David Haney

David Alan Haney ( born May 7, 1955 in Fresno ( California)) is an American composer and jazz pianist.

Life and work

Haney grew up in Calgary, Canada. He studied in 1977 at the University of New Orleans, and then continued his studies at Clarke College in Vancouver continued. From 1980, he received private lessons by the composer Tomas Svoboda. During this time he worked as a composer of contemporary music. His works have been performed in Portland (Oregon ) and at Linfield College, McMinnville (Oregon ). He has written more than a hundred compositions of sacred music.

From 1997 he turned to jazz. He is best known for his collaboration first with Julian Priester, John Tchicai and Hank Jones, then with Buell Neidlinger, Han Bennink, Mat Marucci and Wilbert de Joode, with whom he in different formations under its own name in the 2000s several albums for the label Cadence and CIMP grossed. In Vienna Porgy & Bess he gave a solo concert. With Julian Priester he was in 2004 on a concert tour in Belgium, Germany and France. With his own trio, he played at the jazz festival of Valparaiso; with the trio, which included bassist Michael Bisio then both Adam and Lane, 2006 incurred in CIMP sessions for the album Blues Royale and Blue Flint Girl. In 2008 he took duets with drummer Andrew Cyrille on (some pieces with Dominic Duval expanded to a trio ). Haney lives and works in Portland.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • The David Haney Collective - Live from Yoshi's ( Cadence, 2000) with John Tchicai
  • For Sale: Five Million Cash ( Cadence, 2001) Duo with Julian Priester
  • The Music ( CIMP, 2005) with Julian Priester, Adam Lane
  • Blue Flint Girl ( CIMP, 2009) trio
  • Clandestine / Conspiracy a Go Go ( CIMP, 2008) with Andrew Cyrille, Dominic Duval
Portland (Oregon) McMinnville (Oregon) Cadence Jazz Records Richard Cook (journalist) Brian Morton (Scottish writer)
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