Joe Gallivan

Joe Gallivan ( born September 8, 1937 in Rochester, New York ) is an American drummer, percussionist and keyboardist, whose activities range from modern jazz, fusion and free improvisation.

Life and work

Gallivan began at the age of 15 years in Miami and then to play Latin jazz, first in the band of Eduardo Chavez and in the big bands of Art Mooney and Charles Spivak. He also accompanied by traveling musicians like Dizzy Gillespie or Dakota Staton. After studying at the University of Miami in 1958, he went to Boston, where it came to the first recordings; he was involved in a 1959 single with Sonny Criss and 1960 recordings with Kenny Drew and the Modern Jazz Orchestra. In 1961 he moved to New York, where he worked with Duke Pearson and together with Donald Byrd aufstellte own band, rehearsing in musicians such as Don Ellis, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Knepper, Herbie Hancock and Elvin Jones. The following year, Gallivan returned to Florida, worked for the TV show Music USA and focused on electronic music, influenced by Karlheinz Stockhausen's composition " Song of the Youths in the fiery furnace ." Since that time, he worked with the woodwinds Charles Austin in various configurations; They played a mixture of jazz, rock and electronic music. Gallivan sent a tape with recordings of Igor Stravinsky, who came after hearing the verdict that Gallivan had to take care a recording contract with Columbia. With Austin Gallivan played on the Miami Pop Festival in 1968 between Jimi Hendrix and The Mothers of Invention.

Gallivan worked at this time continue with the already established NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet ) and organized A Train of Thought, the first electronic big band for which he developed the equipment together with Stan Goldstein and active in the next Charles Austin Ira Sullivan was; the band accompanied Chuck Berry and Marvin Gaye. Work with Austin are documented on the albums Mindscapes and expressions to the World.

In 1969 he went back to New York, where he first completed movie soundtracks. He had further contact with Vladimir Ussachevski, a pioneer of electronic music in the United States, and bought one of the first mini - Moog synthesizer. Meanwhile, developer Robert Moog gave the drummer a contract to test his new drum synthesizer. The organist Larry Young (who had just left Tony Williams' Lifetime ) caught up with him and a guitarist named Nicholas in his lineup Love Cry Want, which was the successor of Lifetime in search of the fusion of rock and jazz. Gil Evans heard the band at the Newport Jazz Festival and invited Gallivan in his Big Band, where he then worked for two years. The sound effects of the drummer can be heard especially the title "The Meaning of the Blues" Album There Comes a Time in 1974. He also acted in 1975 with The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix.

1976 Gallivan went to Europe and lived in the next 13 years in London, Paris and Frankfurt / Main. At first, he played in a quartet with Keith Tippett, Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper; he also took with Elton Dean and Kenny Wheeler. Between 1979 and 1983 he worked in Europe with Austin and Butch Morris, but was back in New York to hear. 1983 the drummer worked together with musicians from the Frankfurt jazz scene as Albert Mangelsdorff, Heinz Sauer, Christof Lauer, John Schroeder and the jazz ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk. He then went to London, where he founded the experimental big band Soldiers of the Road, Elton Dean, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Claude depa, Marcio Mattos and other leading musicians of the London scene played. He also played in a trio with Paul Dunmall. In 1992 he took on the highly publicized album Innocence for the jazz label Cadence Records with Elton Dean and Evan Parker. In the 1990s, Gallivan lived for a while in Hawaii, where he led a trio with the pianist Brian Cuomo and the singer / bassist Jackie Ryan. In the 1990s, he founded his own record label New Jazz Records, on which the music of Love Cry Want was first published and music with his fusion trio Powersfield with guitarist Gary Smith and keyboardist Pat Thomas. Furthermore, he entered Spain and Austria with the Ektal ensemble and at Ronnie Scott 's in London he recorded in a trio with Brian Como and Jackie Ryan. By Paul Rogers, he works in duo and trio Rainforest 21

According to the judgment of Richard Cook and Brian Morton Joe Gallivan counts " of the forgotten pioneers of the music."

Auswahldiskographie

  • Peace on Earth ( Third Millennium, 1977)
  • Mindscapes ( Third Millennium, 1977)
  • Hopper / Dean / Tippett / Gallivan Cruel But Fair ( One Way, 1977)
  • Innocence ( Cadence, 1992)
  • The Origin of Men ( No Budget Records)
  • Meditation Orchestral ( No Budget )
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