Mark Harvey

Mark Sumner Harvey (born July 4, 1946 in Binghamton , New York ) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.

Live and act

Harvey studied at Syracuse University (Bachelor's degree in American Studies 1968 with a thesis on jazz and religion), where he also played in the school big band and led jazz accompaniment in church services, and from 1968 theology at the Boston University School of Theology, where he studied at the same time 1970-1972 with Jaki Byard and George Russell at the New England Conservatory of Music . In 1970 he was ordained a clergyman to the Union Methodist Church, and in 1983 he received his doctorate in theology from Boston University. At the same time he founded the Jazz / Arts Ministry in various Boston churches and in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , following the example of the activities of the jazz pastor John Gensel , who was also his friend and mentor.

Harvey is the founder, conductor and composer of the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra , with whom he has appeared in the USA, Mexico and Europe since 1973 and has recorded several albums, such as The Seeker (2000) and Impressions (2014). He has worked as a trumpeter with musicians such as Gil Evans , Vinny Golia , Sheila Jordan , Howard McGhee , Rajesh Mehta , Paul Lovens , Claudio Roditi and George Russell and as a conductor with the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra , the Walter Thompson Big Band , the Amarillo College Jazz Ensemble and the MIT Festival Jazz Orchestra .

As a composer he received a. a. Awards from ASCAP and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation . He has taught at the New England Conservatory of Music , Tufts University , Emerson College and the University of Massachusetts Boston and is a jazz teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Fonts

• Jazz Time and Our Time. In: Angela MS Nelson (Ed.): This is How We Flow: Rhythm in Black Cultures. University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
• Rhythm, Ritual, and Religion: Postmodern (Musical) Agonistes. In: Theomusicology. Special Issue of Black Sacred Music. Volume 8, Issue 1, spring 1994.

Discography

• Lookin 'for That Groove (1978) with Ray Anderson , TC Campbell , Arnie Clapman , Lee Detlor , George Garzone , John Hagen , Baird Hersey , Kenny Mason , David Moss , Daniel Mott , Ernie Provencher , Tim Sessions , Stan Strickland
• George Russell: African Game (1983)
• George Russell: So What (1983)
• Aardvark Steps Out (Nine Winds, 1991) with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
• Paintings for Jazz Orchestra (1993) with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
• Aardvark Christmas (1997) with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and Sheila Jordan
• Just What the Doctor Ordered (1997) with Alan Berman , Peter Frieberger , Bob Klein , Pete Maguire , Medicine Mike , Philip Shimmel , George Worthmore
• Psalms & Elegies (1997) with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
• The Seeker (2000) with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra

Web links

• Mark Harvey at Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians, last accessed May 24, 2008
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