Kali Fasteau

Kali Z. Fasteau (also Zusaan Kali Fasteau , born March 9, 1947 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American jazz musician (saxophone, flutes, percussion, synthesizer, piano) and musicologist.

Life

Fasteau grew up first in Paris and then in the New York area. She comes from a musical family and initially took piano lessons from Olga Heifetz, Jascha Heifetz's sister-in-law . She also played the cello . At Reed College (1964 to 1968) she learned a lot in exchange with her fellow student Larry Karush . She then studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University , but also jazz improvisation with Ken McIntyre and Clifford Thornton . In 1976 she went to Turkey to learn to play the Ney flute with Akagunduz Kutbay . Between 1980 and 1983 she learned Indian singing in Benares and Mumbai .

From 1971 to 1977 she was married to the bassist and bass clarinetist Donald Garrett , best known for his playing with John Coltrane , with whom she also played and recorded. Her current husband is the blues musician and sound engineer James C. Jamison.

She played with Archie Shepp and Noah Howard in the 1970s and was also involved in their recordings. She later worked with Beaver Harris , Rashied Ali , William Parker , Joe McPhee , Oliver Lake , Joseph Jarman , Marilyn Mazur , Hamid Drake , Andrew Cyrille , Bobby Few , Henry Grimes , Johnny Dyani , Christian McBride , Sirone and Sabir Mateen .

With her ensemble she has appeared in New York Town Hall , Lincoln Center and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris , the Museum Theater in Chennai , the Boston Center for the Arts and at numerous festivals .

Fasteau starred in the documentary Down to the Crux by Michael Lucio-Sternbach . In her Indian years she was also involved in the production of film scores.

Web links

• Web presence with discography
• Kali Fasteau at Allmusic (English)