Stephen Haynes

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Stephen Haynes (born January 12, 1955 ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( trumpet , cornet , flugelhorn , also alto horn , Clairon ), who was also active in performances of new music .

Live and act

Haynes attended Bennington College and studied with Frank Baird in the brass faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since the 1980s he worked in the ensemble of Bill Dixon , who was his mentor, as well as with Gunter Hampel , Ehran Elisha , JD Parran , LaMonte Young , Cecil Taylor , George Russell , Earle Brown , Butch Morris and in Alan Silva's Sound Visions Orchestra . He founded the with Taylor Ho Bynum in the mid-2000sDouble trio that included Mary Halvorson , Warren Smith and Tomas Fujiwara . In 2007 he took part in Bill Dixon's orchestral production 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur ; furthermore he worked during this time a. a. with Joe Daley's Earth Tones Ensemble and Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Orchestra . In the field of jazz he was involved in 10 recording sessions between 1965 and 2011. Haynes lives in Hartford, Connecticut and is co-curator with Joe Morris of the concert series Improvisations , in which musicians such as Evan Parker , Ken Vandermark , Gerald Cleaver , Tyshawn Sorey , Fay Victor and Ingrid Laubrock performed.

The jazz musician is not to be confused with the British trombonist Steven Haynes.

Discographic notes

  • Stephen Haynes, Taylor Ho Bynum: The Double Trio - Live at the Festival of New Trumpet Music (Engine Studios, 2008), with Warren Smith, Tomas Fujiwara, Allan Jaffe , Mary Halvorson
  • Stephen Haynes / Warren Smith / Joe Morris: Parrhesia (Engine 2012)
  • Stephen Haynes: Pomegranate (New Atlantis Records, 2015), with William Parker , Warren Smith, Joe Morris , Ben Stapp
  • Search Versus Re-Search (Setola di Maiale SM3790, 2018), with Damon Smith, Matt Crane, Jeff Platz
  • Theory of Colors (2019), dto.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Short portrait ( All About Jazz )
  2. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 11, 2016)
  3. Short portrait from Schilke