Pat O'Leary (musician)

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Pat O'Leary (* around 1955) is an American jazz musician ( double bass , composition ) who often works in the field of mainstream jazz .

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Pat O'Leary, who is from Buffalo, studied piano and double bass at the Crane School of Music at Potsdam State University , from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in music. From the late 1970s he was active in the New York jazz scene; first recordings were made in 1980 with accordionist and guitarist Ray Rivera ( Let Me Hear Some Jazz ). In the following years he played in the bands of Illinois Jacquet , Teri Thornton , JR Monterose / Hugh Brodie ( Bebop Loose & Live , 1981), Pete Malinverni , Lionel Hampton ( Sentimental Journey ), Scott Robinson ,Hal Galper ( Just Us enja , 1993, with Jerry Bergonzi ), Michael Rabinowitz , Bruce Barth and Paul Lindemeyer .

In 2000, O'Leary took part in recordings by Mundell Lowe and Hendrik Meurkens in Hamburg ( Mundell's Moods , Nagel-Heyer ). In the 2000s and 2010s he worked a. a. with Harry Whitaker , Kayo Hiraki , Harry Allen and Dan Block . In the field of jazz he was involved in 39 recording sessions between 1980 and 2015, most recently in the formation The Heliosonie Tonetette around Scott Robinson (with Philip Harper , Frank Lacy , Tim Newman , JD Parran , Marshall Allen , Yosvany Terry , Danny Ray Thompson and Matt Wilson ). Their production Heliosonic Toneways Vol. 1 was a reinterpretation of Sun Ra's album Heliocentric Worlds from 1965. In 2010 O'Leary presented the album Live at Space Farms with Scott Robinson, Marshall Allen and Kevin Norton ; In 2016 he performed with the Bob Dorough Quartet. With Gabrielle Stravelli he wrote the song "Cake of My Childhood".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 30, 2018)
  2. ↑ Multi-Reedman Scott Robinson releases a Vividly Trippy Sun Ra Tribute in New York Music Daily
  3. ↑ Jazz Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 in The New York Times
  4. ↑ Gabrielle Stravelli's website
personal data
SURNAME O'Leary, Pat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (double bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1955