Michaël Attias
Michaël Attias (* 4. August 1968 in Haifa ) is an Israeli, living in the United States jazz - saxophonist .
Live and act
Attias, whose parents come from Morocco, grew up in Paris and Minneapolis and, under the influence of Nat Hentoff's jazz book and Ornette Coleman's album The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959), began to occupy himself with jazz music at the age of 15 and learned to play the saxophone. He took classes with Alan Silva in Paris and with Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan University in the early 1990s . At the beginning of his career he worked a. a. with Anthony Braxton (of which he was a member of the piano quartet and orchestra), Bruce Eisenbeil and Fred Lonberg-Holm ( Joy of Being 1997).
In 2004 he recorded his debut album Credo ( Clean Feed Records ), u. a. with Igal Foni , Chris Lightcap and Reut Regev , He also worked with Paul Motian , Terumasa Hino and Masabumi Kikuchi ( Counter Current Sony, 2007). In the 2000s he worked in the Trio Renku with John Hébert and Satoshi Takeishi (album of the same name in 2005), which was supplemented by Russ Lossing and Tony Malaby ( Twines of Colesion , 2008), in the improvisation band Clinamen with Hébert, Malaby, Matt Moran , Mark Taylor, Takeishi, and Tyshawn Sorey . Michael Attias curated the Night of the Ravished Limbs event series in Barbès (Brooklyn) . During this time he also worked in groups with Steve Swell , Sean Conly , Ken Filiano , Ben Gerstein , Edward Ratliff and Anthony Coleman ( The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same , Tzadik, 1997). In the field of jazz he was involved in 25 recording sessions between 1992 and 2012.
Discographic notes
- Credo (Clean Feed, 2005)
- Renku (Playscape, 2004)
- Positive Catastrophe Garabato's Volume One ( Cuneiform Records 2009, with Mark Taylor , Abraham Gomez-Delgado, Keith Witty, Jen Shyu , Tomas Fujiwara , Matt Bauder , Pete Fitzpatrick, Reut Regev , Taylor Ho Bynum )
- Spun Tree (2012), with Ralph Alessi , Matt Mitchell , Sean Conly, Tom Rainey
- Live in Greenwich Village (2016)
- Nerve Dance (Clean Feed, 2017)
- Échos la nuit (Out Of Your Head, 2019)
Web links
- Portrait (2007) at All About Jazz
- Web presence
- Michaël Attias at Allmusic (English)
- Michaël Attias at Discogs (English)
- Interview (2015)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Attias, Michaël |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Attias, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haifa |