Chris Lightcap
Chris Lightcap ( born April 23, 1971 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz bassist and bandleader.
Life and work
Lightcap grew up in Westmoreland County and, after his arrival in New York since the mid-1990s with Joe Morris, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor. In 1997, he participated in Rob Brown's CIMP - production Scratching the Surface.
In 1998 he played in a trio with Whit Dickey, Rob Brown ( Transonic ) and a quartet of Joe Morris with Mat Maneri, Nate McBride and Jerome Dupree (A Cloud of Black Birds). In 1999 he played in the band of saxophonist Michaël Attias ( Credo) and took on the label Fresh Sound Records (New talent ) to the album Lay-Up, in which Tony Malaby, tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry and drummer Gerald Cleaver participated; with Cleaver and McHenry, he also played on the album In Metropolitan Motion by pianist Ben Waltzer and with Cleaver on the Trio album Light Made Lighter Craig Taborn of the pianist.
Followed in 2002 by Light Caps second album Bigmouth. In 2003 he played in the band of drummer Joe Smith ( Melodic Workshop). Lightcap also worked with Marc Ribot, Regina Carter, Mark Turner, Sheila Jordan, James Carter, Butch Morris, Ben Monder, Chad Taylor and Tom Harrell. Model for Light Caps group style with the use of two saxophonists in the opinion of the authors, Richard Cook and Brian Morton, the piano -less group of Ornette Coleman in the 1960s.
Swell
- Bielefeld catalog / Jazz, 2002, ISSN 0171-9505
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 9th edition Penguin, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- Jazz bassist
- American musician
- Born in 1971
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