Perry Robinson

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Perry Robinson, Jazzclub Cavete Marburg 2011
At the city action of the ZMF 2016 in Freiburg
Perry at the ZMF 2018

Perry Morris Robinson (born September 17, 1938 in New York City , † December 2, 2018 Jersey City ) was an American jazz clarinetist. His music-making attitude combined elements of abstract improvisation and the jazz tradition with the klezmer and folk song-like.

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Perry Robinson was the son of folk singer and composer Earl Robinson . He grew up partly in Hollywood, then from 1953 to attend the High School of Music and Art in New York; During this time he was shaped by Tony Scott , with whom he jammed, and James Collis. After studying music, he attended the Lenox School of Jazz in 1959 . Influenced there by Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry , after a stay in Spain, where he belonged to the group of Tete Montoliu in 1961, he belonged to the first wave of the free jazz avant-garde and played with Bill Dixon , Archie Shepp , Paul Bley , Henry Grimes and Sunny Murray . During his military service (1963 to 1965 in Panama) he formed a trio with Bill Folwell and Tom Price , with whom he then performed in New York. In the late 1960s he was involved in Carla Bly's Escalator over the Hill and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra . The collaboration with Gunter Hampel that began in 1972 and lasted until at least 2006 has had a lasting impact on him. In the mid-1970s he played with Dave Brubeck and his sons in the band Two Generations of Brubeck . From 1975 to 1977 Robinson worked in Germany with the clarinet group Clarinet Contrast , which sparked interest in the clarinet in the contemporary jazz scene. With Mike Morgenstern , he founded the Licorice Factory in the United States in the mid-1980s, which is also characterized by the interplay of several clarinets . In the late 1980s he had a Sunday afternoon show JazzMagic at Blue Note , where he performed magic tricks in addition to music.

In addition, Robinson has worked with his own groups, but also with the New York underground scene (e.g. Allen Ginsberg , Tuli Kupferberg and The Fugs ), Rozanne Levine's Christal Clarinets and with Burton Greene's group Klezmokum . In 2009 he gave the world premiere of Gary M. Schneider's Concerto for Jazz Clarinet & String Orchestra with the Hoboken Chamber Orchestra in New York .

Between 1967 and 1984 he was ranked first eight times in the critics poll of the US music magazine Down Beat as a clarinetist, which deserves more attention.

Perry Robinson has been a permanent guest at the Zelt-Musik-Festival in Freiburg since 1990 , he was there a total of 29 times until his death in 2018, and in total he spent more than a year at the ZMF. In 2007 he was the festival's first honorary awardee. In 2014 he was honored with the gala night of the festival on his 75th birthday. He was referred to as the good spirit of the festival.

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  1. ↑ The statement August in many jazz dictionaries is incorrect
  2. ↑ a b Perry Robinson, the good spirit of the ZMF, is dead , Thomas Steiner & Peter Disch, Badische Zeitung, December 4, 2018
  3. ↑ Perry Robinson 1938-2018 The clarinetist helped establish a place for his instrument in jazz's more exploratory corners JazzTimes
  4. ↑ "The Clarinet Contrast group, which brings together five clarinetists from three countries, is evidence of the return of the clarinet to contemporary jazz". Ulrich Olshausen in HR Information, 1976
  5. ↑ MF founder Alexander Heisler recalls Perry Robinson , Peter Disch, Badische Zeitung, December 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Perry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Perry Morris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 2018
Place of death Jersey City