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DAVID MURRAY & THE BLACK SAINT QUARTET
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Wed, 10/01/08
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(1693 days ago)
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From: 08:00 PM
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To: 09:15 AM
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Location: AN DIE MUSIK
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Contact:
berlyons@verizon.net
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CREATIVE DIFFERENCES - FALL OPENING CONCERT
DAVID MURRAY BLACK SAINT QUARTET
DAVID MURRAY - TENOR SAXOPHONE,BASS CLARINET
LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST - PIANO
JARIBU SHAHID - DOUBLE BASS
MALIK WASHINGTON - DRUMS
$30/25 seniors and students w.ID
*ADVANCE BOOKING IS ADVISED FOR THIS CONCERT*
David Murray, tenor saxophone and bass clarinet player: has recorded over 130 albums between 1975 and 2008. His latest album, Sacred Ground, features Cassandra Wilson and the Black Saint Quartet, and is a tribute to the landmark recordings made by the artist for the seminal Jazz label in the 80's. David Murray's awards include: a Grammy in 1989 and several nominations; a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989); the Bird Award (1986); the Danish Jazzpar Prize (1991); Village Voice musician of the decade (1980s); Newsday musician of the year (1993); personality of the Guinness Jazz festival (Ireland, 1994); the Ralph J. Simon Rex Award (1995). David Murray was born in Oakland, California in 1955 and grew up in Berkeley, where he studied with his mother Catherine Murray (organist), Bobby Bradford, Arthur Blythe, Stanley Crouch, Margaret Kohn and many others before he left Ponoma College (Los Angeles) for New York in 1975. In New York he met and played with Cecil Taylor, who along with Dewey Redman, gave the young musician the encouragement he needed. The city would again be a source of new encounters, with people and with music from all horizons : Sunny Murray, Tony Braxton, Oliver Lake, Don Cherry. In Ted Daniel's Energy Band he worked with Hamiet Bluiett, Lester Bowie and Frank Lowe.
In 1976, after an European tour, David Murray set up the first of his mythic groups, the World Saxophone Quartet, with Oliver Lake, Hamiet Bluiett and Julius Hemphill. This marked the beginning of an intensely creative time, when one recording led to another, with an endless permutation of formations.
From Jerry Garcia to Max Roach, from Randy Weston to Elvin Jones, David Murray worked as widely as possible until 1978, when he set up his own quartet, then octet and finally his quintet. From this time on his focus is more on his own formations, although he frequently works with other musicians, drawing in a whole range of different sounds, from strings (the 1982 concert at the Public Theatre in New York), to Ka drums from Guadeloupe (Créole in 1998 and Yonn Dé in 2002) and South African dancers and musicians (Mbizo, 1998), just some of the treasures he has discovered on his journey. Two documentaries have been made about David Murray's life : "Speaking in Tongues" (1982) and "Jazzman", nominated at the Baltimore Film Festival (1999).
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