Kip Hanrahan

Kip Hanrahan (born December 9, 1954) is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist. Born to an Irish-Jewish family in the Bronx, New York.

Hanrahan has an unusual role in the albums released under his name, one which he has analogized to that of a film director. He assembles players and materials, combining modern/avant-garde/free jazz figures like Don Pullen and Steve Swallow, Latin jazz players such as Milton Cardona and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and occasionally rock singers like Sting and, most notably, Jack Bruce.

Hanrahan produced a number of significant recordings the Nuevo Tango master Astor Piazzolla in the last decade of Piazzolla's life, as well as recordings by Latin music figures Jerry Gonzalez, Milton Cardona, and others.

Hanrahan also worked with the poet Ishmael Reed on 3 recordings with the Conjure Ensemble, including the 2006 "Bad Mouth." These side projects were not the only poetry based discs, "Darn It!" from 1994 celebrates the work of Paul Haines.

Discography

This listing includes recordings released under Hanrahan's name, as well as those released under the name Conjure.
* "Coup de Tete" - recorded 1979-81Kip Hanrahan, Jerry Gonzalez, Daniel Ponce, Arto Lindsay, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Anton Fier, Chico Freeman, Carlos Ward, Ignacio Berroa, John Stubblefield, Carla Bley, Teo Macero, Bill Laswell, Billy Bang, Lisa Herman, Nicky Marrero, Byard Lancaster, George Cartwright, Orlando DiGirolamo, Dom Um Romao, Fred Frith, Mike Mantler, Dave Liebman
* "Desire Develops an Edge" - recorded 1982-3
Jack Bruce, Kip Hanrahan, Steve Swallow, Puntilla Orlando Rios, Arto Lindsay, Elysee Pyronneau, Ricky Ford, Ignacio Berroa, Jerry Gonzalez, John Stubblefield, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Anton Fier, Milton Cardona, Teo Macero, Tiplume Ricardo Franck, Frisner Augustin, Sergio Brandao, John Scofield, Jody Harris, others
* "Conjure" - recorded 1983, released 1985
Taj Mahal, Allen Toussaint, David Murray, Steve Swallow, Carla Bley, Lester Bowie, Kip Hanrahan, Carman Moore, Olu Dara, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Puntilla, Milton Cardona, Kenny Kirkland, Ejaye Tracey, Don Jay, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Billy Hart, Frisner Augustin, Olufemi Claudette Mitchell, Robert Jason, Molly Farley, Brenda Norton, Elysee Pyronneau, Andy Gonzalez, Peter Scherer, Sal Cuevas, Arto Lindsay
* "Vertical's Currency" - recorded 1984
Jack Bruce, Kip Hanrahan, Steve Swallow, Milton Cardona, David Murray, Arto Lindsay, Ignacio Berroa, Puntilla Orlando Rios, Peter Scherer, Frisner Augustin, Elysee Pyronneau
* "A Few Short Notes for the End Run" (EP) - recorded 1984-5Jack Bruce, Kip Hanrahan, Milton Cardona, Giovanni Hidalgo, Ignacio Berroa, Andy Gonzalez, Steve Swallow, Allen Toussaint, Clem Clemson, others
* "Conjure: Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon" - recorded 1987-8, released 1988Ishmael Reed, Allen Toussaint, Don Pullen, Leo Nocentelli, Steve Swallow, Robbie Ameen, Olu Dara, Eddie Harris, David Murray, Bobby Womack, Clare Bathe, Robert Jason, Fernando Saunders, Grayson Hughes, Milton Cardona, Hamiet Bluiett, Giovanni Hidalgo, Frisner Augustin, Ignacio Berroa, Elysee Pyronneau, Johnny Watkins, Lenny Pickett, Diahnne Abbott, Tennessee Reed, Shaunice Harris
