Franklin Kiermyer
Franklin Kiermyer ( born July 21, 1956 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian jazz drummer, composer and bandleader.
Franklin Kiermyer comes from a Jewish family and began twelve years playing the drums. For jazz, he came through the record collection of his father; early influences were the big band and New Orleans jazz drummer Sid Catlett, Baby Dodds, Minor Hall and Gene Krupa. His professional career began at clubs and private parties. After employment with Bela Bartok's Music of Tibetan Buddhism an important foundation of his musical development was. After graduating from college he first played in rhythm and blues bands.
Influenced by the music of the late John Coltrane Quartet with Elvin Jones and late Coltrane albums like Transition, Sun Ship, and First Meditations Kiermyer was then known in the New York free jazz scene through several albums in the early 1990s. In 1992, on his first album nexus Breakdown the Walls, which was einspielt with a larger horn section; Pianist was Peter Madsen. The album contained echoes of Coltrane works such as Africa / Brass or A Love Supreme. In 1994 his album for the label Evidence Solomon 's Daughter on which the tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders with his intense game played an important role, other players were pianist John Esposito and drummer Drew Gress. His second album Kairos Evidence (1995 ) makes reference to Coltrane's music around 1965 /66; his teammates were the tenor / soprano Michael Stuart, John Esposito and bassist Dom Richards; guest had Sam Rivers on soprano for a title with. In 1995 he joined with his quartet at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.
In 1999 he played with umdzé lumbar Samphel from the Tibetan Monastery Rumtek an unconventional work " Auspicious Blazing Sun" (1999).
Disco Graphical Notes
- Break Down the Walls (1992, connections )
- In the House of My Fathers (1993, nexus ) with Dave Douglas, John Stubblefield, Anthony Cox
- Solomon 's Daughter (1994, Evidence)
- Kairos (1995, Evidence)
- Auspicious Blazing Sun (1999, Sunship )
- Sanctification ( 1999 Sunship )
- Great Drum of the Secret Mirror ( 2002 Sunship )