Terry Day
Terry Day (born October 17, 1940 ) is a British jazz and improvisation musician ( percussion , piano , saxophone , flutes ), songwriter and poet .
Live and act
Self- taught but from a musical family (his father was a drummer and his brother Pat was considered a child prodigy and played with Graham Bond ), Day began improvising with his brother Pat as a teenager. In 1960 he founded a jazz trio to which Terry Holman and the later Ian Dury composer Russell Hardy belonged as pianists; the trio, which was partly expanded to include guest Henry Lowther , developed into the improvisational formation People Band , which combined theater, readings and sculptures with music in its people show and existed until 1972. Since the late 1960s he has been in various groups in the British improvisation,Free jazz and experimental scene active, u. a. with Derek Bailey , Trevor Watts , John Stevens , Maggie Nicols , Steve Beresford , Raymond Boni , Peter Cusack , Max Eastley and John Russell , but also with Kilburn and the High Roads , Annette Peacock and Arto Lindsay . Due to illness, there was a career break for ten years from 1988.
Since 1999 he has been working as a musician and reciter of texts and poetry in the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO). After Tom Lord , he was involved in 55 recording sessions between 1968 and 2010.
Discographic notes
- People Band (with Mel Davis, Terry Holman, George Khan , Frank Flowers, Tony Edwards, Mike Figgis , Eddie Edam, Russell Hardy, Lyn Dobson; Transatlantic / Emanem 1968)
- K'Ploeng (with Maarten Altena , Derek Bailey, Tristan Honsinger , Michel Waisvisz , Maurice Horsthuis ; Claxon 1978)
- Groups in Front of People No 2 (with Evan Parker , Paul Termos , Maarten Altena, Pete Cusack, Guus Janssen , Paul Lytton ; Bead 1978)
- Interruptions (Emanem 1978–1981; ed. 2006)
- John Russell / Maarten Altena / Terry Day: The Fairly Young Bean (Emanem 1981; ed. 1999)
- Raymond Boni / Max Eastley / Terry Day: Les Mistrals (Nato 1986)
- Look at Me (with Tony Coe , Yves Robert , Tony Hymas ; Nato 1987)
- 2006 duos (with John Russell, Charlotte Hug , Rhodri Davies , Hannah Marshall , Phil Minton ; Emanem 2006)
Web links
- Web presence
- Terry Day at Allmusic (English)
- Terry Day at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Oral history of jazz in Britain
- ↑ Richard Balls Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll: The Life Of Ian Dury London 2001, p. 63
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 6, 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Day, Terry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz and improvisation musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1940 |