio music group and has worked with musicians such as TV on the Radio , Medeski, Martin & Wood , The Roots , Public Enemy , Paul Simon and Angélique Kidjo (on their Grammy- winning album Djin Djin ). Together with the choreographer Bill T. Jones , he realized the Broadway production FELA! As composer and arranger . . He also conducted the Orchestra of Our Time as a guest .
As a band leader, he recorded two albums with the group Fire of Space (with clarinetists, flautists and saxophonists Stuart Bogie and Colin Stetson , trombonist Aaron Johnson , keyboardist Shoko Nagai and percussionist Geoff Mann ): Age of Epoch and Handbasket . The oboist and bassoonist Michael Herbst , the saxophonist Martin Pema and the double bassist Thomas Abbs also worked on the latter . In addition to traditional Indian and Turkish music, the group's repertoire includes original compositions by McLean.
With the Piano Music and Song Trio , to which the pianist Derin Oge and the cellist Anneke Schaul-Yoder belong, McLean plays compositions by Charles Ives , Samuel Barber and Federico Mompou , early music as well as Siberian and Turkish folk music in addition to his own works . So far he has recorded an album with the trio. With the drummer Amir Ziv McLean forms the experimental duo droid , who u. a. performed with keyboardist Adam Holzman . With Ziv he produced the album New Vocabulary , released in 2014 , which contains material from sessions with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and whose publication, which Coleman had not approved, became the subject of a legal dispute in 2015.
Web links
- Homepage of Jordan McLean
- Vox Novus - Jordan McLean
- Allmusic - Jordan McLean - discography
- Jordan McLean at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ornette Coleman Sue's Jordan McLean Of Antibalas
- ^ Ornette Coleman Lawsuit Against Antibalas' Jordan McLean: Both Sides Weigh In on Billboard
- ↑ Coleman Vs. McLean in JazzThing
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McLean, Jordan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American trumpeter, band leader, composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Rochelle |