Marco Eneidi
Marco Eneidi (* 1. November 1956 in Portland , Oregon ; † 24. May 2016 in Pleasanton , California ) was an American alto saxophonist of free jazz and new improvised music .
life and work
Eneidi grew up in San Francisco's Bay Area and began playing the clarinet at the age of nine; later he learned guitar and bass. As a teenager he played Dixieland Jazz in a local pizzeria. He then switched to the saxophone, decided to become a professional musician and moved to New York City in 1981 , where he met the avant-garde saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc and his then band members Dennis Charles , Roy Campbell and William Parker . He then worked with Cecil Taylor , Dewey Redman and Bill Dixon . In 1987 Eneidi founded his own record label Botticelli , on which mainly his own albums appeared, on which he played with William Parker, Lisle Ellis , Wilber Morris , Jackson Krall , Glenn Spearman and Wadada Leo Smith as well as the bassoon player Karen Borca . Eneidi also worked on recordings by Bill Dixon (1985), William Parker (1997), Glenn Spearman (1995) and also worked with Paul Lovens , Georg Graewe , Ken Vandermark , Damon Smith , Butch Morris , Peter Brötzmann , Han Bennink , Andrew Cyrille , Bertram Turetzky and Sabu Toyozumi . In 1995 he returned to California and founded the Creative Music Orchestra with Glenn Spearman , and finally the American Jungle Orchestra . In 2002 he performed live with Peter Brötzmann ( Live at Spruce Street Forum ). Since November 2004 he lived in Vienna for almost ten years, where he a. a. founded the New York / Vienna Institute of Improvised Music in September 2005 , which has jammed every Monday at Club Celeste since then and continues to work in the same place in the form of the Monday Improvisers Session . Eneidi has spent the last few years mainly in Mexico and the USA, but toured with various projects in Europe as well.
Discographic notes
- Vermont Spring (Botticelli, 1987)
- Final Disconnect Notice (Botticelli, 1994) with Karen Borca, William Parker, Wilber Morris, Jackson Krall
- Cherry Box (Eremite, 1998) with William Parker, Donald Robinson
- American Roadwork (CIMP, 2004) with Lisle Ellis , Father Valsamis
- Marco Eneidi / Peter Kowald / Damon Smith / Spirit: Ghetto Calypso (NotTwo, 2018)
swell
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eneidi, Marco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American alto saxophonist of free jazz and new improvisation music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portland , Oregon , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 2016 |
| Place of death | Pleasanton , California , United States |