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Live Concert with John Tchicai trio
John Tchicai, Garrison Fewell, Harvey Wirth
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Slought Foundation
Free Exchange Series
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Please join us at Slought Foundation on Saturday, April 9, 2005 from 8:00-10:00pm for a live concert by the John Tchicai trio, with John Tchicai on alto/soprano/tenor saxophone, Garrison Fewell on guitar, and Harvey Wirth on drums.
Tchicai will be accompanied by native Philadelphian guitarist Garrison Fewell and drummer Harvey Wirth (Either/Orchestra). In the 70s, Fewell studied with Pat Martino and Lenny Breau. He has performed with artists such as Tal Farlow, Larry Coryell, Billy Harper, Herbie Hancock, Fred Hersch, and Kenny Wheeler. He recently recorded “Big Chief Dreaming”, for Soul Note Records, featuring John Tchicai. Fewell has been a Professor of Guitar and Ear Training at Boston’s Berklee College of Music since 1977.
Of Danish and Congolese decent, John Tchicai (b. 1936) is best known for his contribution to John Coltrane's 1965 new jazz masterpiece, "Ascension." He co-founded the New York Contemporary Five with Archie Shepp and Don Cherry as well at the New York Art Quartet with Milford Graves and Roswell Rudd. Tchicai recorded with Albert Ayler (New York Eye and Ear Control), the Jazz Composers Guild, and John Lennon (Life With the Lions). And, following three years as a central figure in New York's avant garde, Tchicai relocated to Denmark in 1966 and founded a large workshop ensemble called Cadentia Nova Danica, which he led until 1971. Shortly thereafter, he cut back on performing to concentrate on teaching. In 1977, he returned to the studio, leading a fairly steady series of recording dates into the '80s, when he switched to tenor sax and joined Pierre Dorge's New Jungle Orchestra. In 1990, Tchicai received a lifetime grant for jazz performance from the Danish Ministry of Culture; and the following year he relocated to California's Bay Area, where he and his keyboardist wife Margriet founded John Tchicai & the Archetypes and the John Tchicai Unit, which both recorded during the '90s.
Organized by
Mark Christman
Co-presented with ars nova workshop
MLA Style:
John Tchicai, et al. "Live Concert with John Tchicai trio." Slought Foundation Online Content. [09 April 2005;
Accessed 18 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11278/>.
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