Jamie Muir

Jamie Muir (* in Edinburgh ) is a British artist who has contributed primarily as a percussionist for the development of new improvisational music and also belonged to King Crimson.

Life and work

Muir had first piano lessons and played horn before settling while studying at the Edinburgh College of Art turned to jazz. He played trumpet briefly but then switched to drums and founded in the early sixties the band The Assassination Attempt, who played free jazz. When he moved to London, he played in the Little Theater with Derek Bailey. In 1968 the two with Evan Parker the Music Improvisation Company, which existed until 1971 and was soon expanded to a quartet with Hugh Davies. Muir integrated numerous Objects trouves in his game. It was his intention, these discarded by other things do not turn into an antique shop, but to be treated as waste, but which one " approach with absolute respect for its nature as waste " should be. " The way to find the undiscovered in the dimensions of art, is everything familiar to discard ( the veiling of the Unknown ) immediately -. So as to give the music a future" The Music Improvisation Company was internationally for their album for ECM known.

In addition, Muir also played briefly with Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments, 1970 in the band Boris ( with Don Weller, Jamie Peters and Jimmy Roche) as well as in the African rock band assegai, and then to start with Alan Gowen and Allan Holdsworth Sunship. In the summer of 1972 Robert Fripp then took him as a percussionist to King Crimson, where he worked until early 1973. According to David Cross all members of the band learned an incredible amount of Muir, who acted as a catalyst.

As Muir decided to comply with strict principles of Buddhism and retire to a monastery, he left the band after the album Larks ' Tongues in Aspic was completed. Only in 1980 he returned to London, where he again worked with Bailey. Together with Michael Giles, David Cunningham, he wrote in 1983, the soundtrack for Ghost Dance.

Muir has completely withdrawn in 1989 by the music scene and now devotes himself solely to painting.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Music Improvisation Company ( ECM, 1970)
  • Music Improvisation Company 1968-1971 ( Incus, 1971)
  • King Crimson Larks ' Tongues In Aspic (1973 )
  • Jamie Muir, Derek Bailey Dart Drug ( Incus, 1981)
  • Michael Giles / Jamie Muir / David Cunningham Ghost Dance (1983 )
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