Dave Burrell
Dave Burrell (born September 10, 1940) is an American jazz pianist. He has played with many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray.
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Birth name | Herman Davis Burrell |
Born | Middletown, Ohio, U.S. | September 10, 1940
Genres | Jazz |
Instruments | Piano |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Associated acts | Untraditional Jazz Improvisational Team, The 360 Degree Music Experience |
Website | daveburrell.com |
Biography
Born in Middletown, Ohio, Burrell grew fond of jazz at a young age after meeting Herb Jeffries.[1] Burrell studied music at the University of Hawaii before transferring to Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1961. He worked in Boston and then settled on the Lower East Side in New York City in 1965 after graduating with a degree in musical composition. He started the Untraditional Jazz Improvisational Team with saxophonist Byard Lancaster, Sirone, and Bobby Kapp.
In 1965 he joined the groups of saxophonists Pharoah Sanders (Tauhid), Marion Brown (Juba-Lee), and Archie Shepp (Three for Shepp), resulting in numerous recordings, among them For Losers, Kwanza, Live at the Pan-African Festival, Yasmina, Blase, Black Gypsy, Things Have Got to Change, Attica Blues, The Cry of My People, There Is a Trumpet in My Soul, Montreux One, and Montreux Two. In 1968, Burrell co-founded The 360 Degree Music Experience with Grachan Moncur and Beaver Harris. They released From Ragtime to No Time in 1975, and In: Sanity in 1977.
Burrell's first album as a leader was High Won-High Two (1968), produced by Alan Douglas. Echo and La Vie de Bohème were recorded for BYG Actuel in Paris in 1969. He recorded Round Midnight for Nippon Columbia.
In 1978 he composed a jazz opera entitled Windward Passages, in collaboration with Swedish poet and lyricist Monika Larsson, with an album of the same name, based on the opera, released in 1979 on Hathut in Switzerland. Their touring and recording collaborations resulted in Daybreak (1989), Brother to Brother (Gazell, 1992), In Concert (Victo, 1992), and Windward Passages (Black Saint, 1993). Burrell appears on Murray's DIW albums Lovers, Deep River, Ballads, Spirituals, Tenors, Remembrances, and Picasso, recorded between 1988 and 1993.
Burrell tours and performs as a soloist and as a leader of a duo, trio, and larger ensembles. He recorded for the High Two label from Philadelphia. 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. Splasc Records in Italy released a studio solo piano recording, Margy Pargy in 2005. In 2006, Burrell released Consequences (Amulet), a live duet set with drummer Billy Martin, and Momentum (High Two), featuring bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Guillermo E. Brown. RAI Trade, Italy, did a live recording of Burrell's and Larsson's collaborations, Dave Burrell Plays His Songs, featuring singer Leena Conquest, that was released in 2010.
Discography
As leader
Year recorded | Title | Label | Personnel/Notes |
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1965? | High | Douglas | |
1968 | High Won-High Two | Black Lion | With Norris Sirone Jones (bass), Bobby Kapp and Sunny Murray (drums), Pharoah Sanders (tambourine) |
1969? | La Vie de Bohème | BYG Actuel | With Eleanor Burrell (vocals), Ric Colbeck (piano, trumpet, harp), Claude Delcloo (chimes, drums, tympani), Beb Guérin (bass), Grachan Moncur III (trombone, chimes), Kenneth Terroade (flute, tenor sax) |
1969 | Echo | BYG Actuel | With Arthur Jones (alto sax), Grachan Moncur III (trombone), Sunny Murray (bass, drums), Archie Shepp (tenor sax), Alan Silva (bass), Clifford Thornton (cornet) |
1970 | After Love | America | With Bertrand Gauthier (drums), Michel Gladieux (double bass), Ron Miller (mandolin, double bass), Roscoe Mitchell (reeds), Don Moye (drums), Alan Silva (violin, cello, electric cello) |
1976 | In: Sanity | Black Saint | As The 360 Degree Music Experience; with Beaver Harris (drums), Keith Marks (flute), Azar Lawrence (tenor sax), Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax, alto clarinet, flute), Cecil McBee (bass), Sunil Garg (sitar), Titos Sompa (conga); Steel Ensemble added on one track |
1977? | Black Spring | Marge | |
1978? | Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk | Denon | With Takashi Mizuhashi (bass) |
1978? | Lush Life | Denon | With Takashi Mizuhashi (bass) |
1979 | Windward Passages | Hathut | Solo piano; in concert |
1979? | Round Midnight | Nippon Columbia | |
1989 | Daybreak | Gazell | With David Murray (bass clarinet, tenor sax) |
1990 | The Jelly Roll Joys | Gazell | Solo piano |
1991 | In Concert | Victo | Duo, with David Murray (tenor sax); in concert |
1993 | Windward Passages (Black Saint) | Black Saint | With David Murray (bass clarinet, tenor sax); Monika Larsson (vocals) added on one track |
1993 | Brother to Brother | Gazell | With David Murray (bass clarinet, tenor sax) |
1993? | Changes & Changes | CIMP | |
Live at Caramoor | Sonoris | Solo piano; in concert | |
2000 | Recital | CIMP | With Tyrone Brown (bass) |
2005? | Margy Pargy | Splasc(H) | Solo piano |
2005 | Consequences | Amulet | Duo, with Billy Martin (percussion); in concert |
2005 | Momentum | High Two | Trio, with Michael Formanek (bass), Guillermo E. Brown (drums) |
2008? | Esquisse for a Walk | with Daniel Huck | |
2010? | Plays His Songs | RAI Trade | with Leena Conquest (vocals) |
2013? | Darlingtonia | Jazzwerkstatt | with Silke Eberhard |
2014? | Turning Point | NoBusiness |
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)
- Death of a Sideman (DIW, 1991)
- Picasso (DIW, 1992)
With William Parker
- I Plan to Stay a Believer (AUM Fidelity, 2010)
- Essence of Ellington (Centering, 2012)
With Odeon Pope Saxophone Choir
- Epitome (Soul Note, 1993)
With Archie Shepp
- The Way Ahead (Impulse!, 1968)
- 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)
- 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)
- Lover Man (Timeless, 1989)
With Sonny Sharrock
- Black Woman (Vortex, 1969)
With Clifford Thornton
- Ketchaoua (BYG Actuel, 1967)
References
- Chris Kelsey. "Biography of Dave Burrell". Retrieved 2006-12-11.