Vinny Golia

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Vinny Golia
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Background information
Born (1946-03-01) March 1, 1946 (age 79)
Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Genres contemporary classical, world music, Jazz, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, bandleader, record label founder
Instrument(s) Woodwinds, saxophone, flute, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, tárogató
Years active1977–present
Labels Nine Winds, Setola di Maiale, CIMP, I.R.S. Records
Website www.vinnygolia.com

Vinny Golia (born March 1, 1946) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation. [1]

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Career

As a composer, Golia fuses the rich heritage of jazz, contemporary classical music and world music. Also a bandleader, he has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation. Golia has won numerous awards as a composer, including grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Lila Wallace Commissioning Program, the California Arts Council, Meet the Composer, Clausen Foundation of the Arts, Funds for U.S. Artists and the American Composers Forum. In 1982, he created the ongoing 50-piece Vinny Golia Large Ensemble to perform his compositions for chamber orchestra and jazz ensembles.

A multi-woodwind performer, Golia's recordings have been consistently picked by critics and readers of music journals for their yearly "ten best" lists. In 1990, he was the co-winner of the JazzTimes TDWR award for Bass Saxophone. In 1998, he ranked 1st in the Cadence Magazine Writers & Readers Poll and has continually placed in the Down Beat Critics Poll for Baritone & Soprano Saxophone.

In 1999, he won the LA Weekly award for "Best Jazz Musician". Jazziz magazine has also named him as one of the 100 people who have influenced the course of jazz in the 21st century. In 2006, the Jazz Journalists Association honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013, he won the Down Beat Critics Poll in the "New Star" category for baritone saxophone.

Golia has been a featured performer with Anthony Braxton, Henry Grimes, John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Joëlle Léandre, Wadada Leo Smith, Horace Tapscott, John Zorn, Tim Berne, Bertram Turetzky, George E. Lewis, Barre Phillips, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Patti Smith, Harry Gibson, Eugene Chadbourne, Kevin Ayers, Peter Kowald, John Bergamo, George Gruntz, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Lydia Lunch, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Golia founded the jazz record label Nine Winds in 1977. [2] [3]

Ensembles

Golia has a formed a number of ensembles that showcase both his style of composition and improvisation. These groups range from his Large Ensemble to a variety of mixed quintets, saxophone quartets, duos, sextets and arrangements for jazz and classical orchestras. [4] Most recently, Golia has performed and toured with his sextet which features some of the new voices in the Los Angeles free-improv scene. [5]

The group, composed of Gavin Templeton (alto sax), Daniel Rosenboom (trumpet), Alexander Noice (guitar), Andrew Lessman (drums) and Jon Armstrong (bass), has given performances at many of the premiere U.S. new music venues and festivals including Angel City Jazz Festival at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, [6] the Outsound New Music Summit in San Francisco, [7] and The Stone in New York. [8]

Discography

With Anthony Braxton

With Alex Cline

With George Gruntz

With William Parker

With Samo Salamon & Ra Kalam Bob Moses Orchestra

With CRAG

With SeFa LoCo

With Wadada Leo Smith

With RACCA trio

References

  1. ↑ Simon, Adams. Barry Kernfeld (ed.). "Golia, Vinny". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ Woodard, Josef (January 28, 2000). "Making It Big". LA Times . Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ "History". Nine Winds. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Discography". Nine Winds. Archived from the original on March 26, 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Acquaro, Paul (June 14, 2012). "Vinny Golia Sextet - Abstractions and Retrocausalities". Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  6. ↑ Barton, Chris (October 4, 2010). "Jazz Review: Angels City Jazz Festival at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre". LA Times. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Fire & Energy Music @ The 11th Annual Outsound New Music Summit". San Francisco Chronicle . July 21, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Vinny Golia Sextet + Dan Rosenboom Septet". Time Out NY. April 13, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Vinny Golia | Album Discography | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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