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American drummer and composer
Gerry Hemingway
Born (1955-03-23 ) March 23, 1955 (age 69)
New Haven , Connecticut, U.S.
[1] Genres
Avant-garde jazz ,
Free jazz ,
Free improvisation Occupation(s) Musician, composer, record label owner Instrument(s) Drums, percussion, vibraphone, harmonica, voice, vocals, tape, sampler, electronics, live electronics Years active 1970s–present Labels Auricle Website
gerryhemingway .com
Musical artist
Gerry Hemingway (born March 23, 1955)
[1] is an American drummer and composer.
[2]
Hemingway was a member of the
Anthony Braxton quartet from 1983 to 1994.
[3] 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 .
[1]
Hemingway received a
Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in music composition in 2000,
[4] and was a student of
Alan Dawson . He is a graduate of
Foote School in New Haven. He has recorded on over one hundred albums for the labels
Clean Feed ,
Enja ,
hatArt ,
Palmetto , Random Acoustics, and
Tzadik . He owns his own label, Auricle.
Discography
As leader
1979 Kwambe Auricle
1982 Solo Works (solo) Auricle
1983–94 Electro-Acoustic Solo Works (solo) Random Acoustics 1996
1984–95 Electro-Acoustic Solo Works (solo) Random Acoustics 1996
1987 Outer Bridge Crossing (quintet) Sound Aspects
1988 Tub Works (solo) Sound Aspects
1991 Down to the Wire (quartet) hatArt
1991 View from Points West (trio w G Graewe, E Reijseger)
Music & Arts
1991 Special Detail (quintet)
hatArt
1991-94 Slamadam (quintet) Random Acoustics 1995
1993 Demon Chaser (quintet) hatArt,
1994 Saturn Cycle (trio w G Graewe, E Reijseger) Music & Arts
1995 The Marmalade King (quintet) hatArt
1996 Perfect World (quintet) Random Acoustics
1998 Johnny's Corner Song (quartet) Auricle
1999 Waltzes, Two–Steps & other Matters of the Heart (quintet) GM
1999 Chamber Works
Tzadik
2002 Songs Between the Lines
2002 Double Blues Crossing (quintet) Between the Lines
2003 Devil's Paradise (quartet)
Clean Feed
2005 The Whimbler (quartet) Clean Feed
2011 Riptide (quintet) Clean Feed
As co-leader
With Bass-Drum-Bone (Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Ray Anderson)
1978 Oahspe (Auricle)
1980 Right Down Your Alley (Black Saint) (under Ray Anderson name)
1986 You Be (Minor Music)
1986-96 Cooked To Perfection (Auricle, 1999)
1989 Wooferlo (Soul Note)
1997 March Of Dimes (Data)
1997 Hence The Reason (Enja)
2005 The Line Up (
Clean Feed Records )
2009 The Other Parade (
Clean Feed Records , 2011)
2016 The Long Road (Auricle)
With WHO trio (Michel Wintsch, Gerry Hemingway, Bänz Oester)
As sideman
With
Ralph Alessi
It's Always Now (
ECM , 2023)
With
Anthony Braxton
Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983 (
Black Saint , 1983)
Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 (Black Saint, 1984)
Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance) (Sound Aspects, 1984 [1990])
Quartet (London) 1985 (
Leo , 1985 [1988])
Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 (Leo, 1985 [1991])
Quartet (Coventry) 1985 (Leo, 1985)
Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 (Black Saint, 1986)
Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988 (Victo, 1989 [1992])
Willisau (Quartet) 1991 (hatArt, 1992)
(Victoriaville) 1992 (Victo, 1993)
Twelve Compositions (
Music & Arts , 1993)
Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 (hatART, 1997)
Old Dogs (
Mode , 2007)
With
Samuel Blaser
A Mirror to Machaut (Blaser Music, 2013)
Fourth Landscape (Nuscope, 2013)
Oostum (
NoBusiness Records , 2018)
Early in the Mornin (OutNote Records, 2018)
Moods (Blaser Music, 2021)
With
Marilyn Crispell
The Kitchen Concert (Leo, 1991)
Circles (Les Disques Victo, 1991)
Santuerio (Leo, 1993)
Highlights from the Summer of 1992 American Tour (Music & Arts, 1993)
Cascades (Music & Arts, 1996)
MGM Trio (Ramboy, 1996) with
Michael Moore
Affinities (Intakt, 2011)
Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton (Tzadik, 2012)
Table of Changes (Intakt, 2015)
With
Maybe Monday
With
Reggie Workman
References
External links
International National Artists Other