Barre Phillips

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Barre Phillips
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Barre Phillips, Moers Festival 2008
Background information
Born (1934-10-27) October 27, 1934 (age 90)
San Francisco, California, U.S. [1]
Genres Jazz
OccupationMusician
Instrument Double bass
Years active1960–present
Website barrephillips.com

Barre Phillips (born October 27, 1934) is an American jazz bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he moved to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. [2] Since 1972, he has been based in southern France where, in 2014, he founded the European Improvisation Center.

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He studied briefly in 1959 with S. Charles Siani, Assistant Principal Bassist with the San Francisco Symphony. During the 1960s, he recorded with (among others) Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Giuffre, Archie Shepp, Peter Nero, Attila Zoller, Lee Konitz and Marion Brown. [2]

Phillips' 1968 recording of solo bass improvisations, issued as Journal Violone in the US, Unaccompanied Barre in England, and Basse Barre in France on Futura Records, is generally credited as the first solo bass record. [1] A 1971 record with Dave Holland, Music from Two Basses , was probably the first record of improvised double bass duets. [3]

In the 1970s, he was a member of the well-regarded and influential group The Trio, with saxophonist John Surman and drummer Stu Martin. [2] In the 1980s and 1990s, he played regularly with the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, led by fellow bassist Barry Guy. He worked on soundtracks of the motion pictures Merry-Go-Round (1981), Naked Lunch (1991, together with Ornette Coleman) and Alles was baumelt, bringt Glück! (2013). [4]

He has also worked with (among many others) bassists Peter Kowald and Joëlle Léandre, guitarist Derek Bailey, clarinetists Theo Jörgensmann, Vinny Golia, and Aurélien Besnard, saxophonists Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker and Joe Maneri, and pianists Bob James and Paul Bley.

Barre is the father of the rock guitarist, Jay Crawford from the band Bomb; of the bassist Dave Phillips; and of singer Claudia Phillips, who was a one-hit wonder in France in 1987 with "Quel souci La Boétie".

Discography

As leader

As sideman

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References

  1. 1 2 Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 320. ISBN   0-85112-580-8.
  2. 1 2 3 Chadbourne, Eugene. "Barre Phillips: Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 2010-11-28.
  3. ↑ Henkin, Andrey (2004-05-12). "Barre Phillips". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
  4. ↑ "EUPHORIUM Films. Alles was baumelt, bringt Glück!". Euphorium.de. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Barre Phillips | Album Discography". AllMusic . Retrieved 6 December 2016.
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