Robert Dick (flautist)

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Robert Dick (born January 4, 1950 ) is an American flautist of avant-garde jazz and improvised music as well as a composer .

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Robert Dick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and another Masters degree in composition from Yale University School of Music . Dick worked as a flautist with experimental music and new music . Since 1986 he has recorded a number of albums with guest musicians such as Jim Black , Mark Dresser , Marty Ehrlich , Gerry Hemingway and others. His first album The Other Flute , which he recorded as a soloist, is dominated by Edgar Varèses composition Density 21.5

In the 1990s, Dick was a member of the experimental wind trio New Winds with Ned Rothenberg and JD Parran as well as the formation Oscura Luminosa , which was originally founded as a duo by Dick and the flutist Conrad Steinmann and recorded the album In Full Armor in 1996 . He also worked with John Wolf Brennan and Daniele Patumi in the Trio Aurealis and with Steve Argüelles and Christy Doran in the ADD Trio . In his album Jazz Standards on Mars , which he recorded with an expanded line-up for the Enja label in 1998 , Dick processed music by John Coltrane ( India ), Eric Dolphy ( Gazzelloni and Something Sweet, Something Tender ), Jimi Hendrix ( Machine Gun ), Wayne Shorter ( Water Babies ) Dick worked with Regina Carter and the Soldier String Quartet of violinist Dave Soldier . This music is very reminiscent of similar projects by the Kronos Quartet . He also recorded the album Photosphere with Ursel Schlicht and went on tour with her internationally. He also worked with the baritone Thomas Buckner , with whom the album Flutes and Voices (2010) was created.

Robert Dick lived temporarily in Switzerland , now in New York City . He teaches at New York University and has written several textbooks on the use of advanced techniques in the flute. He also gave courses at the Music Academy of the City of Basel, the Juilliard School , the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Vienna Conservatory , the Royal College of Music in London and other conservatories and universities in North America and Japan.

He has also appeared with Paul Giger , Steve Gorn , and Mark Dresser and was involved in early recordings of John Zorn .

Selection discography

Recordings as a leader

  • The Other Flute ( GM Recordings , 1986) solo
  • Tambastics (Music & Arts, 1992) with Denman Maroney , Mark Dresser, Gery Hemingway
  • Steel and Bamboo (OO Records, 1992) with Steve Gorn
  • Third Stone from the Sun (New World, 1993) with Marty Ehrlich, Jim Black
  • Worlds of It (Leo, 1994) with Ned Rothenberg
  • Aurealis (Victo, 1997) with John Wolf Brennan and Daniele Patumi
  • Jazz Standards on Mars ( Enja , 1998)
  • ADD Trio: Sic Bisquitus Desingrat (Enja, 1998)

Recordings with New Winds

  • Digging It Harder From Afer (Victo, 1994) with Rothenberg, Parran, Hemingway
  • Potion (Victo, 1997) with Rothenberg, Herb Robertson

More sidemen shots

  • Oscura Luminosa: In Full Armor (Unit, 1996)
  • John Zorn: The Parachute Years ( Tzadik , 1977-81)

bibliography

  • The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques
  • Tone Development through Extended Techniques .
  • Flute and circular breathing Zimmermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1995 (English original 1986).

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Gazzeloni is the new music flautist who inspired Eric Dolphy. Dick paid tribute to him on his first album, The Other Flute , with Eric Dolphy's composition of the same name; see. Cook & Morton, pp. 399 f.
  2. ↑ Shorter's composition was recorded for the first time in 1967 with the Miles Davis Quintet and released on the album of the same name in the 1970s
  3. ↑ Cook and Morton, who give the album the second highest rating - *** (*) stars - consider Jazz Standards On Mars to be a very, very good and audible album that will attract a new audience to Dick ; see. Cook & Morton, p. 400
personal data
SURNAME Dick, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American flautist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1950