Mario Pavone

Mario Pavone (born November 11, 1940 in Waterbury / Connecticut ) is an American creative jazz bassist .

Live and act

The trained engineer Pavone had no formal musical training in his youth. He first came into contact with jazz in 1958 during his studies at the University of Connecticut , and since 1962 he has played the double bass himself . He took lessons from Bertram Turetzky and began his career as a professional musician in 1965.

In 1968 he went on a European tour with Paul Bley , with whom he worked until 1972. With him and Barry Altschul he played the album Canada in 1968 . In the early 1970s he performed with vibraphonist Bobby Naughton and was a member of Bill Dixon's Orchestra of the Streets and John Fischer's Interface . In 1975 he founded the Creative Music Improvisers Forum (CMIF) in New Heaven with Bobby Naughton, Wadada Leo Smith , Gerry Hemingway , Wes Brown , Dwight Andrews and others . In 1979, Digit was released , his first album as a band leader.

In 1980 he began working with Thomas Chapin for eighteen years . His main formation with Chapin was a trio with the drummer Michael Sarin . He also worked as a coleader with Anthony Braxton , Wadada Leo Smith, Marty Ehrlich and Michael Musillami . Around 1990 he began to "implement highly complex projects of his own, which mainly showed him to be the creator of sensitive compositions, reminiscent of the third stream in their seriousness , between modern jazz and new music ."

After Chapin's death in 1998 he performed exclusively with his own formations. Only in 2001 did he take part in the recording of his son Michael Pavone's debut album , Trio . He is also involved in the organization of the Litchfield Jazz Festival and the Litchfield Summer Jazz Camp .

Discography

Digit , 1979 Shodo , 1981 Bill Dixon: November 1981 , 1981 Bill Dixon: Thoughts , 1985 Bill Dixon: Son of Sisyphus , 1988 Sharpeville , 1988 Thomas Chapin: Third Force , 1990 Thomas Chapin: Insomnia , 1991 Thomas Chapin: Anima , 1992 Toulon Days , 1992 Nine Duets with Anthony Braxton, 1993 Seven Standards with Anthony Braxton, 1994 Thomas Chapin: Menagerie Dreams , 1994 Song for (Septet) , 1995 Thomas Chapin: Haywire , 1996 Dancer's Tales , 1997

Thomas Chapin: Sky Piece , 1998 Thomas Chapin: Nightbird Song , 1999 Thomas Chapin: Alive , 1999 Remembering Thomas , 1999 Op-Ed with Michael Musillami, 2000 Motion poetry with Michael Musillami, 2001 Totem Blues , 2001 Myth , 2002 Pivot with Michael Musillami, 2002 Orange , 2003 Boom , 2004 Deez to Blues , 2006 Thomas Chapin: Ride , 2006 Trio Arc , 2008 Ancestors , 2008 Arc Suite T / Pi T / Po , 2010 Chrome , 2017

Lexigraphic entries

• Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .

Web links

• Mario Pavone's homepage
• Discography as a sideman at Allmusic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf Kampmann