Artist: Muhal Richard Abrams
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
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Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Think All, Focus One
Year: 1996
Tracks: 7
Rejoicing with the Light
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
Mama and Daddy
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
Young At Heart Wise In Time
Year:
Tracks: 1
Levels And Degrees Of Light
Year:
Tracks: 3
Composer, arranger, and pianist Muhal Richard Abrams is for the most part a self-taught instrumentalist world Health Organization was deeply influenced by the federal Bureau of Prisons innovations of the later Bud Powell. Abrams has been a beacon fire in the jazz community as a cofounder (and get-go prexy), in 1965, of Chicago's legendary forefront music establishment, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). While Abrams is well-known as a mentor to trey generations of jr. musicians -- born in 1930 he was a decennium aged than his nearest peer in the AACM -- as a bandleader and professor at the Banff Center, Columbia University, Syracuse University, and the BMI Composers' Workshop, he is non invariably recognized for his substantial contribution as a player and recording creative person. Abrams' number one gigs were acting the blues, R&B, and concentrated federal Bureau of Prisons circuit in Chicago and working as a sideman with everyone from Dexter Gordon and Max Roach to Ruth Brown and Woody Shaw. But Abrams' possess recordings reveal his forcefulness as an groundbreaker. His 1967 debut, Levels and Degrees of Light on Chicago's Delmark label, determine the course for his own vocation and that of many of his AACM generation, including Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Leo Smith, and Anthony Braxton. Abrams is besides a conduit for the tradition. Though his medicine is celebrated for its forefront disquietude, he withal harry Bridges everything in his playing from boogie-woogie to bebop to release improv, as evidenced by Sightsong and Rejoicing With the Light, both on the Black Saint tag. Abrams has been a composer that moves through the classical tradition as well. Novi, his first symphonic music for orchestra and nothingness quartet, has been performed at various festivals, and the Kronos Quartet performed his String Quartet, No. 2.
