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Dave Burrell 
Burrell in 2007Background information Birth name Herman Davis Burrell Born September 10, 1940 Origin Middletown, Ohio Genres jazz Instruments piano Years active 1970s–present Associated acts Untraditional Jazz Improvisational Team
The 360 Degree Music ExperienceWebsite http://www.daveburrell.com/ Davis Burrell (born September 10, 1940) is an American jazz instrumentalist, most notably on the piano. He has worked for many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray.
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Biography
Born in Middletown, Ohio, Howard grew a fondness for jazz after meeting Herb Jeffries at a young age.[1] Howard studied music until 1960 at the University of Hawaii before transferring to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts in 1961. He moved to New York City in 1966 after graduating with a degree in musical composition. During his years there, he started a band called the Untraditional Jazz Improvisational Team with saxophonist Byard Lancaster, bassist Sirone, and drummer Bobby Kapp.
In 1968, Burrell helped co-found another band, The 360 Degree Music Experience, with Grachan Moncur and drummer Beaver Harris. They eventually released one album, In: Sanity, in 1977. Around the same time, he composed a jazz opera, entitled Windward Passages with his good friend Murray. An album based on the opera would be released in 1979.
Still touring, Burrell performs as a soloist and as a leader of a duo and African ensemble. Burrell now records for the High Two label from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His 2004 album Expansion (with bassist William Parker and drummer Andrew Cyrille) was acclaimed by NPR, Down Beat, Village Voice, JazzTimes, The Wire, and others. In 2006, Burrell released Consequences (Amulet Records), a dynamic live duet set with drummer Billy Martin and Momentum, featuring bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Guillermo E. Brown.
Discography
As leader
- 1965 High - Douglas Records
- 1968 High Won-High Two - Black Lion Records
- 1969 La Vie de Bohème - BYG Actuel
- 1969 Echo - BYG Actuel
- 1976 In: Sanity (Black Saint)
- 1978 Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk - Denon Records
- 1978 Lush Life - Denon Records
- 1979 Windward Passages - hatART
- 1979 Round Midnight - Columbia Records
- 1989 Daybreak - Gazell Records
- 1991 In Concert - Victo Records
- 1991 The Jelly Roll Joys - Gazell Records
- 1993 Windward Passages (Black Saint) - Black Saint
- 1993 Brother to Brother - Gazell Records
- 2001 Recital - CIMP
- 2004 Expansion - High Two
- 2005 Margy Pargy - Splasc(H)
- 2005 After Love - Universal International
- 2006 Consequences - Amulet
- 2006 Momentum - High Two
As sideman
With Marion Brown
- Three for Shepp (Impulse!, 1966)
With David Murray
- Hope Scope (Black Saint, 1987)
- Ballads (DIW, 1988)
- Deep River (DIW, 1988)
- Spirituals (DIW, 1988)
- Lovers (DIW, 1988)
- Tenors (DIW, 1988)
- Lucky Four (Tutu, 1989)
- Remembrances (DIW, 1990)
- Fast Life (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
- Death of a Sideman (DIW, 1991)
- Picasso (DIW, 1992)
With Odeon Pope Saxophone Choir
- Epitome (Soul Note, 1993)
With Archie Shepp
- Blasé (BYG Actuel, 1969)
- Black Gipsy (America, 1969)
- Pitchin Can (America, 1969)
- Live at the Pan-African Festival (BYG Actuel, 1969)
- Yasmina, a Black Woman (BYG Actuel, 1969)
- The Way Ahead (Impulse!, 1969)
- For Losers (Impulse!, 1971)
- Things Have Got to Change (Impulse!, 1971)
- The Cry of My People (Impulse!, 1972)
- Attica Blues (Impulse!, 1972)
- Kwanza (Impulse!, 1974)
- There's a Trumpet in My Soul (Arista Freedom, 1975)
- Montreux One (Arista Freedom, 1975)
- Montreux Two (Arista Freedom, 1975)
- A Sea of Faces (Black Saint, 1975)
- Body and Soul (Horo, 1975)
- U-Jaama (Unite) (Unitelidis, 1975)
- Jazz a Confronto 27 (Horo, 1976)
References
- ^ Chris Kelsey. "Biography of Dave Burrell". http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p6210. Retrieved 2006-12-11.
External links
Categories:- American jazz pianists
- Musicians from Ohio
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Columbia Records artists
- BYG Actuel artists
- Pew Fellows in the Arts
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