Richard Grossman

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Richard Grossman (* 1937 in New York City , New York; † October 1992 ) was an American pianist and composer of free and creative jazz , free improvisation and contemporary music.

Live and act

Richard Grossman grew up in the southern United States and began playing the piano professionally while he was still in high school in Philadelphia . From the middle and towards the end of the 1950s he was part of the local jazz scene and played with musicians resident there at the time, such as Lee Morgan , Jimmy Garrison , Henry Grimes , Odean Pope , Reggie Workman and many others.

His early pieces on the piano were still kept in the hardbop tradition; towards the end of the 1950s, however, he changed his style under the influence of the music of Ornette Coleman as well as composers of contemporary music such as Schönberg , Webern , Cage and the European avant-garde. In 1963, Grossman began making free improvisational music. He directed the New Music Quintet (1964/65) and produced the first free jazz concert in Philadelphia in May 1965.

In addition to jazz-based free piano improvisation, which remained his basic form of expression, Grossman also dealt with noise and electronic music , playing electrically amplified cello , electric bass, vibraphone , percussion and electric piano in a wide variety of contexts between new music and free Jazz. He also formed a rock formation, "Duck Soup," which existed in Philadelphia and San Francisco from 1972 to 1978.

After 1978, Grossman lived in Los Angeles , played solo piano concerts there and also worked in duo, trio and quartet formations with Vinny Golia , Alex Cline , Ken Filiano , John Carter and many other musicians who were recording music on Goli’s Nine at the time Winds label produced. In the early 1990s, two more albums were made for the Swiss jazz label HatHut Records . Grossman has also appeared on numerous live radio concerts, held workshops, and given concerts at UCLA , Westmont, and colleges in Santa Monica . He has taught jazz and improvised music and has given concerts on the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture .

Discographic notes

  • 1999 - In the Air (Nine Winds) with Cline, Filaino, John Carter, Vinny Golia
  • 1990 - Trio in Real Time (Nine Winds) with Ken Filiano, Alex Cline
  • 1992 - Even Your Eyes ( hatOLOGY , 1990–92) with Filano, Cline
  • 1992 - Where the Sky Ended (Hat Hut Records | hatOLOGY, 1989–92) with Filano, Cline

literature

Web links

´ * Richard Grossman at Allmusic (English)

personal data
SURNAME Grossman, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH October 1992