Michael Bisio

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Michael Bisio (born March 4, 1955 in Troy (New York) ) is an American bassist and composer of free jazz and new improvisation music .

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Bisio began his training as a violinist with David Cobb, Professor of Bass at the State University of New York Albany (SUNYA), and won scholarships from the Congress of Strings and the Chautauqua Institute of Fine Arts . In 1979 he earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of Washington , where he studied with James Harnett. At the University of Washington, Bisio played jazz as well as classical and new music with the Contemporary Group , which he led with clarinetist William O. Smith and trombonist Stuart Dempster .

In the 1980s, Bisio also worked with Bob Nell , Barbara Donald , Jack Walrath and Bert Wilson . He played a total of six years with trumpeter Barbara Donald and took part in her comeback album The Past and Tomorrow (on Cadence Jazz Records , 1983). During this time Bisio founded his own quintet in Seattle with Bob Nell, saxophonist Rick Mandyck , drummer John Bishop , trumpeter Ron Soderstrom and violinist / pianist Beth Chandler . In 1983 the debut album Ours (CT Records) was created.

Bisio then got the opportunity to work as Artist in Residence for the Washington State Arts Commission and founded a series of concerts in Seattle, the non-profit organization Earshot Jazz . In 1986 Bisio worked with a piano-less quartet with Soderstrom, Mandyck and the drummer Teo Sutton . In 1987 Bisio's second album was created under his own name in Seattle on the Swedish Silkheart label. Shortly after the In Seattle album was released, Bisio disbanded the quartet and the bassist mainly worked in the field of classical music, as well as with ex- basie bassist Buddy Catlett and with keyboardist Wayne Horvitz , who had moved to Seattle at the time, and with the New York Composer's Orchestra West , in which Horwitz also participated. In 1990 Bisio participated in the International Creative Music Orchestra as part of the Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival , a. a. with Horvitz, Andrew Cyrille and Larry Ochs .

In 1993 he accompanied Charles Gayle on a tour. The following year he performed with Bern Nix and Jim Nolet at the Earshot World Jazz Festival ; he also worked in a formation with musicians from the Northwest of the USA, such as the pianist Bob Nell , the violinist Eyvind Kang , the trumpeter Rob Blakeslee and the drummer Ed Pias ; he also played with drummer Phil Haynes and accompanied Marilyn Crispell , John Tchicai , Glenna Powrie and Charles Gayle.

In 1997 he played in a duo with Eyvind Kang . That summer he went on tour with Joe McPhee . and recorded a duo album with him for CIMP , Finger Wigglers . For the concert in Seattle, the formation received the Golden Ear Award in the Concert of the Year category; In 1998 Bisio and McPhee released another duo album, Zebulon . In 1999 Bisio recorded two more albums for the CIMP label in New York, on which Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval and Joe Giardullo participated, In the Spirit and No Greater Love . In August 1999 Michael Bisio performed at the Knitting Factory with Joe McPhee's formation Urban Assault Vehicle . He then played in Dierdre Murray's chamber music jazz opera Running Man .

In 2000 he worked again with Eyvind Kang in Seattle; the album MBEK was created . He then went on a tour of France with Joe McPhee and the World Bass Quartet . He performed with the German saxophonist Frank Gratkowski at the Creative Music Guild in Portland. Bisio worked in projects with Stephen Gaucci , Avram Fefer , Jay Rosen and Tomas Ulrich in the 2000s and currently in solo, duo, trio and quartet formations.

Bisio has also worked with Andrew Hill , Sonny Simmons , John Tchicai and Vinny Golia throughout his career . Bisio says he sees his role models in Charlie Haden and Charles Mingus .

Discographic notes

  • In Seattle (Silkheart, 1986)
  • In the Spirit (CIMP, 1999) with Joe McPhee
  • Pulling Strings (CIMP) with Tomas Ulrich
  • Undolations ( OmniTone )
  • Connections (CIMP, 2005) with Avram Fefer, Stephen Gauci, Jay Rosen
  • Circle This (CIMP, 2007)
  • Collar City Creatology (2008) with Bisio, George Muscatello - Dean Sharp
  • David Arner Trio: Out / In the Open ( Not Two Records , 2009), with Jay Rosen
  • Stephen Gauci / Kris Davis / Michael Bisio: Three (Clean Feed, 2011)
  • Michael Bisio & Kirk Knuffke : Row for William O. (Relative Pitch Records, 2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Bisio, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Troy (New York)