Ted Reichman

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Ted Reichman with the Ingrid Laubrock Octet im Kult , Niederstetten , 2011

Ted Reichman (* 1973 in Houlton , Maine ) is an American musician ( accordion , organ , keyboards , also percussion , electronics ), composer and music producer and organizer, who specializes in combining improvisation with various forms of jazz , ethnic and popular music .

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Reichman studied at Wesleyan University with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton , with whom he also recorded ( Duo (Leipzig) , 1993, and Ghost Trance Music ). He also worked as an assistant to Braxton's opera production Trillium M. with. After moving to New York City, Reichman worked with jazz and improvisation musicians such as Ben Perowsky , Chris Speed , Marc Ribot , Anthony Coleman , David Krakauer , Eugene Chadbourne and Roberto Rodríguez; he also played alternative country with Sue Garner and Laura Cantrell and rock music . In 1995 he founded the concert series alt.coffee in New York's East Village, in which his long-term collaboration with John Hollenbeck began, of whose Claudia Quintet he is a member. Reichman also served as a curator at the Tonic venue . Under his own name he published the albums Emigré ( Tzadik 2003, with Doug Wieselman , among others ) and Listen Now! My Ears are Bent (Skirl, 2006, with Mary Halvorson ), for whom he also composed. In the field of jazz he was involved in 31 recording sessions between 1992 and 2011, including a. with Dorgon y su grupo (with Matt Moran , Curtis Hasselbring ). In 2011 he appeared in an octet under the direction of Ingrid Laubrock at the SWR NewJazz Meeting .

He has also written scores for feature films ( Rick 2003 and The Memory Thief , 2007) and several documentaries such as States of UnBelonging (2005) and Ahead of Time (2009). He was a 2010 Fellow at the Sundance Institute Documentary Composers Lab . He also worked as a music producer for the rock musician Kipchoge and the formation Endangered Blood (with Chris Speed, Oscar Noriega , Trevor Dunn and Jim Black ). Reichman teaches jazz and contemporary improvisational music at the New England Conservatory .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 27, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Reichman, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Houlton , Maine