Marc Edwards (drummer)
Marc Edwards (* 23. July 1949 in New York City ) is an American free jazz - drummer , composer and bandleader.
Edwards attended Manhattan Junior High School and played in the school band. Under the influence of the music of John Coltrane and Sun Ra , he began to be interested in free jazz . In 1968 he was heard on a recording of the drum formation Warriors Drum & Bugle Corps ; then he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston , where he met David S. Ware . He later worked on his album Birth of a Being ( HatHut Records 1977). In 1970/71 he formed the Apogee trio with Ware and the pianist Cooper-Moorewho performed frequently at the Boston Jazz Workshop . On his return to New York, he played in the Cecil Taylor Unit, with which he went on a European tour in 1976 ( Dark Unto Themselves ). In the 1980s he founded his own formation in which Matthew Shipp and Rob Brown played. A first album was Black Queen , in which Fred Hopkins was a guest. In addition, he worked on David S. Wares recordings for Silkheart Records from 1988 to 1991 .
In 1993 he recorded the album Tme & Space, Vol.1 (Alphaphoncs) with Rob Brown and performed with Charles Gayle at the Knitting Factory . In 1996, CIMP was followed by his album Red Sprite & Blue Jets , on which tenor saxophonist Sabir Mateen and bassist Hillard Greene participated; the themes of the album were reminiscent of the late recordings of John Coltrane around 1965/66, such as his One Down, One Up . He also worked with Paul Flaherty in the 2000s .
Discographic notes
- Marc Edwards: Black Queen (AIM, 1992)
- Marc Edwards: Time & Space Vol. 1 (Alphaphonics, 1993)
- Marc Edwards: Red Sprites & Blue Jets (CIMP, 1997)
- Paul Flaherty & Marc Edwards: Kaivalya, Vol. 1 ( Cadence Jazz Records , 2005)
- Marc Edwards & Mick Barr Duo: The Bowels of Jupiter (Gaffer, 2017)
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- Interview in All About Jazz
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Marc Edwards at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Edwards, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |