The A Band
Also known as the A Band. Be there or be square, as they used to say.
Also known as the A Band. Be there or be square, as they used to say.
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964 in Warwick, Rhode Island) is an American jazz composer/arranger and saxophone and clarinet player. He grew up in Massachusetts, graduating from Natick High School. He performed and led groups while in high school and at McGill University in Montreal which he attended from 1982 to 1986. He is mostly self-taught as a musician, but studied intermittently with George Garzone in the early 1980s.
Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Argentina at numerous festivals, in clubs, outdoors, in living rooms, in a bank, and at least once on a vibrating floor. He has collaborated with a number of musicians throughout the globe performing experimental music, free jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process - both solo, and as nmperign (with bhob rainey) and Heathen Shame (with Kate Village and Wayne Rogers). He constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of 'music'.
Evelyn Glennie, born in 1965 in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a virtuoso percussionist. She is the first person in musical history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a percussion solo performer. As one of the most eclectic and innovative musicians on the scene today she is constantly redefining the goals and expectations of percussion, and creating performances of such vitality that they almost constitute a new type of performance.
1) German NDW punk band, existing around 1980. Released 2 self-called EP's & a record called "Frisch & Fruchtig" in 1981. 2) Another german group from 2000 3) American/Canadian Artist who produces Hardcore (Rave/Techno) music. Name is spelt in lower case (phosphor)
More info on Phosphor (2)
Burkhard Beins : percussion, objects
Axel Dörner : trumpet, laptop
Robin Hayward : tuba
Annette Krebs : electro-acoustic guitar
Andrea Neumann : inside piano, mixing desk
Moniker and solo project of Sun City Girl, Alan Bishop.