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Rüdiger Carl was born on April 26, 1944 in Goldap, Poland ( formerly East Prussia) and has been involved in improvised music since 1968. He recorded his first record in 1972 and then began playing with a wide range of musicians including Arjen Gorter, Makaya Ntshoko, Louis Moholo, Maarten van Regteren Altena, Tristan Honsinger, Johnny Dyani and Han Bennink.
He maintains a long-standing partnership with Irene Schweizer that began in 1973 and continues to the present day. For a three year period, from 1973 to 1976 Carl was a member of Globe Unity Orchestra. He started giving solo performances in 1977 and the following year started two other long-term professional partnerships, with Sven-Åke Johansson and Hans Reichel.
Rüdiger’s most striking change in improvised music came when he gave up the saxophone and began performing with the accordion in duets with Hans Reichel. Though he continued to play the two instruments virtually side-by-side, adding clarinet to his arsenal, recorded Vorn which featured a version of the McCartney tune Those Were The Days. The COWWS Quintet was formed, continuing his musical relationship with Schweizer along with Philipp Wachsmann, Jay Oliver and Stephen Wittwer.
In addition to the COWWS, he performs with the Canvas Trio, in duos with Mayo Thompson of the Red Crayolas and Joëlle Léandre. During the Eighties he organized concerts of Musik im Portikus and beginning in 1994 has led the F.I.M. Orchester in Frankfurt/M.
Accordionist Rüdiger Carl is also an arranger and composer and continues to record and perform.
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Susanna Lindeborg was born on April 18, 1952 in Gothenburg, Sweden and began classical training on piano at a young age which turned into work with jazz and improvisation, showing to be her right element. She started her professional musical career in the middle of the Seventies.
Susanna went on to mix acoustic and electronic instruments, which has been known most of all through the group Mwendo Dawa, which she leads and tours together with saxophone player Ove Johansson. Writing her own music for the group, she also toured with the female jazz group Salamander during the beginning of the 1980s. Both Mwendo Dawa and Salamander attracted a lot of attention on the European continent and in the United States.
She currently tours with her Lindeborg/Johansson Duo and Natural Artefacts. Her performances are both in the world of improvisation music, the world of electro~acoustic music, and solo improvisations. With the release of her first solo compact disc in 1989, she parlayed the acceptance into some work in Germany with some radio and TV recordings. Avant~garde pianist Susanna Lindeborg continues to push the boundaries of her music.
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Gerry Hemingway was born March 23, 1955 in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Foote School in New Haven and studied under Alan Dawson. In 2000 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in music composition.
He was a member of the Anthony Braxton quartet from 1983 to 1994. He has also performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George E. Lewis, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don Byron, Cecil Taylor, and Cuong Vu.
He has recorded on over one hundred albums for the labels Clean Feed, Enja, hatArt, Palmetto, Random Acoustics, and Tzadik. Avant~garde drummer and composer Gerry Hemingway, who owns his own record label Auricle,continues to pursue his musical endeavors.
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George Sylvester “Red“ Callender was born on March 6, 1916 in Haynesville, Virginia. He made his recording debut at 19 with Louis Armstrong’s band. In the early 1940s, he played in the Lester and Lee Young band, and then formed his own trio. Through the 1940s, he recorded with Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, Charlie Parker, Wardell Gray, Dexter Gordon, Uffe Baadh and many others.
After a period spent leading a trio in Hawaii, Callender returned to the mainland, settling in Los Angeles, California. He became one of the first black musicians to work regularly in the commercial studios, including backing singer Linda Hayes on two singles. He would later turn down offers to work with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars.
On his 1957 Crown LP Speaks Low, Callender was one of the earliest modern jazz tuba soloists. Keeping busy up until his death, some of the highlights of the bassist’s later career include recording with Art Tatum and Jo Jones, playing with Charles Mingus at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival, working with James Newton’s avant-garde woodwind quintet on tuba, and performing as a regular member of the Cheatham’s Sweet Baby Blues Band.
He reached the top of the British pop charts as a member of B. Bumble and the Stingers. In 1964, he was introduced and highlighted in performance with entertainer Danny Kaye on his television variety show, in a duet on the George and Ira Gershwin song, Slap That Bass.
He worked with an array of pop, rock and vocal acts as a member of The Wrecking Crew, a group of first-call session musicians in Los Angeles, California. Double bassist Red Callender, who also plays tuba, transitioned from thyroid cancer at his home in Saugus, California on March 8, 1992.
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Rahn Burton was born February 10, 1934 in Louisville, Kentucky. He began taking piano lessons at age 13, and worked locally in Louisville before playing his first gigs with Roland Kirk. He toured with Kirk from 1953 to 1959 and recorded with him into the early 1960s, contributing the composition Jack the Ripper to the 1960 release Introducing Roland Kirk.
Moving on to play local gigs in New York City and Syracuse, New York for a short time in the early 1960s, he returned to local playing in Louisville. During 1964-65 he played organ in George Adams’s touring ensemble, and played briefly with Sirone around the same time.
1967 saw Burton re-joining Roland Kirk’s group, playing with him at the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival and on several recordings through 1973. He also founded his own ensemble, African American Connection, which included Roland Alexander, Bob Cunningham, Ricky Ford, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson.
He recorded extensively as a sideman in the 1970s and 1980s with George Adams and Hannibal Peterson, Carlos Garnett, Beaver Harris, Jemeel Moondoc, Charlie Rouse, Leon Thomas and Stanley Turrentine. His associations in the 1990s included work in Austria with Nicholas Simion and a trio recording in 1992 with Walter Booker and Jimmy Cobb.
Pianist Rahn Burton, who was also known as Ron Burton or William Burton, transitioned on January 25, 2013 in Manhattan, New York.
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