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Philipp John Paul Wachsmann was born August 5, 1944 in Kampala, Uganda. Influenced greatly by the music of his country he studied violin with Isolde Menges, and music at Durham University, then received scholarships to study violin and composition at Indiana University in Bloomington. He went on to study composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1968 where he also attended courses in modern music given by Henri Pousseur, and, by Pierre Boulez in Basel. He subsequently lectured at Durham University 1969/70 and then moved to London to start a performing career.
He pioneered new sounds using the violin and electronics and can be heard on over 100 LPs/CDs on different labels including ECM, and plays worldwide. He performs with most of the musicians working in modern improvisation related music. He has performed and recorded with the Stellari String Quartet, The Imaginary String Trio but also works as a soloist.
He regularly conducts his own pieces with the London Improvisation Orchestra, including Three Draft Pistons’ for violin and electro-acoustic tape. He also works with film, dance and architecture. For many years he was Director of the Electronic Music Studio at Morley College and currently teaches courses in composition at the City Literary Institute.
Avant-garde jazz/jazz fusion violinist Philipp Wachsmann gives regular workshops in improvised music at various places and which have been a starting place for many of today’s performers, founded his own group Chamberpot, and has worked extensively in the free jazz and electronica idioms.
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Bobo Stenson was born Bo Gustav Stenson on August 4, 1944 in Västerås, Sweden. Starting at the age of 8 he studied with Werner Wolf for 15 years. In 1963, he stepped up from the local scene in his hometown to begin playing frequently in Stockholm. There he accompanied a long line of visiting American players including Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Gary Burton. He worked closely with Don Cherry from the beginning of the trumpeter’s residency in Scandinavia.
The 1970s was an intensive period for Stenson, playing in many groups, amongst them the long-standing band Rena Rama with Palle Danielsson, and a trio with Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen. He would later work with Jan Garbarek.
In 1988, he joined the Charles Lloyd quartet and since 1996 has appeared at major jazz festivals with Tomasz Stańko’s septet/sextet. Pianist Bobo Stenson continues to perform to this day.
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Adam Shulman was born on August 1, 1979 in San Francisco, California. Taking what he learned studying piano during his formative years, he headed to Santa Cruz he matriculated through the University of California with a degree in classical performance. While at UCSC he studied jazz piano with Smith Dobson.
Returning home he became a staple on the city’s jazz scene, leaning towards and playing in the bop genre. Adam has been seen working with countless bay area musicians and vocalists such as Marcus Shelby, Anton Schwartz, Ed Reed and Kellye Gray among many others. Beyond the locals he has played and/or recorded with Stefon Harrism Willie Jones III, Dayna Stephens, Mark Murphy, Alan Harris, Luciana Souza, Sean Jones, Grant Stewart and John Clayton to name a few.
A consummate sideman, Adam is a composer and arranger. He has done much of the arranging for the jazz and cabaret singer Paula West and has released four albums of original music as a leader and continues to perform, arrange and compose.
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Einar “Pastor’n” Iversen was born July 27, 1930 in Mandal, Vest-Agder, Norway to a pastor. Raised in Oslo, Norway where he studied classical piano under Inge Rolf Ringnes, Artur Schnabel and Finn Mortensen. He quickly established himself on the Oslo jazz scene in 1949. He released his debut album with Rowland Greenberg’s Orchestra in 1953 and became one of the most respected Norwegian jazz musicians, and ws awarded Buddyprisen at 28 years old.
He played with Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland in 1952, on the America Boat with Anthony Ortega and the Modern Jazz Quartet. He was a regular pianist at Metropol Jazz Club, where he played with Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Griffin, Svend Asmussen and Stuff Smith, among other visiting musicians. He recorded an album with his own trio, Me and My Piano, in 1967.
Beyond busy session work Einar led his own “E. I. Trio” with bassit Tor Hauge and drummer Jon Christensen. They released Norways first jazz trio recording in 1967, Me And My Piano, containing Jazz standards. The trio would go on to release on Gemini Records Jazz På Norsk, Who Can I Turn To, Portrait Of A Norwegian Jazz Artist – Einar Iversen, and on Hazel Records, Seaview.
Pianist and composer Einar Iversen, who through more than sixty years played with everyone in Norwegian jazz, transitioned on April 3, 2019, at the age of 88.
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Three Wishes
When Nica broached the subject of three wishes with Mose Allison he had but one reply:
- “If that ever happened to me, the first would be that every individual would contain his own destructiveness. And if this wish was granted, I wouldn’t need the others.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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