Another Reflection - Música

John Surman Was One Of The Very Few Saxmen In England To Find A Significant Audience In Rock During The Late '60s Playing Gigs Regularly At Venues Like The Marquee Club In London. Also A Clarinetist Of Some Renown And No Slouch On Keyboards Either The Atmospheric Sounds That Surman Creates On His Horns Has Been A Major Asset To The ECM Label Ever Since The Late '70s But Before That He Was An Extremely Prolific Artist On Deram Futura Dawn And Island Cutting Seven Solo Albums Between 1968 And 1974 On Those Mainstream Pop-Oriented Labels As Well As Recording With Morning Glory On Island. One Of England's Top Jazz Players Of The Past Several Decades Surman Is Particularly Strong On The Baritone. Surman Played In Jazz Workshops While Still In High School. He Studied At The London College Of Music And London University Institute Of Education In The Mid-'60s Played With Alexis Korner And Mike Westbrook Until The Late '60s And Recorded With The Latter Until The Mid-'70s. He Was Voted Best Soloist At The 1968 Montreux Festival While Heading His Band. Surman Worked With Graham Collier Mike Gibbs Dave Holland Chris McGregor And John McLaughlin In The '60s And Toured Europe With The Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band In 1970. Surman Toured And Recorded With Barre Phillips And Stu Martin In The Late '60s And Early '70s And Again In The Late '70s Adding Albert Mangelsdorff To The Group. They Called Themselves The Trio Then Mumps. Surman Played With Mike Osborne And Alan Skidmore In The Sax Trio SOS In The Mid-'70s. He Also Collaborated With The Carolyn Carlson Dance Company At The Paris Opera Through The Mid- And Late '70s. Surman Recorded With Stan Tracey And Karin Krog While Working With Miroslav Vitous And Azimuth. He Led The Brass Project In The Early '80s And Played In Collier's Big Band And Gil Evans' British Orchestra. Surman Toured With Evans Again In The Late '80s. He Began Recording As A Leader For Pye In The Early '70s And Did Sessions For Ogun And ECM. Surman Continued Recording In The '80s Mostly For ECM. He Worked With Terje Rypdal Jack DeJohnette Pierre Favre Bengt Hallberg Archie Shepp Warne Marsh And Red Mitchell Among Others. Surman Has Made Many Recordings For ECM Spanning From Free Form To Mood Music And He Remains One Of The Label's Most Consistently Stimulating Artists. read less