Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman ( born 14 September 1937 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas ) is an American jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, percussionist, singer, composer. He is one of the founders of the AACM and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Life and work
Jarman grew up in Chicago and studied at the High School drums, but switched during his military service to the saxophone and clarinet. There he played in an army band, the 11th Airborne Division band. 1959, after his discharge from the army, Jarman studied at Wilson Junior College. There he met bassist Malachi Favors and saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill and Anthony Braxton know. Mitchell presented Jarman pianist Muhal Richard Abrams ago, and Jarman, Mitchell and Maghostut were members of Abrams ' Experimental Band, a formation that initially only played private and not public appearance, when it was founded in 1961. The same musicians played at this time in a variety of compositions and eventually founded 1965, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM ).
During this time, Jarman made his first solo albums; In 1966 he took on the Delmark label with his band Album Song For on that inserted the word spoken at that time unusual way and so-called "little instruments" used, a technique that Jarman and Mitchell should apply more effectively during Art Ensemble. .
Shortly after the death of his band members Charles Clark and Christopher Gaddy in 1969 came Jarman Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors and trumpeter Lester Bowie, who had founded in 1967, the Art Ensemble. From 1969 it became known as Art Ensemble of Chicago. Within the group Jarman is known as the " champions of the word / music connection, when the distinctive intellectual, poet and man of the theater ".
The group met in their concerts on costumes; Jarman was wearing makeup african face and declared that " as a kind of shamanistic image that is fed from different cultures. " With his instrumental theater Jarman emphasized the "unity of all the arts ." The group went to Paris in 1969 and Jarman settled there several years down. In 1983 he moved from New York to Chicago and lived there ever since.
In addition to working in the Art Ensemble Jarman pursued repeatedly projects of their own: so he joined in 1977 with Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton on the New Jazz Festival Moers, took around 1980 with Don Moye on several albums and also played in a trio with Thurman Barker and Amina Claudine Myers. By 1993, Jarman was the kind of ensemble; then he devoted himself to spiritual practices, focused on Zen Buddhism and Aikido and lasted until 1996 by the jazz scene back. This year, he took in a duo with Marilyn Crispell on the album Connecting Spirits containing compositions by him and John Coltrane. Jarman returned in 2003 to the Art Ensemble of Chicago back.
In addition to the saxophone and the clarinet Jarman plays countless woodwind and percussion instruments. As a composer he has written works for orchestra and multimedia pieces of music and dance.