Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne Alexander ( born January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon (New York)) is an American guitarist, banjo player and composer. He has also worked as a music journalist and writes for both the All Music Guide as well as Maximum Rock Roll.
Chadbourne, who grew up in Colorado and Alberta, is a self-taught as a musician. He first played rock and roll guitar, but was soon repelled by the formal conventions of the genre. He occupied himself with other styles, from blues to country and bluegrass to free jazz and noise - to merge ultimately these different influences into a unique personal style. He was also influenced by experiments in style of Captain Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention.
Chadbourne has worked in the late 1970s, first with Carla Bley, John Zorn, Frank Lowe and Toshinori Kondo. He played in the early 1980s in the group Shockabilly with Mark Kramer (bass / organ) and David light (drums), with whom he released four albums. He went further on in very different contexts, as with Billy Bang, Shelley Hirsch, Elliott Sharp, Fred Frith or, but also with improvisers such as Derek Bailey, Jon Rose, Han Bennink, Tristan Honsinger, David Moss, and Paul Lovens. He also played with Camper Van Beethoven, Andrea Centazzo, Jello Biafra, They Might Be Giants, Sun City Girls, Walter Daniels, To, Uli Böttcher and Jimmy Carl Black.
Chadbourne has lived for more than 20 years in Greensboro (North Carolina). He also has his own instruments such as the " electric rake" developed, to an ordinary garden rake, a Pickup is fixed, and uses balloons as strings damper.
External links and sources
- Martin Kunzler: jazz lexicon. Volume 1: A - L (= Rororo 16512 nonfiction ). Completely revised and expanded new edition. Rowohlt Paperback -Verlag, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-16512-0.
- Website
- Interview at Cult Cargo
- Creative Music Archive
- Jazz guitarist
- Banjo Player
- Improvisation musicians
- Music journalist
- American composer
- American musician
- Born in 1954
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