Roger Dean (musician)

Roger T. Dean ( born September 6, 1948 in Manchester ) is a British biologist and musicians ( pianist, bassist, vibraphonist and synthesizer player) of jazz and improvised music.

  • 3.1 secondary literature

Life and work

Roger Dean learned as a young bass and played in the National Youth Orchestra. He studied biology at the University of Cambridge (BA, MA, Ph.D. ) and had there in the late 1960s and first appearances as a musician. He successfully pursued a parallel career as a scientist and as a musician. Since 1988 he lives and works in Australia.

Career as a musician

From 1973 he played with Graham Collier band; In 1975 he founded in London en improvisation ensemble " Lysis ", with which he ( among others, Kenny Wheeler ) recorded three albums. He also worked with Harry Beckett, Tony Coe, Tony Oxley, Derek Bailey, the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Barry Guy, Terje Rypdal, and many other of the English avant-garde jazz scene. With solo programs he undertook numerous tours throughout Scandinavia, Australia, Israel and the UK. He also worked as a writer, critic and composer. Influenced by Cecil Taylor as he is by Bill Evans and his bass playing of Barre Phillips; In his works, he combines elements of Webern, Cage, Coltrane and Miles Davis.

As an improviser he worked after moving to Australia to continue with his own band called " AustraLYSIS ". In addition, he has published extensively on improvised music, especially last about human- machine interactions in improvisation, but also on sound research.

Career as a scientist

Dean worked as a biochemist in structural research, to then turn to the molecular cell biology. From 1979 he worked as a " Reader" at Brunel University, where in 1984 he once again earned his doctorate and was a full professor is working for Cell Biology. In 1988 he took the post as founding director of the Heart Research Centre in Sydney, Australia, on. He remained there until 2002 and worked among other things on the cholesterol metabolism. From 2002 to 2007 he worked as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra. Since then, Dean has worked as a research professor at the MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney. He works primarily in the field of cognitive sciences and linked it his knowledge of music-making with physiological processes such as the perception of rhythm or affect.

Dean has published three scientific monographs as an author and editor of six volumes as well as 280 articles in international journals and series.

Literature (selection )

  • R. T. Dean Creative Improvisation: Jazz, Contemporary Music and Beyond, Open University Press, UK / USA, 1989 (136 pages)
  • R. T. Dean New Structures in Jazz and Improvised Music since 1960, Open University Press, UK / USA, 1991 ( 230 pages)
  • H. A. Smith and R. T. Dean Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945, Harwood Academic, 1997 ( 334 pages )
  • R. T. Dean Hyper improvisation: Computer Interactive Sound Improvisation, AR Editions, Madison, WI (USA ), 2003 (203 pages)
  • R. T. Dean Sounds from the Corner: Australian Contemporary Jazz on CD since 1973, Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 2005 ( 193 pages)

Disco Graphical Notes

  • AustralYSIS: The Next Room ( Tall Poppies, 1992)

Secondary literature

  • Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley: Rough Guide Jazz, Stuttgart, Metzler 2004 ( 2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-476-01892-2
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6
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