For many enthusiasts, David Murray is already a jazz legend....

For many enthusiasts, David Murray is already a jazz legend, if we look at the number of albums he has recorded, of concerts he has performed and at the number of awards with which his career to date has already been crowned (Grammy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Bird Award, Danish Jazz Bar Prize, musician of the 80’s by the Village Voice…).

However, just over a quarter of a century into his career, his music still expresses the verve and inspiration of youth, throughout a career which is prolific as much in terms of output as in terms of musical orientation (from the World Saxophone Quartet, of which he is one of the founders, to his octet, not forgetting his big band and the encounter with the Gwo Ka Masters of Guadeloupe, amongst many other groups and creations), all of it with the greatest musicians. David Murray goes down as a worthy successor for some of the biggest names in jazz, and he is now contributing to the rise of young talents such as Lafayette Gilchrist, a young pianist who has already been widely acclaimed by the critics.

"Be Bop and shut up! An impossible task for the young David, at the time of the free jazz and civil rights movements, the last adventure of the end of century jazzman. Impossible, too, for the son of Holly Roller parents, discovering the Negro spiritual style in the time of Coltrane and during Ayler's best period, not to be political right down to his tenor-playing fingertips. David Murray, now in his fifties, has 130 albums to his name and contributions to around a hundred other recordings as a guest artist behind him.

Influences
Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Jerry Garcia, World Saxophone Quartet, Coleman Hawkins, Jaco Pastorious, Association for the Advance of Creative Musicians (AACM), Sun Ra, Sonny Rollins, Bobby Bradford, Arthur Blythe, Stanley Crouch, Margaret Kohn , Cecil Taylor, Dewey Redman, Roland Kirk, Sunny Murray, Tony Braxton, Oliver Lake, Don Cherry, Ted Daniel Energy Band, Lester Bowie, Frank Lowe, Oliver Lake, Hamiet Bluiett and Julius Hemphill, Max Roach, Randy Weston, Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Cuban Son, Cuban Rumba, GwoKa music from Guadaloupe, Gospel, Soul.

Program
31 May 2010 20:00
Bath Pavillon - David Murray & The Gwo Ka Masters Bath, Bath, UNITED KINGDOM
12 Jun 2010 20:00
Fes Music Festival - David Murray & The Gwo Ka Masters feat. Archie Shepp Fès, Fès, MOROCCO
25 Jun 2010 20:00
Coliseo Theatre - David Murray Plays Nat King Cole en Espanol Buenos Aires, Buenos Air, ARGENTINA
7 Jul 2010 20:00
Kongsberg Jazz Festival - David Murray guest Kongsberg, Kongsberg, NORWAY
22 Jul 2010 20:00
Tempo Rives - David Murray & The Gwo Ka Masters Angers, Angers, FRANCE
24 Jul 2010 20:00
Junas Jazz Festival - David Murray & The Gwo Ka Masters Junas, Junas, FRANCE
28 Jul 2010 8:00
FMM Sines - David Murray plays Nat King Cole en Espanol Sines, Sines, PORTUGAL
http://www.myspace.com/davidmurraymusic


David Murray performing live at Village Vanguard in New York in 1986 with Ed Blackwell (drums), John Hicks (piano), Fred Hopkins (bass).