Seymour Wright

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Seymour Wright (* around 1975) is a British improvisation musician ( alto saxophone ).

Live and act

Wright first learned the trumpet at the age of seven before switching to the saxophone at twelve. After starting out in jazz , he finally came to improvisation music through the music of the band AMM and around 2000 played in a trio with Yann Charaoui and John Lely, with whom he made his first recordings. Since then he has been working in the British and international improv scene in formations such as lll 人 (with Daichi Yoshikawa and Paul Abbott ), abaria (with Ute Kanngiesser ), [Ahmed] (with Antonin Gerbal , Joel Grip and Pat Thomas ), GUO (with Daniel Blumberg ), STEPS (with Evie Ward ) and in a quartet with Paul Abbott, Cara Tolmie and Will Holder . He also played with Anne Guthrie , Martin Küchen , Sebastian Lexer , Paul Lytton , Steve Noble , Evan Parker , Eddie Prévost , Keith Rowe , Mikołaj Trzaska and Nate Wooley . Under his own name, he released the solo albums Seymour Wright of Derby (2008), Seymour Writes Back (2015) and Is This Right? (2017). According to the discographer Tom Lord , he was involved in eleven recording sessions in the field of jazz between 2000 and 2011. Wright's main job is as a foreign language teacher.

Discographic notes

  • Seymour Wright / Eddie Prevost: Gamut (Matchless, 2008)
  • Sebastian Lexer / Seymour Wright: Blowjob (Another Timbre, 2008)
  • Keith Rowe / Seymour Wright: 3D (wm o / r, 2008)
  • Küchen_Rowe_Wright (Another Timbre, 2010), with Martin Küchen, Keith Rowe
  • Eddie Prevost: Impossibility in Its Purest Form (Matchless, 2011), with Sebastian Lexer
  • Nate Wooley, Seymour Wright: About Trumpet and Saxophone (Fataka, 2013)
  • Evan Parker / Seymour Wright: Tie the Stone io the Wheel (Fataka, 2016)
  • John Chantler, Steve Noble, Seymour Wright: Front and Above (1703 Skivbolaget, 2017)
  • Mikołaj Trzaska & Seymour Wright: 9/12/16 (Otoroku, 2018)
  • Joel Grip & Seymour Wright: I Concentrate on You too (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 25, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Seymour
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1975