Larry Fishkind

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Larry Fishkind (born February 11, 1945 ) is an American tuba player who has emerged mainly in jazz and new improvisation music.

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Fishkind, who is a nephew of Arnold Fishkin , grew up in Brooklyn . The band leader George Cables says that he was introduced to the beginnings of jazz by Fishkind. At the age of ten he began to learn the tuba; in the High School for the Performing Arts , Don Butterfield was his teacher. Then he graduated from the Juilliard School of Music .

Between 1967 and 1978 he worked as a freelancer in Canada and the USA in almost all musical styles. He has lived in Amsterdam since 1978. There he was active in various projects in the field of jazz and improvisation, e.g. B. in the ICP Orchestra of Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink , in a trio with Tobias Delius and Tristan Honsinger , in the Trio Cumulus with Ab Baars and Wolter Wierbos , in the groups of Jeff Reynolds , Paul Stocker , Ernst Glerum , Chris Abelen and Curtis Clark . He also recorded a composition by Nico Schuyt with the Orkest De Volharding , as well as with the American Symphony Orchestra , The Brooklyn Philharmonic , The Netherlands Theater Orchestra and The European Tuba Quartet . Since 1992 he has been a member of Burton Greene's Klezmokum Group , and also active in Klez-Edge and Klez-Thetics . He also forms the European Tuba Quartet with Melvyn Poore , Pinguin Moschner and Carl Ludwig Hübsch . He was to be seen at concerts and music theater performances all over Europe and Japan. Tom Lord lists him on 24 recordings in the field of jazz between 1973 and 2002.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Date of birth on Oxford Index, accessed on August 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Interview with George Cables
  3. ↑ Biography on Klezmokum.com, accessed on August 13, 2015
  4. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Fishkind, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tuba player
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1945