Kip Hanrahan

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Kip Hanrahan (born December 9, 1954 in the Bronx , New York City ) is an American music producer and percussionist.

Live and act

Hanrahan, who first came into contact with contemporary jazz as Carla Bley's assistant , plays an unusual role in most of the records he produces, which he himself compares to that of a film director. He gathers musicians and concepts that he conducts insofar as he intervenes in the musical happening (e.g. causes the percussionists to begin with a solo passage or the pianist to play the transition to another piece). He combines soloists from avant-garde jazz (such as Don Pullen , David Murray , Jamaaladeen Tacuma , Carmen Lundy or Steve Swallow ) with funk musicians from New Orleans such as Allen Toussaint , Leo Nocentelli ( The Meters ) or Charles Neville (Neville Brothers), with rock musicians like Sting or Jack Bruce and percussionists from the Latin Jazz scene such as Andy Gonzalez , Milton Cardona , Robby Ameen and Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez . In some cases he has worked with poets such as Ishmael Reed and Paul Haines (the writer of Escalator over the Hill ).

Hanrahan has also produced notable albums with the Tango Nuevo composer Astor Piazzolla and with musicians from Hanrahan's circle such as Arto Lindsay and Alfredo Triff , and presented them on his “American Clavé” label .

His album Desire Develops at Edge was on the list in 1998 "Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One What Listening) 100" by The Wire added.

Discography

The list includes recordings released under Hanrahan's own name as well as recordings released under the name Conjure.

Studio recordings

  • Coup de tête (recorded 1979–1981, released 1981)
  • Desire Develops an Edge (1983)
  • Vertical's Currency (1984)
  • A Few Short Notes for the End Run (recorded 1984–1985, EP released 1986)
  • Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted (recorded 1988–1989, released 1990)
  • Tenderness (recorded 1988–1990, released 1990)
  • Exotica (1993)
  • All Roads Are Made of the Flesh (recorded 1984-94, released 1995)
  • Beautiful Scars (recorded 2004–2007, released 2007)
  • At Home in Anger (recorded 2007–2011, released 2011)
  • Crescent Moon Waning - (recorded 2015, released 2017)

With conjure

  • Conjure: Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed (recorded 1983, released 1985)
  • Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon (1988)
  • Bad Mouth (2006)

trilogy

  • A Thousand Nights and a Night (1 - Red Nights) (recorded 1994–1996, released 1996)
  • A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 1) (1998)
  • A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 2) (recorded 1994–1998, released 1999)

Soundtracks

  • Original music from the soundtrack to Piñero (2002)

Compilations

  • Anthology (released 1993)
  • Drawn from Memory (Greatest Hits, Or Whatever ... Kip on Campus) (2000)

With Eddie Palmieri

  • Sueño (1989)

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personal data
SURNAME Hanrahan, Kip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer and percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City