Nate Wooley
Nate Wooley (* 1974 in Clatskanie (Oregon) ) is an American jazz trumpeter and improvisation musician .
Live and act
Wooley, who grew up in a fishing village in Oregon , played the trumpet professionally since he was thirteen, initially in his father's group. While studying in Colorado , he was a student of Ron Miles , Art Lande , Fred Hess and Jack Wright . He then performed with musicians such as Anthony Braxton , Paul Lytton , John Zorn , Fred Frith and Marilyn Crispell . He also played with Bob Rainey , Alessandro Bosetti , Fritz Welch , Herb Robertson ,Kevin Norton , Tony Malaby , Randy Peterson , Scott Rosenberg , Matt Moran , Chris Speed , Andrew D'Angelo , Tim Barnes , Okkyung Lee and Assif Tsahar .
Besides appearances as a solo improviser, Wooley directs the trio Blue Collar (with Steve Swell and Tatsuya Nakatani ), the Nate Wooley Quartet (with Matt Moran , Reuben Radding and Take Toriyama ) and plays in the project Attack / Adorn / Decay .
In 2016, Nate Wooley received the Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2017 he received a grant from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation for his ensemble work Seven Storey Mountain . Time Out New York calls him "an iconoclastic trumpeter," and Down Beat named him Jazz Musician of the Year.
Discographic notes
- Blue Collar: Lovely Hazel , 2005
- Wrong Shape to Be a Story Teller , 2005
- Matt Hannafin / Brian Moran / Nate Wooley: This Machine Kills Fascists , 2005
- Daniel Levin : Blurry (Hatology, 2007)
- Nate Wooley / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Jason Roebke : Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing , 2007
- (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed, 2011)
- Trumpet / Amplifier (Smeraldina-Rima, 2011)
- (Sit In) The Throne of Friendship ( Clean Feed Records , 2013), with Josh Sinton , Matt Moran , Eivind Opsvik , Dan Peck , Harris Eisenstadt
- Seven Storey Mountain III And IV (2013), with David Grubbs , Paul Lytton , Matt Moran , Chris Dingman
- Nate Wooley / Hugo Antunes / Chris Corsano : Malus ( NoBusiness Records , 2014)
- Ken Vandermark , Nate Wooley, Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey : Noise of Our Time (2018)
Web links
- Web presence
- Discography as a sideman at Allmusic
- Interview in Jazz Right Now 2014
- Peter Margasak: Nate Wooley, Sonic Explorer. Bandcamp , January 22, 2018, accessed January 22, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wooley, Nate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter and improvisation musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clatskanie (Oregon) |