Julian Joseph

Julian Joseph ( b. 1966 in Hammersmith, London ) is a British jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader and music journalist for radio and TV.

Life

Joseph's parents were from the Caribbean, and he grew up in London ( Wandsworth ) on. His three brothers are also musicians. He received a classical music education (piano, in his own words, he began to compose at age 12 ), but has already visited as a student jazz courses on " Weekend Arts College ". In 1985 he went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After that he played in the bands of Branford Marsalis and Courtney Pine. Since the 1990s, he enters next solo concerts with his own groups in trio or quartet. Since 1994, he also leads a big band, in 1995 for example, played at the "Late Night at the Proms " and the London Jazz Festival 2002 with Joseph's three-movement composition " The Great Sage " opened (which is dedicated to Wayne Shorter and the film composer Patrick Gowers ). For the " City of London Festival " in 2003 he arranged for George Gershwin's " Rhapsody in Blue" for big band. As a composer, he refers to a variety of jazz - based musical influences a (music, English folk, West Indian music, classical music ). As a pianist he also accompanies singers such as Mica Paris and Emilíana Torrini.

In addition to his jazz activities, he also occasionally plays classical music in concerts (such as Bartok, Prokofiev, as well as George Gershwin's " Rhapsody in Blue" in 1993 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra ) and is involved in projects to classical music are combined with jazz music, for example with the classical violinist Viktoria Mullova ( " Through the looking glass "). In a concert tour "Imaginary Line" with pianist Marcelo Bratke they hired two wings 2005 classical music ( Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky ) and jazz ( Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, George Gershwin ) against.

From April 2000 to February 2007 he was on BBC Radio 3 weekly Friday the one-hour program "Jazz Legends", each an aspect of the history of jazz devoted himself and in which he interviewed many famous jazz musicians. Since 2007 it belongs to the team of " Jazz Line Up" BBC 3 In addition, he also created television series about jazz, including "Jazz with Julian Joseph " on Meridian TV and a series for Channel Artworld of Sky TV.

In 1992, he wrote the soundtrack for the film " Tale of a Vampire" ( Julian Sands ). " Bridge Tower - a London Fable " in July 2007 his jazz opera was premiered at the City of London Festival, which is about a Polish violinist George Bridge Tower, before the British King George III. played and inspired Beethoven to the Kreutzer Sonata. Since Bridge Towers father came from Barbados is also the subject of the slave trade and the ratio of Europeans addressed to citizens black skin (Joseph itself belongs to the "black community" of London ).

He is an important figure in the cultural life of London, the Mayor Ken Livingstone therefore awarded the "Creative Industries Luminary for London ". His compositions are even part of the jazz auditing standards at the music schools in England, whose advisory committee " Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music" he is sitting.

Disco printing specifications

• The Language of Truth ( East West, 1991) with Jean Toussaint, Alec Dankworth, Mark Mondesir, Sharon Musgrave singing
• Reality ( East West 1994) with Jean Toussaint, Peter King, Charnett Moffett, Wayne Batchelor, Mark Mondesir
• Universal Traveller ( 1996 trio with Reginald Veal (kb ), Mark Mondesir )