Michael Gibbs

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Michael Clement Irving "Mike" Gibbs (born September 25, 1937 in Salisbury ( Zimbabwe )) is a British jazz musician (trombonist and pianist), who has emerged primarily as an arranger and composer. Since 1974 he has been teaching composition at Berklee.

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After training at Berklee College of Music and with Gunther Schuller , George Russell and JJ Johnson at the Lenox School of Jazz and at the New England Conservatory , he was taught in Tanglewood by Aaron Copland , Iannis Xenakis , Lukas Foss and again Schuller. In 1963 he arranged a first album for Gary Burton . From 1965 he lived in Great Britain, where he initially worked as an arranger for Graham Collier , John Dankworth , Tubby Hayes and as a studio musician. He later orchestrated for Manfred Mann , Buddy Rich , Joni Mitchell , John McLaughlin , Uriah Heep , Michael Mantler , Peter Gabriel , Chris Hinze , Jaco Pastorius (among others on Word of Mouth ), Whitney Houston and Marianne Faithfull , but also for the orchestra Kurt Edelhagen and various European broadcasters, where he worked with Gary Burton and Joachim Kühn , among others . His compositions have been recorded by Burton, Stan Getz , Cleo Laine , Stanley Clarke, and others.

Gibbs has been one of the leading jazz composers and arrangers since around 1970. Building on Gil Evans , Charles Ives and Olivier Messiaen , he has found his own style and sound in which rock jazz elements fit.

In addition, Michael Gibbs has also written the music for various film and television productions since the early 1970s, including David Greene's In the Fangs of Madame Sin in 1972 , Maurice Hatton's American Roulette in 1988 , Ken Russell's The Whore in 1991 and in 1992 to Stephen Poliakoff's Close my eyes, desire or kill me, or to John Woo's Hard Boiled .

Awards

His debut album Michael Gibbs from 1970 was added to the list in 1998 "Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One What Listening) 100" by The Wire added.

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SURNAME Gibbs, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gibbs, Mike; Gibbs, Michael Clement Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Salisbury , Zimbabwe