Zane Massey

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Zane Massey (* 1957 in Philadelphia ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , also flute , vocals ).

Live and act

Massey, son of jazz trumpeter and arranger Cal Massey , played as a teenager in his father's band and in his own Latin jazz band Young Blood Jazz Men . From the mid-1970s he worked in New York a. a. with Earl Freeman ( Soundcraft '75 ) and Carlos Garnett . In the following decade he was a member of Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Company , with which he also performed in Germany. He also worked with Erol Parker , Roy Campbell , Gerry Eastman , Kaeef Ali , Jemeel Moondoc and around 2000 in the QPSM Unit formation (with Frank Lacy , Matthew Shipp, among others ).

Massey also performed with street musicians in New York subway terminals and was a co-founder of the musicians' association MUNY ( Music Under New York ), which became a regular band that played in Grand Central Station and later toured Europe. Massey integrates influences from hip-hop , reggae and dance music into his jazz-oriented style of playing . In 1992 he presented his debut album Brass Knuckels ( Delmark Records ), on which Hideiji Taninaka , William Parker and Sadiq Abdu Shahid participated. In the field of jazz he was involved in 28 recording sessions between 1975 and 2001.

Discographic notes

  • Zane Massey & The Foundation: Soul of Grand Central (Bart, 1994)
  • Safe to Imagine (1996)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review at philly.com
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 16, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Massey, Zane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, also flute, vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia