Mike Heffley

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Michael "Mike" Heffley (* 1948 in the San Francisco Bay Area ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( trombone , piano ) and musicologist.

Live and act

Heffley grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area; his father was the actor and author Wayne Heffley (1927-2008), his mother Mary Holder was a literary worker. He started playing guitar and singing at the age of ten and learned piano and trombone at the age of 13. At the age of 17 he studied in the summer at Berklee College of Music . Back in San Francisco he played with musicians like Oliver Johnson and Rafael Garrett . After moving to Eugene, Oregon , he studied journalism at the University of Oregon (Bachelor 1977). He was a member of the Northwest Creative Orchestra in the late 1980s and was also involved in recording the formation with Anthony Braxton ( Eugene , 1989). In 1993 he completed his Masters at the Music Faculty of Antioch University , and then in 2000 he did his doctorate at Wesleyan University on improvisation and questions of idioms and identity among the artists of the Free Music Production label . In the 1990s he continued to work with Braxton, both musically ( Three Compositions for Sextet , 1994) and in teaching.

A solo album with Braxton compositions was created in 1996 ( Meditations on Early Braxton ); In 1998 he performed Braxton's work Re: Guarding 1 - Collaborations with Dead and Living Males and Females from Different Gene Pools in a trio with Royal Hartigan and Joe Fonda . In 2013 he presented the album Angelizing Franya .

As a musicologist, based on his dissertation, Heffley wrote a book on experimental forms of jazz and improvised music in Europe from 1965 ( Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz , New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005) and The Music of Anthony Braxton (Routledge, 2001). He also gave a lecture on the theory of free improvisation at the 2001 Darmstadt Jazz Forum . He also worked through his nephew, guitarist Jason Becker . From 2012 to 2014 he taught at Baker College .

Discographic notes

  • Anthony Braxton: Small Ensemble Music (Wesleyan) 1994 (Splasc (h) Records, 1999)
  • Anthony Braxton: Creative Orchestra (Portland) 1989 - Part 1 (ed. 2012)
  • Anthony Braxton: Creative Orchestra (Portland) 1989 - Part 2 (ed. 2012)
  • Mike Heffley, Joe Fonda, Pheeroan akLaff : Songs of Nature and Love (rec. 1997–2000, ed. 2013)
  • Piagnosis (Tender, Knowledge) (2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Wayne Heffley
  2. ↑ a b c Biographical information at Chronicle vitae.com
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 12, 2017)
  4. ^ Review of Northern Sun, Souther Moon at Columbia.edu
  5. ↑ Darmstadt Contributions to Jazz Research, Vol. 7 (2002)
personal data
SURNAME Heffley, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heffley, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco Bay Area