Dominic Duval

Dominic Duval (* April 27, 1945 in New York City ) is an American jazz bassist and bandleader of Creative Modern and avant-garde jazz.

Life and work

Duval learned from the age of ten saxophone; Since 1958, he focused on the double bass, which he adopted a self-taught. He has worked since the 1960s in the peripheral areas of jazz. Only in the 1990s, he reached international notoriety through his work with Cecil Taylor, which lasted until 2005 and in the Cadence album " Qu'a - Live at the Iridium " was reflected, and the participation in the band of Joe McPhee ( " Seiro ", 1998). In addition, Duval since the mid- 1990s a number of albums under his own name, among others, the production of "The Navigator" for the label Leo Records with his string ensemble consisting of violinist Jason Hwang, the violist Ron Lawrence and cellist Tomas Ulrich. With his ensemble, he joined in 1998, extended to the wind Joe McPhee and Mark White Cage in New York's Knitting Factory on. In 2004, Rose appeared in collaboration with Jimmy Halperin and Jay Album Joy and Gravitas, most recently in 2006 the album Dominic Duval String Quartet Mountain Air, with Ivo Perelman, the duo album with Jimmy Halperin Some Calling and the Monk tribute album Monkinus. In 2007, he worked with Joe McPhee and Jay Rosen Trio X. He was also involved in numerous panel sessions of the jazz label Cadence and CIMP, where he musicians such as Andrew Cheshire, Chris Kelsey, Paul Lytton, Ivo Perelman, Herb Robertson, Glenn Spearman, Steve Swell, Mark White Cage and Nils Wogram accompanied their albums. He also played with Nora McCarthy.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Dominic Duval 's String Ensemble, State of the Art ( CIMP, 1997)
  • Dominic Duval, Nightbird Inventions ( Cadence Jazz Records, 1997)
  • Dominic Duval / C.T. String Quartet, Navigator ( Leo Records, 1998)
  • Joe McPhee & Dominic Duval, The Dream Book ( Cadence, 1998)
  • Dominic Duval Quintet, Cries and Whispers ( Cadence, 2001)
  • Dominic Duval String & Brass Ensemble, American Scrapbook ( CIMP, 2002)
  • Dominic Duval, Songs for Krakow ( Nottwo, 2007)
  • Ivo Perelman / Dominic Duval, Nowhere to Hide ( Nottwo, 2008)
  • Dominic Duval / Jimmy Halperin, Monkinus ( CIMP, 2007)
  • Dominic Duval / Cecil Taylor, The Last Dance Volumes 1 and 2 ( Cadence Jazz Records, 2009)
  • Dominic Duval / Jimmy Halperin, Monk Dreams ( NoBusiness, 2009)
  • Dominic Duval / Jimmy Halperin, Music of John Coltrane ( NoBusiness, 2010)
Mark Whitecage Thelonious Monk Steve Swell Jean-Louis Comolli Richard Cook (journalist) Discogs
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