Glenn Spearman

Glenn Spearman ( born February 14, 1947 in New York City; † October 8, 1998 in Berkeley ) was an American tenor saxophonist of free jazz.

Work

Glenn Spearman received by his stepfather, who played violin, piano and saxophone, first lessons on these instruments. He was initially interested but more for sports and wanted to be a football player. Due to his activities in the Black Power movement, he was interested in music again and started his career in the late 1960s in Oakland, California, where he played with musicians such as Charles Tyler, Donald Garrett and Wilber Morris and for the music of Frank Wright interested. In 1972 he moved to Paris, where he studied with Wright and Boulou Ferré next played in Bob Reid's formation Emergency. This group released several albums in the 1970s on the label Brain Records and appeared on radio and television broadcasts, and the Jazz Festival of Avignon in France. For five years he worked as an artist-in -residence in Rotterdam and toured Europe before he returned to the United States in 1978. In 1981, a duo album with drummer Donald Robinson, the Richard Cook and Brian Morton with John Coltrane and Rashied Ali's Interstellar Space Factory compare. In 1982 he played in the Cecil Taylor Unit. He then returned to California and worked in the area around San Francisco with various formations, with whom he toured in Europe. From 1988 he also worked with William Parker, Bill Dixon and William Hooker, and was co-founder ( with Marco Eneidi ) of the 21 -member Creative Music Orchestra, which was inspired by Cecil Taylor's large ensembles.

In the 1990s he worked in the band of Raphe Malik and collaborated on his album 21st Century text in FMP with, then founded the Double Trio with Larry Ochs, William Winant, and Lisle Ellis; with this band he performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. The work of Ornette Coleman's album The Mystery Project was dedicated in 1992. He also participated in the Rova Saxophone Vinyl projects Quartet John Coltrane 's Ascension, as well as the filmmaker Lynn Kiby projects. In addition, he taught at Mills College. He had his last appearance on 25 July 1998 to the Fire In The Valley Festival; he died in October 1998 of colon cancer.

After Cook and Morton -based Spearman's personal style heavily on the blues. According to the same authors he worked in an eclectic manner influences of such diverse musicians such as Illinois Jacquet, John Coltrane and Archie Shepp.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Utterance ( Cadence Jazz, 1990)
• Mystery Project ( Black Saint, 1992)
• Smoke House ( Black Saint, 1993)
• Freeworlds ( Black Saint, 1994)
• The Fields ( Black Saint, 1996)
• Th ( CIMP, 1997) with Dominic Duval
• Blues for Falasha ( Tzadik Records, 1997)
• Let it Go ( Red Toucan Records, 1997)
• First and Last ( Eremite Records, 1997)
• Surya: Stretch the Edge ( 1997)
• Working with the Elements ( CIMP, 1998)