Django Bates

Leon " Django " Bates ( born October 2, 1960 in Beckenham, England ) is a British musician ( piano, keyboards, tenor horn), composer and band leader of the Modern Creative Jazz.

Life and work

Bates, who played initially as a self-taught piano, studied piano, trumpet and violin ( and Others at the Royal College of Music ). In the early 1980s, he appeared regularly with Dudu Pukwanas Zila, but also at Harry Beckett. Furthermore, he was one of Bill Bruford's Earthworks Group. With Julian Argüelles, he founded his quartet Human Chain, but also played in the orchestra of George Russell, Courtney Pine and Ken Stubbs First House. He became known in the 1980s with the British jazz big band Loose Tubes, for which he wrote as well as Iain Ballamy. In 1990, he led his großorchestrales work " Music for the Third Policeman ". In 1991 he formed his own big band delightfull Precipe. He stepped further out solo, played with George Gruntz, Peter Herborn, Hank Roberts, Tim Berne, Sidsel Endresen with Josefine Cronholm and, with the Jazz Baltica Ensemble and with Linda Sharrock. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Dedication Orchestra. With Christy Doran, Phil Minton, Fredy Studer and Tacuma Jamaaladeen he could be heard in a Hendrix project. He teaches his few years on Rytmisk of Music in Copenhagen, where he heads his STORMCHASER Ensemble, with whom he had heard on the Berlin Jazz Festival in 2007.

His composing style is eclectic and like a collage. He takes up influences from pop to punk. Bates is in the tradition of Carla Bley and Michael Gibbs, by " a complicated mix of dripping waltzes, punk attitudes, acidic tone clusters, confused toothed counterpoints and leaning chorales " written.

Awards

It was in 1987 awarded by the magazine " Wire" as " the best composer " and in 1994 with the Prix Bobby Jaspar as " Best European Jazz Musician ", received the 1996 Mercury Music Award and finally in 1997 the Jazzpar Prize. His album Confirmation (2012 ), a Charlie Parker tribute with Petter Eldh (bass) and Peter Bruun (drums), was judged outstanding in The Guardian.

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