* "Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted" - recorded 1988-9, released 1990Fernando Saunders, Andy Gonzalez, Leo Nocentelli, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jerry Gonzalez, Milton Cardona, Robbie Ameen, Willie Green, Charles Neville, John Stubblefield, Kip Hanrahan, Jack Bruce, Ignacio Berroa, Peter Scherer, Anton Fier, Lew Soloff, Mario Rivera, David Murray, Pablo Ziegler, Alfredo Triff, George Adams, Carmen Lundy
* "Tenderness" - recorded 1988-9, released 1990
Sting, Diahnne Abbott, Carmen Lundy, Lucy Penebaz, Fernando Saunders, Kip Hanrahan, Robbie Ameen, Andy Gonzalez, Giovanni Hidalgo, Leo Nocentelli, Don Pullen, Alfredo Triff, Chocolate Armanteros, Chico Freeman, Milton Cardona, Richie Flores, Ignacio Berroa, Andrew Cyrille, Marvin Smith, Cecilia Engelhardt
* "Exotica" - recorded 1992, released 1993Jack Bruce, Don Pullen, Robbie Ameen, Alfredo Triff, Leo Nocentelli, JT Lewis, David Sanchez, Ralph Peterson Jr., Anthony Carillo, Richie Flores, Milton Cardona, Lucy Penabaz, Andy Gonzalez, Mario Riviera
* "Anthology" - released 1993Two disc Compilation
* "All Roads Are Made of the Flesh" - recorded 1984 – 1994, released 1995Kip Hanrahan, Jack Bruce, Don Pullen, Charles Neville, Carmen Lundy, Allen Toussaint, Leo Nocentelli, Alfredo Triff, Robbie Ameen, JT Lewis, George Adams, Milton Cardona, Anthony Carrillo, Chocolate Armenteros, Dino Saluzzi, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Michael Reisler, Wolfgang Puchnik, Andy Gonzalez, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jerry Gonzalez, Elysee Pyronneau, Steve Swallow
* "A Thousand Nights and a Night (1 - Red Nights)" - recorded 1994-6, released 1996Don Pullen, Robby Ameen, Carmen Lundy, Charles Neville, Jack Bruce, Brandon Ross, El Negro Horacio Hernandez, Henry Threadgill, Silvana Deluigi, Mike Cain, DD Jackson, Anthony Carrillo, Fernando Saunders, Puntilla Orlando Rios, Milton Cardona, Alfredo Triff, Eric Schenkman, Andy Gonzalez, Steve Swallow, Abraham Rodriguez
* "A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 1)" - released 1998Don Pullen, Steve Swallow, Robbie Ameen, Carmen Lundy, Charles Neville, Billy Bang, Brandon Ross, El Negro Horacio Hernandez, Henry Threadgill, Mike Cain, Anthony Carrillo, Milton Cardona, Alfredo Triff, Eric Schenkman, Andy Gonzalez
* "A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 2)" - recorded 1994-8Don Pullen, DD Jackson, JT Lewis, Erica Larsen, Alfredo Triff, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Robby Ameen, Fernando Saunders, Paoli Mejias, Richie Flores , Anthony Carrillo
* "Drawn from Memory (Greatest Hits, Or Whatever... Kip on Campus)" - 2000Compilation
* "original music from the soundtrack to Piñero" - recorded 2001, released 2002Kip Hanrahan, Benjamin Bratt, Jerry Gonzalez, Andy Gonzalez, Chocolate Armanteros, Peter Scherer, Robby Ameen, Puntilla Orlando Rios, Milton Cardona, Richie Flores, Mario Rivera, Edsel Gomez, Lysandro Arias, Fernando Saunders, Yomo Toro, Alfredo Triff, Papo Vasquez, Mauricio Smith, Abraham Rodriguez, Felix Sanabria, Brian Lynch, Carlos Alberto Gonzalez
* "Conjure: Bad Mouth" - recorded 2005, released 2006
Ishmael Reed, David Murray, Kip Hanrahan, Leo Nocentelli, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Fernando Saunders, Anthony Cox, Yosvanni Terry, Pedro Martinez, Billy Bang, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Robby Ameen, Richie Flores, Dafnis Prieto
* "Beautiful Scars" - released 2007

External links

* [http://www.americanclave.com/ "American Clavé"] - Kip Hanrahan's record label
* [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:t69fs36ba3pg~T0 Kip Hanrahan article at All Music]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/9j54/ BBC review of "Beautiful Scars", 2007]