Garrett List

Garrett List ( born September 10, 1943 in Phoenix, Arizona ) is an American trombonist and composer who has emerged both in the field of new music as well as in the field of improvised music and jazz.

Life and work

List received in the 1950s, a music training as a singer and trombonist and performed in choirs, concert bands and symphonic orchestras. Then he discovered jazz, he also pursued his music studies at the beginning. In 1965 he moved to New York City where he graduated from the Juilliard School of Music, was influenced by Luciano Berio and with Dennis Russell Davies founded the Juilliard Ensemble. While working with this ensemble he met Henri Pousseur and Pierre Boulez, whose works he performed. In the next few years he also worked with John Cage and La Monte Young, but also with Karl Berger, Anthony Braxton and Steve Lacy. He became increasingly interested in free jazz and was the musical director of the New York Kitchen Center for Video and Music. Frederic Rzewski brought him into the improvisation ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva. He also toured with his own groups throughout Europe and North America. 1980 invited him Henri Pousseur, at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège to establish an improvisation class in which he instructed musicians like Fabrizio Cassol, Kris Defoort or Michel Massot. He developed as a composer, an eclectic style of a " citizen of the world music," which he performed with his ensemble at festivals in Belgium and France, and created film scores ( for films by Man Ray, Fernand Léger, Hans Richter and Paul Gonze ). In addition, he also went with the ICP Orchestra on tour and played recordings with Johnny Copeland, the Willem Breuker Kollektief ( Driebergen- Zeist ) and Anthony Braxton a.

Disco Graphical Notes

• American Images ( Horo Records, 1972)
• Your Own Self ( Opus One, 1973, with Jay Clayton, Jerry Kaplan, Joan La Barbara, Frederic Rzewski, Jon Gibson and others)
• Fire and Ice (Lovely Records, 1978, with Youseff Yancy, Byard Lancaster, Ronald Shannon Jackson, genius Sherman)
• In and Out ( Igloo, 1985)
• Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town ( Igloo 1991)
• The Unbearably Light (Carbon 7, 1995)
• The Voyage (Carbon 7, 1998)
• Rwanda 94 (Carbon 7, 2001)