Royal Hartigan
Royal Hartigan (* 1947 ) is an American world music artist and jazz musician ( drums , percussion , also piano , composition ), musicologist and university professor.
Live and act
Hartigan grew up in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts , attended high school in Pittsfield and earned a first degree in philosophy from St. Michael's College in 1968; he received his Bachelor of Arts in African American music in 1981 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst , where he studied with Roland Wiggins , Frederick Tillis , Reggie Workman , Archie Shepp , Max Roach and Clifford Jarvis . He completed his master's and doctoral studies in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University (degrees 1983 and 1986); he did a comparative doctorate on drum languages in West Africa, Native American and African American, in Java and South India. His university lecturers were Ed Blackwell , Freeman Donkor, Abraham Adzenyah and musicians from Java, India, China and West Africa.
From the late 1970s Hartigan played in the Boston area with Michael William Gilber , Bill Lowe and David Bindman , from the late 1980s in California in Fred Hos & The Afro-Asian Music Ensemble ( Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! / Momma's Song , 2005) and with Hafez Modirzadeh , in the following decade also with Francis Wong ( Pilgrimage , 1994) Jon Jang ( Island: Immigrant Suite No. 1 , 1995), Tyrone Henderson ( Not So Unusual Blues , 1997), Gail Dobson and im Trio with Mike Heffley and Joe Fonda . From the 2000s Hartigan worked with Paul Austerlitz ( Journey , 2007), Rudresh Mahanthappa ( Kinsmen , 2007). The live recording Blood Drum Spirit: Live in China (Innova, with Wes Brown , Art Hirahara and David Bindman) was made in Shanghai around 2008 . In the field of jazz he was involved in 44 recording sessions between 1978 and 2012. Hartigan uses elements of Ghanaian, Indian and Filipino music as well as Native Americans in his compositions .
Hartigan has taught ethnomusicology , African percussion and world music ensemble playing at The New School for Social Research in New York and as part of the Liberal Studies program at Wesleyan University. He currently (2017) teaches world music at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He put u. a. the book West African Rhythms for Drumset (Manhattan Music Publications).
Discographic notes
- Bill Lowe, David Bindman, Wes Brown, Royal Hartigan, Kevin McNeal : Look on the Rainbow (Juba, 1987)
- Nathaniel Mackey , Hafez Modirzadeh, Royal Hartigan: Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25 (Spoken Engine, 1995)
- Royal Hartigan Ensemble: Blood Drum Spirit (1998)
- Bobby Bradford , Hafez Modirzade, Ken Filiano , Royal Hartigan: Live at the Magic Triangle ( NoBusiness Records , 2017)
Web links
- Web presence
- Royal Hartigan at Allmusic (English)
- Royal Hartigan at Discogs (English)
- Portrait at Tap Space
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 12, 2017)
- ^ Review of the album Blood Drum Spirit at Allmusic
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hartigan, Royal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |