David Murray (jazz musician)

Infobox musical artist
Name = David Murray

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Origin = Oakland, California, U.S.
Instrument = Bass clarinet
Tenor saxophone
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Genre = Free jazz
Modern Creative
Avant-garde jazz
Post bop
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Years_active = 1970s – present
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Associated_acts = World Saxophone Quartet
Clarinet Summit
Music Revelation Ensemble
David Murray Big Band
David Murray Octet
David Murray Quartet
David Murray Trio
David Murray Special Quartet
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David Murray (born February 19, 1955 in Oakland, California, United States) is a notable jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically [ cite web | url= http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2006/03/16/features/music/02roberti.txt | title = Best of the best, David Murray, presents workshop, concerts in Bozeman | author = Staff Writer | accessdate=2006-06-29 | publisher = Bozeman Daily Chronicle June 29 2006 ] on a variety of labels since the mid-1970s. One critic dubbed Murray the Joyce Carol Oates of jazz, comparing Murray's prolific and consistently highly-regarded work to the noted novelist's.

David Murray's use of the circular breathing technique [ cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/david_murray.shtml | title = Jazz Profiles - David Murray | author = Staff Writer | accessdate=2006-06-29 | publisher = BBC Radio 3 Jazz Profiles ] has enabled him to play astonishingly long phrases. Murray was initially heavily influenced by free jazz musicians such as Archie Shepp and Albert Ayler. He gradually evolved a more mainstream approach in his playing and compositions. Murray set himself apart from most tenor players of his generation by not taking John Coltrane as his model, choosing instead to incorporate elements of Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, and Paul Gonsalves [ cite news | url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFD8123BF934A15753C1A964948260 | title = The Pop Life; David Murray Comes Into His Own | author = Robert Palmer | date = October 27, 1982 | accessdate= 2006-06-29 | publisher= New York Times ] into his mature style. Despite this, he recorded a tribute to Coltrane, "Octet Plays Trane", in 1999. His 1996 tribute to the Grateful Dead [ cite web | url= http://www.musicbox-online.com/dm-dark.html | title = Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead | author = John Metzger | accessdate= 2006-06-29 | publisher = The Music Box Online ] , "Dark Star", was also critically well received.

Murray was a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet [ cite web | url= http://www.answers.com/topic/world-saxophone-quartet | title = World Saxophone Quartet | author = Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide | accessdate=2006-06-29 | publisher = Answers.com ] with Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill and Hamiet Bluiett. He has recorded or performed with musicians such as Henry Threadgill, James Blood Ulmer, Olu Dara, Tani Tabbal, Butch Morris, Donal Fox, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Ed Blackwell, Johnny Dyani, and Steve McCall.

Awards

*In 1980 David Murray was named "Village Voice" Musician of the Decade
*Murray was honoured with the Bird Award [ cite web | url= http://www.northseajazz.com/nsj68.en.html | title = Bird Awards winners 1985-2005 | accessdate= 2006-06-29 | publisher = North Sea Jazz] in 1986.
*Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989 [ cite web | url= http://www.oberlin.edu/newserv/01jan/jon_jang_performance.html | title = JAZZ ARTISTS JON JANG & DAVID MURRAY IN CONCERT FEBRUARY 8 AT OBERLIN COLLEGE | author = Bettie Gabrielli | accessdate= 2006-06-29 | publisher = Oberlin Online ]
*David Murray and his band earned a Grammy Award in 1989 in the Best Jazz Instrumental Group Performance category for "Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane" [ cite web |url= http://www.europejazz.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=202 | title = David Murray Creole Project | author = Jon Pareles - The New York Times | accessdate= 2006-06-29 | publisher = Europe Jazz Network]
*1991 honoured with the Danish Jazzpar Prize [ cite web |url= http://www.jazzpar.dk/start.html | title = The Jazzpar Prize | Staff writer | accessdate= 2006-06-29 | publisher = The Jazzpar Prize Official Website ]
*The "Newsday" named him Musician of the Year in 1993 [ cite web |url=http://www.walkerart.org/archive/D/A81355A1BDE3ABA46161.htm | title = David Murray | author = Staff Writer | accessdate= 2006-06-29 | publisher = Walker Art Center]

Discography

His 2000s recordings on Justin Time Records remain in-print, as of July 2007. Dates are of recording, not release.

Solo

* "Solo Live" (Cecma, 1980)

Duo

* "The Healers" (Black Saint, 9/26/87) with Randy Weston
* "Real Deal" (DIW, 11/3/91) with Milford Graves
* "Valencia" (Sound Hills, 1997 April 28) with Aki Takase
* "We Is: Live at the Bop Shop" (Delmark, 3/29/2000) with Kahil El'Zabar

Trio

* "3D Family" (hat Jazz, 1978)
* "Sweet Lovely" (Black Saint, 1980)
* "In Our Style" (DIW, 1986)
* "The Hill" (Black Saint, 1986)
* "Acoustic Octfunk" (Sound Hills, 1993)

Quartet

* "" (India Navigation, 1976)
* "Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club" (India Navigation, 1978)
* "Let the Music Take You" (Marge, 1978)
* "Morning Song" (Black Saint, 1983)
* "I Want to Talk About You" (Black Saint, 1986).
* "Recording N.Y.C. 1986" (DIW, 1986)
* "Lovers" (DIW, 1988)
* "Deep River" (DIW, 1988)
* "Spirituals" (DIW, 1988)
* "Ballads" (DIW, 1988)
* "Tenors" (DIW, 1988)
* "Ming's Samba" (Portrait/CBS, 1988)
* "Lucky Four" (Tutu, 1988)
* "Special Quartet" (DIW/Columbia, 1990)
* "Shakill's Warrior" (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
* "Ballads for Bass Clarinet" (DIW, 1991)
* "A Sanctuary Within" (Black Saint, 1991)
* "Body and Soul" (Black Saint, 1993)
* "Saxmen" (Red Baron/Sony, 1993)
* "For Aunt Louise" (DIW, 1993)
* "Love and Sorrow" (DIW, 1993)
* "Shakill's II" (DIW, 1993)
* "Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen" (DIW, 1996)
* "Sacred Ground" (Justin Time, 2007)

Quintet

* "Quintet at the Bim Huis" (Circle, 1977)
* "Children" (Black Saint, 1984)
* "Remembrances" (DIW, 1990)
* "David Murray/James Newton Quintet" (DIW, 1991)
* "MX" (Red Baron/Sony, 1992)
* "Quintet with Ray Anderson/Anthony Davis" (DIW, 1994)

Octet

* "Ming" (Black Saint, 1980)
* "Home" (Black Saint, 1981)
* "Murray's Steps" (Black Saint, 1982)
* "New Life" (Black Saint, 1985)
* "Hope Scope" (Black Saint, 1987)
* "Picasso" (DIW, 1992)
* "" (Astor Place, 1996)
* "Plays Trane" (Justin Time, 1999)

Big Band

* "Live at Sweet Basil Volume 1" (Black Saint, 1984)
* "Live at Sweet Basil Volume 2" (Black Saint, 1984)
* "Big Band conducted by Lawrence "Butch" Morris" (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
* "The Jazzpar Prize" (Enja, 1991) with Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra
* "Gwotet" (2004)

Miscellaneous

* "Interboogieology" (Black Saint, 1978)
* "Black and Black" (DIW, 1991)
* "Fast Life" (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
* "Death of a Sideman" (DIW, 1991)
* "Windward Passages" (Black Saint, 1993)
* "The Tip" (DIW, 1994)
* "Jug-a-Lug" (DIW, 1994)
* "Fo Deuk Revue" (Justin Time, 1996)
* "Creole" (Justin Time, 1997)
* "Speaking in Tongues" (Justin Time, 1997)

ee also

*List of experimental big bands

References

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/davidmurraymusic David Murray Fans Website]
* [http://www.3dfamily.org Official David Murray for management and publishing]
* [http://members.tripod.com/go54321/dm/davidmurray.html Unofficial David Murray Website]
* [http://www.bordeauxsalsa.com/index.php?theme=MUSIQUE&album=Now%20is%20Another%20Time&artiste=David%20Murray&genre=latin%20jazz -commentaires de CBS 2007 sur bordeauxsalsa.com]

ee also

*List of jazz musicians