ZUM TOD DES US-AMERIKANISCHEN JAZZ-GITARRISTEN JOHN ABERCROMBIE
23.08.2017 Der am 16. Dezember 1944 in Port Chester (New York) geborene US-amerikanische Jazz-Gitarrist John Abercrombie (Bild) ist am 22. August 2017 in Coftland (New York) gestorben.
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RIP, John Abercrombie
Guitarist John Abercrombie, a supremely eloquent and lyrical player whose career over the last four decades included seminal jazz fusion music and eminently refined ECM albums alike, died Tuesday of heart failure. He was 72.
Peter Hum
http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/jazzblog/rip-john-abercrombie
Abercrombie was an influential guitar stylist who, after getting his start as a session musician and sideman with artists like Gato Barbieri, Billy Cobham, and Gil Evans, came into prominence as a bandleader in the 1970s through his recordings on the ECM label. His debut album, Timeless, is particularly renowned, featuring synth/organist Jan Hammer (of Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miami Vice soundtrack fame) and Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett collaborator Jack DeJohnette on drums.
Winston Cook-Wilson
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7941015/john-abercrombie-dead-jazz-guitarist-innovator
An alum of the Berklee College of Music, Abercrombie became hugely influential within the jazz fusion genre through his recordings for the ECM label.
Albums like 1975's Timeless - which Abercrombie recorded with Jack DeJohnette and keyboardist Jan Hammer - would come to define the label's groundbreaking sound.
Aside from his dozens of recordings as a band leader, Abercrombie was for decades also a frequent member of the highly regarded trio Gateway, along with DeJohnette and bassist Dave Holland.
Jackson Maxwell
http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/john-abercrombie-renowned-jazz-guitarist-dead-72/31637
Ein kommunikativer Eigenbrötler
Er zählte zu den wegweisenden Jazzgitarristen. Sein Weg hatte von Fusion-Projekten in die kammermusikalische Einkehr geführt.
Stefan Hentz
Abercrombie sei es immer um ein harmonisches und flexibles Spiel mit anderen Musikern gegangen, sagte Pianist Marc Copland, der über fast 50 Jahre immer wieder mit Abercrombie gespielt hatte, dem «Ottawa Citizen». «Wie seine Musik suchte John nie aggressiv das Rampenlicht, er versuchte einfach, die bestmögliche Musik zu machen», sagte Copland.
sda-ats
https://www.derbund.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/jazzgitarrist-john-abercrombie-gestorben/story/26034598
Er spielte mit sanfter Gewalt
Er formte Bands mit den namhaftesten Kollegen, war in vielen Genres zuhause und prägte seinen eigenen, elegant-fließenden Stil.
Wolfgang Sandner
Mort du guitariste John Abercrombie
Dans les années 1980, comme d'autres
guitaristes, il avait expérimenté le jeu sur une guitare-synthétiseur, avant de
revenir à des instruments électriques
plus traditionnels. A sa technique fluide, au délié des notes, dans la
contruction de savantes parties solistes, il ajoutait une maîtrise de quelques
effets sonores, principalement de réverbération et de vibrato.
Sylvain Siclier
Audios / Videos:
John Abercrombie Quartet - Flipside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BnKAFczzfA
Billy Cobham's Spectrum (Kongsberg, 1974) (c) NRK
Billy COBHAM (dr), John ABERCROMBIE (git), Michael BRECKER (s), Randy BRECKER (t), Glenn FERRIS (trb), Alex BLAKE (b), Milchu LEVIEV (kbd).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TaaCkjoITQ
John Abercrombie - Timeless (1975) full album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDt5aij2dwY
Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie & Jan Garbarek - Live in Norway 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHIrTiDNZC0
Abercrombie, Erskine, Mintzer, Pattitucci: Bass Desires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asdf7En6Joo
Peter Erskine - John Abercrombie - Marc Johnson: Furs On Ice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtRWebBlYKU
John Abercrombie Quartet. Okt 2013. hd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOTEPUStucI
Conversations with John Abercrombie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGJL6zmXiM
Mehr:
https://www.facebook.com/John-Abercrombie-200618116652971/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/258942
http://www.trovar.com/ECM/ECM.php?artist=abercrombie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abercrombie_(guitarist)