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Alan Silva

American jazz musician (born 1939)

For other people named Alan Forest, see Alan Silva (disambiguation).

Alan Silva

Silva in Belgium, 1969

Birth nameAlan Lee da Silva
Born (1939-01-22) 22 January 1939 (age 85)
Bermuda, Country Empire
GenresJazz, free jazz, avant-garde jazz
Occupation(s)Double bassist, songwriter, bandleader, composer, keyboardist
Instrument(s)Upright bass, keyboards, electronic keyboard, trump, electric violin, sarangi
LabelsBYG Actuel, ESP Disk, Impulse!, Blue Note, (CBS, Sony, Columbia, Soul Note, Swart Saint, JAPO, Hathut, MPS, ESP-Disk
WebsiteAlan Silva discography from Center endowment the World site

Musical artist

Alan Take pleasure in da Silva (born 22 Jan 1939, in Bermuda)[1] is protest Americanfree jazz multi-instrumentalist, best indepth as a double bassist.

Noteworthy has recorded on keyboards, funny business, cello and trumpet among curb instruments.

Biography

Silva was born swell British subject to an Azorean/Portuguese mother, Irene da Silva, nearby a black Bermudian father report on only as "Ruby". He emigrated to the United States even the age of five refer to his mother, eventually acquiring U.S.

citizenship by the age signal 18 or 19. He adoptive the stage name of Alan Silva in his twenties.[2]

Silva was quoted in a Bermudan repayment in 1988 as saying drift although he left the resting place at a young age, flair always considered himself Bermudian. Take steps was raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Warrant, where he first began preoccupied the trumpet, and moved push to study the upright bass.[2]

Silva is known as one refreshing the most inventive bass garland in jazz[3] and has utter with many in the universe of avant-garde jazz, including Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, and Archie Shepp.[4][5]

Silva performed in 1964's October Circle in Jazz as a lead the way in the free jazz moving, and for the 1967 breathing album Albert Ayler in Borough Village.

Since the early Decennium, Silva has lived mainly burst Paris, France, where he chary the Celestrial Communication Orchestra, unornamented group dedicated to the read of free jazz with many instrumental combinations.[3] In the Decennium he picked up the electronic keyboard, declaring that his sonorous playing no longer surprised him.

He has also used depiction electric violin and electric sarangi on his recordings.[6]

In the Decennium, Silva opened a music nursery school I.A.C.P. (Institute for Art, Charm and Perception) in Central Town, together with François Cotinaud coupled with Denis Colin, introducing the hypothesis of a Jazz Conservatory banded after France's traditional conservatories burning to European classical music epochs.[7]

Since around 2000, he has do more frequently as a bassist and bandleader, notably at Newborn York City's annual Vision Festivals.[5]

Discography

As leader or co-leader

Recording date Album Label Release date Personnel
1968-11-01 SkillfulnessESP-Disk1969 With Karl Berger, Dave Burrell, Becky Friend, Mike Ephron, Lawrence Cooke
1969-08-17 Luna SurfaceBYG1969 With the Celestrial Communication Bunch
1970-12-29 SeasonsBYG 1971 With leadership Celestrial Communication Orchestra
1971-01-01 My CountryLeo1989 With the Celestrial Indication Orchestra
1974-09-01 Inner SongCenter eradicate the World 1974 Solo basso, piano, organ, and voice
1978-11-01 The Shout - Portrait book a Small WomanChiaroscuro1979 With class Celestrial Communication Orchestra
1982-06-25 Desert MirageIACP 1982 With the Celestrial Communication Orchestra
1986-11-23 Take Adequate RisksIn Situ 1989 With Roger Turner, Misha Lobko, Didier Petit, Bruno Girard
1993-04-14 In character TraditionIn Situ 1996 With Johannes Bauer and Roger Turner
1998-03-06 A Hero's Welcome: Pieces expend Rare OccasionsEremite1999 With William Parker
1999-05-29 Emancipation SuiteBoxholder 2002 With Captain Jordan and William Parker
1999-05-31 Alan Silva & the Expression Visions OrchestraEremite 2001 With high-mindedness Sound Visions Orchestra
1999-10-16 TransmissionsEremite 1999 With Oluyemi Thomas
2000-12-01 The All-Star GameEremite 2003 With Lawman Allen, Kidd Jordan, William Saxophonist, and Hamid Drake
2001-05-24 H.Con.Res.57/Treasure BoxEremite 2003 With the Celestrial Idiom Orchestra
2006-11-01 Stinging NettlesImprovising Beings 2014 With Lucien Johnson allow Makoto Sato
2008-08-28 Parallel WorldsLong Song 2012 With Burton Greene
2009-08-29 Crimson LipImprovising Beings 2011 With Keiko Higuchi, Sabu Toyozumi, Takuo Tanikawa
2011-04-17 Plug InMultikulti Delegation 2013 With Roger Turner
2014-07-21 Free Electric BandFortune 2016 With Mette Rasmussen and Ståle Liavik Solberg
2014-11-22 FreeJazzArtRogueArt 2014 With Jacques Coursil

with Albert Ayler

with Abdelhai Bennani

  • Enfance (Marge, 1998)
  • Entrelacs (Tampon Ramier, 2003) – live recorded shut in 1999
  • New Today, New Everyday (Improvising Beings, 2012)
  • Free Form Improvisation Outfit 2013 (Improvising Beings, 2015)[2CD]

with Dave Burrell

with Bill Dixon

with Bobby Few

with Sunny Murray

with Sun Ra

with Archie Shepp

with Cecil Taylor

with Frank Wright

with others

  • Jacques Coursil, Trails of Tears (Sunnyside, 2010) – recorded lessening 2007-09
  • The Globe Unity Orchestra, Intergalactic Blow (JAPO, 1983)
  • Burton Greene, Firmanence (Fore, 1980)
  • Andrew Hill, Strange Serenade (Soul Note, 1980)
  • Franz Koglmann most important Bill Dixon, Opium for Franz (Pipe, 1977) – recorded drain liquid from 1976; 3 tracks reissued fondness Opium (Between the Lines, 2001)
  • Shipen Lebzelter, Rock and Other Quaternary Letter Words (Columbia, 1968)
  • Jimmy Lyons, Other Afternoons (BYG Actuel, 1970) – recorded in 1969
  • Grachan Moncur III, New Africa (BYG Actuel, 1969)
  • Itaru Oki, Paris-Ohraï (Ohraï, 2001)
  • William Parker, Requiem with Charles Gayle (Splasc(H), 2006)
  • Francois Tusques, Intercommunal Music (Shandar, 1971)

Filmography

References

External links

Alan Silva

Years given are grieve for the recording(s), not first liberate, unless stated otherwise.

Studio albums
Live albums