Pete Cosey

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Peter Palus "Pete" Cosey (born October 9, 1943 in Chicago , Illinois ; † May 30, 2012 ibid) was an American R&B and fusion guitarist who was best known as a member of Miles Davis' band between 1973 and 1975 and was stylistically formative.

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Cosey, whose parents were musicians, first learned to play the violin . After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to Phoenix, Arizona , where he learned to play the guitar as a teenager. From 1965 he worked as a studio musician for Chess Records , where he accompanied Fontella Bass , Etta James , the Rotary Connection , Muddy Waters ( Electric Mud , After the Rain ) and Howlin 'Wolf ( The Howlin' Wolf Album ), who rejected his distorted playing . He was also a member of Phil Cohran's Artistic Heritage Ensemble and The Pharoahs , who were interested in Afro Jazz ; since the 1960s he was therefore a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). He also played in a band around Maurice White , which later became Earth, Wind & Fire .

He toured worldwide with Miles Davis from 1973 and was involved in his albums Get Up with It , Dark Magus , Agharta and Pangea (as well as on some tracks from The Complete On the Corner Sessions ). Davis wrote in his autobiography about working with Cosey that he was exactly the right person for the sound of Jimi Hendrix and Muddy Waters, which he was looking for at the time. Cosey's idea of ​​sound and instrumental techniques influenced guitarists such as Henry Kaiser , Vernon Reid , Elliott Sharp and Robert Quine .

After 1975, the jazz world heard "next to nothing" from Cosey, at most a small guest role on Herbie Hancock's Future Shock . "He only got on Akira Sakata's album Fisherman's.com (2000, with Sakata, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake ) present again. In 1987 he replaced Bill Frisell in the Power Tools trio (with bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson ) . With a repertoire band, The Children of Agharta , which included Gary Bartz , John Stubblefield , Matt Rubano and JT Lewis, he began interpreting Davis' works from the mid-1970s in 2001. He can also be heard as a soloist on an album by Greg Tate's band Burnt Sugar ( The Rites , conducted by Butch Morris ) and on Bob Belden's American-Indian tribute album Miles from India ; On the latter double CD he is involved in a total of five tracks - Ife (Fast) , It's About That Time , Miles Runs the Voodoo Down , Great Expectations and Ife (Slow) . He is also represented on Bill Laswell's Method of Defiance: Inamorata on two tracks with Graham Haynes and Byard Lancaster .

In 2004, Cosey was seen in the episode Godfathers and Sons of Martin Scorsese's documentary series The Blues , in which Marshall Chess and Chuck D (from Public Enemy ) call together the musicians who were once on the album Electric Mud to play together again in the studio: alongside Cosey it was the wind players Gene Barge and Don Myrick, guitar colleague Phil Upchurch , bassist Louis Satterfield and drummer Morris Jennings.

Cosey died of complications from an operation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ben Ratliff: Pete Cosey, Guitarist With Miles Davis, Dies at 68 . In: The New York Times , June 6, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2012. 
  2. ^ Graydon Megan: Pete Cosey, 1943-2012 . In: Chicago Tribune , June 6, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012. 
  3. ↑ a b Bill Mikowski Pete Cosey: Guitar Catharsis JazzTimes July / August 2007
  4. ↑ Peter Margasak: Chicago guitar genius Pete Cosey dead at 68 . In: Chicago Reader , May 30, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2012. 
  5. ↑ George Lewis A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music Chicago 2008, p. 277
  6. ↑ Michael Rüsenberg Pete Cosey: 1944 (!) - 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzcity-net-edition.de
  7. ↑ A live recording of the trio is only now available.
personal data
SURNAME Cosey, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cosey, Peter Paulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fusion guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2012
Place of death Chicago