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| Born | July 17, 1955 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instrument(s) | violin |
| Labels | Tzadik, Enja, ECM |
Mark Feldman (born 1955 in Chicago) is an American jazz violinist. [1]
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| Background information | |
| Born | July 17, 1955 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instrument(s) | violin |
| Labels | Tzadik, Enja, ECM |
Mark Feldman (born 1955 in Chicago) is an American jazz violinist. [1]
Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973–1980, in Nashville, Tennessee from 1980–1986, in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. He has performed with John Zorn, John Abercrombie, The Masada String Trio, Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, and Billy Hart.
He was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and played in many bar bands in Chicago. He played on over 200 recordings in Nashville as a studio musician, was a member of the Nashville Symphony, and was a member of the touring groups of country western entertainers Loretta Lynn and Ray Price.
In 2003, he was soloist with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Guus Janssen's Violin Concerto and with the WDR Jazz Orchestra in Concerto for Violin and Jazz Orchestra by Bill Dobbins. At New York's Lincoln Center he performed in duo with pianists Paul Bley and Muhal Richard Abrams.
He has recorded with Michael Brecker, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, and Chris Potter and has played on over 100 recordings in New York City as a soloist in contemporary music and modern jazz.
Feldman has released several albums, including Music for Violin Alone (Tzadik, 1995); Book of Tells (Enja, 2000); What Exit (ECM, 2006 with British pianist John Taylor; To Fly to Steal (Intakt, 2010) with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Gerry Hemingway; and Oblivia (Tzadik, 2010) with his wife, Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier.
With the Arcado String Trio
With John Abercrombie
With Muhal Richard Abrams
With Ray Anderson
With Tim Berne
With Don Byron
With Uri Caine
With The Chromatic Persuaders
With Sylvie Courvoisier
With Marilyn Crispell
With Dave Douglas
With Yelena Eckemoff
With Billy Hart
With One Ring Zero
With Marc Ribot
With Dave Soldier
With They Might Be Giants
With Tom Varner
With Jarek Śmietana
With John Zorn
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Masada is a musical group with rotating personnel led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn since the early 1990s.
Mark Dresser is an American double bass player and composer.
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Jim Black is an American jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas. He attended Berklee College of Music.
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Bar Kokhba Sextet brings together six core members of Masada under the leadership of John Zorn. An improvisational group of New York's downtown artists, the sextet includes Cyro Baptista on percussion, Marc Ribot on guitar, Greg Cohen on bass, Joey Baron on drums, Mark Feldman on violin, and Erik Friedlander on cello. According to Tzadik, Zorn's music label, the band's music is "Sephardic exotica for young moderns".
Sylvie Courvoisier is a composer, pianist, and improviser.
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John Zorn appears on over 400 recordings as a composer or performer. This is a selection of recordings released under his name, bands he was/is part of, collaborations with other musicians, and significant albums to which he has contributed. The year indicates when the album was first released and any subsequent years if the following release included additional material.
Michael Formanek is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California, United States, and associated with the jazz scene in New York.
Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist.
Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 4: Masada Recital is the fourth album in a series of five releases celebrating the 10th anniversary of John Zorn's Masada songbook project. It features 12 Masada songs performed by Sylvie Courvoisier on piano and Mark Feldman on violin. It was released in 2004 on Zorn's Tzadik Records as part of the Radical Jewish Culture Series.
Oblivia is an album by violinist Mark Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier which was released on the Tzadik label in 2010.
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Hôtel du Nord is a studio album by American violinist Mark Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier together with drummer Gerry Hemingway and bassist Thomas Morgan. The album was released on the Intakt Records label in 2011. This is the follow-up album for their 2010 To Fly to Steal recorded by the same line-up.
The Arcado String Trio was first an American, later international jazz trio active from 1989 to 1993. The ensemble was formed by cellist Hank Roberts, bassist Mark Dresser and violinist Mark Feldman. Roberts was replaced by Ernst Reijseger. The Trio has performed not only as a chamber music ensemble but also for a project by Manfred Niehaus (1991) with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and as Double Trio together with the Trio de clarinettes of Jacques Di Donato, Louis Sclavis, and Armand Angster.
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