Jim Black
Jim Black ( born August 3, 1967 in Daily City, California) is an American jazz drummer and composer.
"With percussive playing surfaces equipped with an airy and complex sense of rhythm and a distinctive spirit of experimentation, he can add a personal touch in every context of new music on free jazz to techno. " (Wolf Kampmann )
Life and work
Black grew up in Seattle / Washington. In 1985 he went to Boston to attend the Berklee College of Music. Already at this time he took first albums with the group Human Feel to that included Chris Speed , Kurt Rosenwinkel and Andrew D' Angelo, and toured Europe. Then he settled first in Seattle, where he worked with Wayne Horvitz.
In 1991, he moved to Brooklyn, where he was a member of Tim Berne 's Blood Count, Dave Douglas ' Tiny Bell Trio and Ellery Eskelin Trio. In addition, he also worked with Paul Motian, Charlie Haden, Uri Caine, Christopher Dell, Carla Bley, Nels Cline, Peter Epstein and Matt Darriaus Paradox Trio. With Chris Speed , Skúli Sverrisson and Brad Shepik he founded Pachora first and then with speed, Sverrison and Hilmar Jensson your band AlasNoAxis, with whom he recorded several albums each. He is also a member of the Trio Azul and Carlos Bica Frank Mobus. Besides the recordings with his own band, he can be heard on over one hundred albums as a sideman. He also toured with Laurie Anderson and became deeply involved with electronic music.
Jim Black is not to be confused with the drummer Jimmy Carl Black.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Pachora, Pachora
- Speak to It, Feel Human
- Welcome to Malpesta, Human Feel
- Alas No Axis, AlasNoAxis (2000)
- Splay, AlasNoAxis (2002)
- Astereotypical, Pachora (2003)
- Habyor, AlasNoAxis (2004)
- Dogs of Great Indifference, AlasNoAxis (2006)
- Endangerous Blood ( Skirl, 2010)
- Somatic ( Winter & Winter, 2011) with Thomas Morgan
Lexigraphischer entry
- Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart, Reclam, 2003; ISBN 3-15-010528-5