Joe Gallivan

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Joe Gallivan (born August 9, 1937, Rochester, New York) [1] is an American jazz and avant-garde musician. He plays drums, percussion and synthesizer.

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Career

Gallivan's first professional experience came at the age of 15 while in Miami. [1] He played early on with Eduardo Chavez, Art Mooney and Charlie Spivak, as well as with the Modern Jazz Orchestra. He attended the University of Miami and then moved to New York in 1961, where he had a big band with Donald Byrd that featured Eric Dolphy, Pepper Adams, Don Ellis, Johnny Coles, Julius Watkins, and Duke Pearson. During the next year, he returned to Miami, conducted for the TV show Music U.S.A., and led the band A Train of Thought. In the 1960s he became interested in electronic music and musique concrète and began meeting with Vladimir Ussachevsky. He helped test the drum system developed by Robert Moog which Gallivan used on the 1974 Gil Evans album There Comes a Time.

Gallivan worked in the 1970s with saxophonist Charles Austin and three years with Larry Young in their band Love Cry Want. ("Love Cry Want" is also the title of the group's 1972 recording that was released in 1997 by Gallivan's label Newjazz). Gallivan moved to Europe in 1976. In London he was considered a replacement for Robert Wyatt in the band Soft Machine but did not end up joining the group, instead collaborating with its former members Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper. They formed a quartet with Keith Tippett for the 1976–77 albums Cruel but Fair and Mercy Dash. While living in Frankfurt in the 1980s, Gallivan worked with Albert Mangelsdorff, Heinz Sauer, and Christoph Lauer.

In 1989 Gallivan returned to the U.S., living in Hawaii. In London he recorded the album Innocence with Elton Dean and Evan Parker. He performed at Ronnie Scott's Club in London with Brian Cuomo on piano and Jackie Ryan on vocals. In 1998, Gallivan recorded Electric/Electronic/Electric in the trio Powerfield with keyboardist Pat Thomas and guitarist Gary Smith and Gallivan/Smith with Gary Smith. During the same year he recorded Des del silenci in Barcelona with the Ektal Ensemble, including trumpeter Benet Palet, percussionist Marti Perramon, and Gnawan quartet Nas Marrakech featuring vocalist Abdel-Jahlil Koddsi. In 2000 he performed at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York City in his band the Rainforest Initiative with Dean, Parker, Charles Austin, John McMinn, Marcio Mattos, Lei'ohu Ryder, and Mahalani Po'epo'e. This performance was recorded and broadcast on the Black Entertainment Network.

He recorded the live album Vienna with bassist Paul Rogers and Indian violinist Anupriya Deotale and LA with Benn Clatworthy. In 2011 Gallivan was the sole surviving member of the 1970s band Love Cry Want. He recorded a new Love Cry Want album with guitarist Tom McNalley and bassist Michelle Webb.

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References

  1. 1 2 Kennedy, Gary (2002). "Gallivan, Joe". In Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 7. ISBN   1561592846.