Larry Roland

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Larry Roland (* around 1950 in Boston ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass , language ) and poet .

Live and act

Roland graduated from Boston University with a degree in Education in 1973; In 1997 he received his Masters from the University of Massachusetts . First as a poet and conga player, from 1976 also as a bassist, he began to perform in Boston cafés. With the World's Experience Orchestra he was involved in the 1975 album The Beginning of a New Birth . 1984-88 he was a member of the house band of Wally’s Club . From the end of the 1980s he played in the trio of Charles Gayle ( Homeless , Silkheart 1987) and with Raphe Malik , with whose group he a. a. 1991 appeared at the Free Music workshop of the Academy of Arts in Berlin ( 21st Century Texts , FMP ). During that decade he also worked with Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble and the Gunter Hampel Sextet. In 1997 he performed with his own ensemble (recordings on the compilation Autumn Uprising / A Three Day Festival of Boston New Improvised Music ). In 2001 he presented the jazz and lyric production As Time Flows On , on which he accompanied himself on the double bass.

From the 2000s, Roland u. a. with the choreographer Adrienne Hawkins and with the musicians Nick Goumas ( Perseverance , 2003), William Hooker ( Red , 2012), Yoron Israel ( Visions - The Music of Stevie Wonder , 2012) and in 2014 in a trio with Avram Fefer and Federico Ughi . With his jazz and lyric project Outside Within , he performed with Daniel Carter , Maria Grand and Akili Haynes at The Stone club in New York in 2012 . In the field of jazz he was involved in ten recording sessions between 1991 and 2012, including albums by Giuseppi Logan . Roland lives and works primarily in Massachusetts.

Discographic notes

  • As Time Flows On (Boston Composers Group, 2001, solo)
  • Peter Kuhn / Dave Sewelson / Gerald Cleaver / Larry Roland: Our Earth / Our World (pfMENTUM, 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Short biography
  2. Report and video at Jazz Right Now
  3. Event announcement at Jazz near you
  4. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 10, 2016)