Kash Killion
Kash Killion (* in Alton (Illinois) ) is an American bassist and cellist of avant-garde jazz and new improvisational music .
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Kash Killion is from Alton, Illinois , the same city where Miles Davis was born. He moved to the US West Coast in 1976 , where he worked with pianist Horace Tapscott , who became his mentor. During this time he stepped a. a. with Julius Hemphill , Billy Higgins , James Newton , Billy Bang , Bobby Hutcherson , Reggie Workman , Pharoah Sanders . The cello became his main instrument in the mid-1980s when he turned more to new improvisational music and collaborated with drummer Paul Murphy , saxophonist Glenn Spearman and violinist India Cooke . Eventually he returned to the bass as the main instrument and played with Sun Ra , on whose Black Saint album Major Temples from 1990 Killion can be heard as a cellist; He has also worked with Butch Morris , George Lewis , Rent Romus and John Zorn and has worked on projects with dance groups and poets such as Amiri Baraka , Quincy Troupe , Alice Walker and Jessica Hagedorn .
In the early 2000s he worked again with Paul Murphy in a trio with Marco Eneidi ( Shadow Intersections West ), with the pianist Joel Futterman , ( Lifeline , 2001 and Live At Noe Valley , 2002) and with Ike Levin . In 2001 he worked on Larry Willis ' album Sunshower . In January 2005 he played cello and bass in a duo with the alto saxophonist Anthony Ortega ( Afternoon in Paris ). Killion lives in the San Francisco Bay Area ; He is currently working there with his trio Killion's Trillions with violinist Sandy Poindexter and percussionist Kenneth Nash . Together with Kenneth Nash, he has been a member of the band The Pyramids around the multi-instrumentalist Idris Ackamoor since 2010 .
Discographic notes
- Kash Killion / Greg Jones: Sting You with my Christmas Bee (2006)
- Lost Legacy of the Cello - Kash Killion and Killion's Trillions (2006)
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- Art Lange, Liner Notes: Anthony Ortega: Afternoon in Paris ( HatHut Records )
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 9th edition. Penguin, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0 .
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| SURNAME | Killion, Kash |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz bassist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alton (Illinois) |