Michael Hashim

Michael Hashim ( born April 9, 1956 in Geneva, New York ) is an American musician ( alto and soprano saxophone) of modern and mainstream jazz as well as a composer.

Life and work

Hashim began as a student to study saxophone. He studied at Hobart College, where he in 1973/74 formed his own trio with Phil Flanigan and Chris Flory. In 1974 he worked with the Creative Musicians ' Workshop, where he worked with avant-garde jazz and post-bop musicians such as Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, Leroy Jenkins and Milford Graves. From 1976 on, he was until 1992 Head of the Widespread Depression Orchestra, the first of Providence (Rhode Iceland ) operated from where he lived from 1975. Later he settled in New York City and took lessons from Jimmy Lyons, Andy McGhee and Phil Woods. In addition, Hashim worked with a number of blues musicians like Muddy Waters (1976 ), Sonny Greer (1878 ) and Clarence Gatemouth Brown ( 1986). Since 1979, he led his own quartet and worked for several years with pianist Mike LeDonne. Together with pianist Jimmy Rowles in 1983 was the album The Peacocks ( for the label Stash ). In 1992, Hashim was a member of the first American band that traveled to China since 1949.

Hashim also worked as a composer for film, TV and dance performances. For the Stash label, 33 and Hep he took since the early 1990s on a series of albums in which Claudio Roditi except LeDonne the musician, David Newton, Dennis Irwin and Peter Washington participated. Hashim is considered for Richard Cook and Brian Morton as a modern repertoire of classic jazz player and its standards, such as Billy Strayhorn ( Multicoloured Blue ) or Kurt Weill interpretations ( Green Up Time ). His style is geared to the big swing saxophonists like Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter.

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As a leader

With the White Spread Deprerssion Orchestra

• Downtown Uproar / Boogie in the Barnyard ( Stash, 1979/80 )
• Time to Jump and Shout ( Stash, ca 1981)