Joseph Bowie

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Joseph Bowie, Moers Festival 2012
Joseph Bowie in 1980

Joseph "Joe" Bowie (born October 17, 1953 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is a jazz and funk musician (trombonist, percussionist and singer).

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Bowie grew up in a musical family; his father William Lester Bowie was a music teacher; the two older brothers, Byron Bowie (saxophone) and Lester Bowie (trumpet) were musicians. He grew up in an environment that was initially characterized by rhythm and blues . At the age of seventeen he became a member of the Black Artists Group that was founded in 1967 in St. Louis . His first long international stay followed in 1971 in France with other musicians from this group, after the city of St. Louis stopped all support: he worked in Paris with Oliver Lake , Baikida Carroll , Charles Bobo Shaw , Floyd LeFlore and Julius Hemphill . During his time there he played with Alan Silva , Frank Wright , Bobby Few and in 1973 at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Dr. John . Between 1972 and 1978 he played repeatedly with Shaw's Human Arts Ensemble , with which he also made several records. Between 1973 and 1976, Bowie continued to star in New York City with Cecil Taylor , Frank Lowe , Leroy Jenkins , Sam Rivers , Ornette Coleman and many more, making him an integral part of the New York downtown scene . In 1976 he briefly moved to Chicago , where he was the band leader for Tyrone Davis and other greats in R&B. From 1978 he played for two years with Shaw and Luther Thomas in the St. Louis Creative Music Ensemble . He also worked with James Chance (or James White and the Blacks ) and was involved in his album White Cannibal . 1980 Bowie presented his band Defunkt , which goes back to the Blacks , and with which he was successful in the following years with international tours and recordings such as Thermonuclear Sweat (1982). In 1984 he retired from the music business for two years and then returned with Defunkt .

Bowie also played regularly in the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble from 1986 to 2005 . He was also involved in recordings of Don Pullen and performed with the Liberation Music Orchestra , with Hans Dulfer , with Luc Houtkamp's POW Ensemble , with Count Basic , the Vienna Art Orchestra and the David Murray Big Band . He can still be heard in a trio with Adam Rudolph and Omar Sosa and with Sigi Finkel's African Heart as well as with his new group Kosen-Rufu .

Bowie continued to be a visiting professor at many universities. He has lived in Holland since 2003.

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SURNAME Bowie, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowie, Joe (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri