Joseph Bowie

Joseph "Joe" Bowie ( born October 17, 1953 in Saint Louis, Missouri ) is a jazz and funk musician ( trombonist, percussionist and singer).

Life and work

Bowie grew up in a musical family; his father William Lester Bowie was a music teacher; the two older brothers, Byron Bowie (saxophone) and Lester Bowie (trumpet ) were musicians. He grew up in an initially influenced by R & B environment. At seventeen, he became a member of the Black Artists Group was formed in 1967 in St. Louis. His first long international residence followed in 1971 in France with other musicians of this group after the city St. Louis had set any support: Along with Oliver Lake, Baikida Carroll, Charles Bobo Shaw, Floyd LeFlore and Julius Hemphill, he worked in Paris. During his time there, he played among others with Alan Silva, Frank Wright, Bobby Few and 1973 at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Dr. John. He was a founding member of Shaw's Human Arts Ensemble, with whom he recorded 1972-1978 concerted and plates. Between 1973 and 1976, Bowie played in New York City continue with Cecil Taylor, Frank Lowe, Leroy Jenkins, Sam Rivers, Ornette Coleman and many more, which he was an integral part of the New York downtown scene. In 1976, he moved briefly to Chicago, where he was a bandleader for Tyrone Davis and other variables of the R & B. From 1978, he played two years with Shaw and Luther Thomas in St. Louis Creative Music Ensemble. He also worked with James Chance ( James White and the Blacks or ) and was involved in the album White Cannibal. 1980 Bowie presented his band Defunkt, which goes back to the Blacks, and with which he was successful in the following years, with international tours and recordings as Thermonuclear Sweat ( 1982). In 1984 he retired from the music business for two years and then again back with Defunkt.

In addition, Bowie played from 1986 to 2005 regularly in the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. He also was involved in recordings of Don Pullen and performed with the Liberation Music Orchestra, Hans Dulfer, with Luc Houtkamps POW Ensemble, with Count Basic, the Vienna Art Orchestra and the David Murray Big Band. He may still be heard in a trio with Adam Rudolph and Omar Sosa and with Sigi Finkel African Heart, and with his new group Kosen - Rufu.

Bowie was still active as a guest lecturer at many universities. Since 2003 he lives in Holland.

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
  • Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 1 Reinbek 2002 ISBN 3-499-16512-0
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