Bern Nix

Bern Nix ( born September 21, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American No Wave guitarist.

Life

Nix plays since the age of eleven and studied guitar at the Berklee College of Music. Then he came to New York, where he worked as a music teacher. Between 1974 and 1987 he was a member of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, and was of "Dancing In Your Head " (1976) about Of Human Feelings to In All Languages ​​( 1987), involved in all the recordings of the group. Since 1985 he runs his own trio. He is also a member of the organized by Denardo Coleman and directed by Jayne Cortez Fire Pitters. On his first own album, " Alarms and Excursions " (New World Records, 1993) played Fred Hopkins and Newman Taylor Baker. In 2006 he released the solo album "Low Barometer " ( Tompkins Square Records).

He also played an album with Frank Lowe, with Jemeel Moondoc and Lenore Von Stein and collaborated with Julius Hemphill, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Ronald Shannon Jackson, James Chance and the Contortions and Kip Hanrahan.