Europe Jazz Network - MUSICIAN: Murray David Keith

MUSICIAN:Murray David Keith

First Name:

David Keith

Last Name:

Murray

Born date:

Feb. 19, 1955, Oakland, Ca

Town:

Paris

Country:

France

Zip Code:

75020

Instrument:

Saxes

Agency:

3d Family

Played with:

Drake Hamid - Shais Jaribu - Gilchist La Fayette - Harris Craig S. / on David Murray Quartet with Strings directed by Craig Harris, Shahid Jaribu - Drake Hamid - Kiavue' Klod - Samb Herve - Aklaff Pheeroan - Siddik Rasul - Ladrezeau Francois / on David Murray & The Gwo Ka Masters, / on David Murray Creole Project, El' Zabar Kahil / on David Murray - Kahil El' Zabar, Borghini Antonio - Drake Hamid / on Murray - Borghini - Drake, Lake Oliver Eugene - Bluiett Hamiet Ashford - Harris Craig S. - Williams Bruce - Garrison Matthew Justin - Lake Gene / on The World Saxophone Quartet Experience - Tribute To Jimi Hendrix, Lake Oliver Eugene - Bluiett Hamiet Ashford - Sylvester Jorge Delano / on World Saxophone Quartet, / on David Murray Black Saint Quartet, / on David Murray Pushkin Project, Lake Oliver Eugene - Bluiett Hamiet Ashford - Tacuma (Mcdaniel) Jamaaladeen (Rudolph) - Harris Craig S. - Pearson Lee - Kofi Tony / on World Saxophone Quartet - Political Blues

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Born: February 19, 1955, Oakland, CA.
High School: St. Mary’s College Prep, Peralta Park, CA.
College: Pomona College, Claremont, CA.

STUDIED WITH Bobby Bradford, Bob Barrett, Arthur Blythe, Charles Tyler, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Margaret Cohn, Archie Shepp, Stanley Crouch, Albert Murray, Amiri Baraka and Catherine Murray.

PERFORMED WITH Max Roach, The World Saxophone Quartet, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Hank Jones, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis, Irma Thomas, The Illusions, The Natural Four, The Notations of Soul, Jack DeJohnette, Woody Shaw, Jacky Byard, Tete Montoliu, Randy Weston, Astor Piazzola, Taj Mahal, Eddie Harris, Hector Lavoe, Ray Barretto, Potato, Jimmy Hamilton, Allen Toussaint, James ‘Blood’ Ulmer, Don Pullen, Bill Cosby, Pharoah Sanders, Roy Haynes, Eddie Blackwell, Billy Higgins, John Hicks, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, Stan Getz, Clifford Jordan, Dave Burrell, James Newton, Stanley Crouch, Butch Morris, George Arvanitas, Aki Takase, Lester Bowie and many other great musicians and artists.

AWARDS: 1988 Grammy Award for Best Performance on a Jazz Recording Blues for Coltrane; 1986 The Bird Award presented at the Northsea Jazz Festival, Den Haag, Holland - Best International Musician; 1986 Mass Council for the Arts Commission for Big-Band; 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship; 1991 Winner of Danish Jazzpar Prize

PERFORMANCES: Avery Fisher Hall, 1983; The Church of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy, 1987; Jazz Under The Sky, Youmiriland, Tokyo, Japan, 1987; Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, 1989; The Berlin Jazz Festival, The Nancy Festival, The Zurich Festival and many other Jazz Festival and Universities in Europe and the United States

Biographic info courtesy of Saudades Tourneen

DISCOGRAPHY: As a leader:; Flowers for Albert, 1976 (India Navigation); Low Class Cospirancy, 1976 (Adelphi); Penthouse Jazz, 1977 (Circle); Solomon’s Sons with James Newton, 1977 (Circle); Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, Vol.1 & 2, 1977 (India Navigation); Sur-Real Saxophone, 1978 (Horo); Conceptual Saxophone, 1978 (Cadillac); Interboogieology, 1978 (Black Saint); The London Concert, 1978 (Cadillac); 3D Family, 1978 (Hat Hut); Sweet Lovely, 1979 (Black Saint); Ming, 1980 (Black Saint); Home, 1981 (Black Saint); Murray’s Staps, 1982 (Black Saint); Morning Song, 1983 (Black Saint); Live at Sweet Basil, Vol.1, 1984 (Black Saint); Live at Sweet Basil, Vol.2, 1984 (Black Saint); Children, 1984 (Black Saint); New Life, 1985 (Black Saint); I Want To Talk About You, 1986 (Black Saint); David Murray, 1986 (DIW); The Hill, 1986 (Black Saint); The Healers with Randy Weston, 1987 (Black Saint); Deep River, 1988 (DIW); Ming’s Samba, 1988 (Portrait); As a sideman:; Synthesis: Sentiments, 1976 (Ra); World Saxophone Quartet: Point of No Return, 1977 (Moers); World Saxophone Quartet: Steppin, 1978 (Black Saint); Jack DeJohnette: Special Edition, 1979 (ECM); Live at the Moers Festival, 1979 (Moers); World Saxophone Quartet: W.S.Q., 1980 (Black Saint); World Saxophone Quartet: Revue, 1980 (Black Saint); James Blood Ulmer: Are You Glad To Be In America?, 1980 (Artists House); James Blood Ulmer: No Wave, 1980 (Moers); James Blood Ulmer: Free Lancing, 1981 (Columbia); World Saxophone Quartet: Live In Zurich, 1981 (Black Saint); Clarinet Summit: In Concert at the Public Theater, 1982 (India Navigation); Clarinet Summit: In Concert at the Public Theater, Volume 2, 1982 (India Navigation); Jack DeJohnette: Album, Album, 1984 (ECM); World Saxophone Quartet: Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1985 (Black Saint); World Saxophone Quartet: Plays Duke Ellington, 1986 (Nonesuch); World Saxophone Quartet: Dances and Ballads, 1987 (Nonesuch); Clarinet Summit: Southern Bells, 1987 (Black Saint); World Saxophone Quartet: Rhythm and Blues, 1988 (Nonesuch)