Ronald Shannon Jackson

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Ronald Shannon Jackson ( moers festival 2011)

Ronald Shannon Jackson (born January 12, 1940 in Fort Worth , Texas , † October 19, 2013 there ) was an American jazz musician with innovative drumming . He was initially influenced by the free drumming of a Milford Graves and a Sunny Murray , but developed it further in a polyrhythmic complexity, whereby he particularly emphasized funky grooves. With this style he was able to reach a larger audience.

Live and act

Shannon Jackson attended regular sessions with Ray Charles ' accompanists as a teenager . He studied history and sociology in Texas, Missouri and Connecticut. In the mid-1960s he came to New York City on a music scholarship , where he was involved in Albert Ayler's legendary free jazz recordings. He also played with Charles Mingus , Betty Carter , Jackie McLean , Joe Henderson , Kenny Dorham , McCoy Tyner , Herbie Hancock , Wayne Shorter , Ray Bryant , Bennie Maupin and Stanley Turrentine . In the mid-1970s he was one of the musicians who developed a rock-related free game with Ornette Coleman in the harmolodic system. He developed this jazz punk further in the group of Coleman guitarist James Blood Ulmer . In the late 1970s he also played with Cecil Taylor and Albert Mangelsdorff . Then he founded his z. T. founded large-format group Decoding Society , in which the concept was brought to maturity. With her he performed successfully in Europe (first at the Moers Festival ). However , according to Wolf Kampmann , “the innovative rage” of his decoding society wore off “despite excellent teammates like Vernon Reid , Steve Salas , Reggie Washington or Eric Person and gave way to an uninspired groove routine towards the end of the 80s .” During his drum - & - attempts at poetry were not recognized, he was able to "reconnect with the early days of his band" with the album Red Warrior produced by Bill Laswell .

1986 and later he was successful with Bill Laswell, Peter Brötzmann and Sonny Sharrock as Last Exit , in the early 1990s then with the bassist Melvin Gibbs and the guitarist Bill Frisell as Power Tools . A nervous disease forced him to stop playing in the 1990s. At times he switched to composing. From 2005 he was able to perform again. Most recently he was touring Europe with Wadada Leo Smith , Vijay Iyer and John Lindberg and with Melvin Gibbs, Joseph Bowie , Vernon Reid and James Blood Ulmer. He died of leukemia in October 2013 at the age of 73 .

The Rolling Stone listed him in 2016 at number 83 of the 100 best drummers of all time .

Discographic notes

Under his own name

  • Eye on You (About Time, 1980)
  • Nasty (Moers Music, 1981)
  • Street Priest (Moers, 1981)
  • Mandance (Antilles Records, 1982)
  • Barbeque Dog (Antilles, 1983)
  • Montreux Jazz Festival (Knit Classics, 1983)
  • Pulse (Records, 1984)
  • Decode Yourself (Iceland, 1985)
  • Taboo (Venture / Virgin, 1981-1983)
  • Earned Dream (Knit Classics, 1984)
  • Live at Greenwich House (Knit Classics, 1986)
  • Live at the Caravan of Dreams (Caravan of Dreams, 1986)
  • When Colors Play (Caravan of Dreams, 1986)
  • Texas (Caravan of Dreams, 1987)
  • Red Warrior ( Axiom , 1990)
  • Raven Roc ( DIW , 1992)
  • Live in Warsaw (Knit Classics, 1994)
  • What Spirit Say (DIW, 1994)
  • Shannon's House ( cook , 1996)
  • Ronald Shannon Jackson Presents PowerTools - Live at the Knitting Factory 1989 (ed. 2020)

Lexical entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in JazzTimes
  2. ↑ Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazzlexikon , p. 263.
  3. ↑ 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time. Rolling Stone , March 31, 2016, accessed August 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Ronald Shannon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician with innovative drumming skills
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Worth , Texas
DATE OF DEATH 19th October 2013
Place of death Fort Worth , Texas