Joseph Jarman (September 14, 1937 – January 9, 2019) was an American jazz musician, composer, poet, and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He was one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Biography
Early life
He was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. Jarman grew up in Chicago, Illinois. During his time there, he was part of the 11th Airborne Division Band for a year.
The AACM and his solo band
After he was discharged from the Army in 1958, Jarman attended Wilson Junior College, where he met bassist Malachi Favors Maghostut and saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, and Anthony Braxton. These men would often perform long jam sessions at the suggestion of their professor, Richard Wang (now with Illinois University). Mitchell introduced Jarman to pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, and Jarman, Mitchell, and Maghostut joined Abrams' Experimental Band, a private, non-performing ensemble, when that group was founded in 1961. The group moved to Paris in 1969, and lived there for many years in a commune that included Steve McCall, the drummer who went on to form the jazz trio Air, with Threadgill and bassist Fred Hopkins. Moving back to Chicago in the 1970s, Jarman lived in a musicians' building in Hyde Park, in Chicago, with Malachi Favors as his roommate. In 1983, he moved to Brooklyn, New York from Chicago and lived there until his death. He did not have much to do with music until 1996 when, in January, he recorded two CDs, The Scott Fields Ensembles' 48 Motives and the concert, duo CD Connecting Spirits with Marilyn Crispell, which Fields produced. Later in the year, his friend and fellow AACM peer Leroy Jenkins asked him to join a trio with him and Myra Melford in Chicago, which would eventually be called Equal Interest.
Along with the saxophone and clarinet, Jarman also played (and recorded on) nearly every member of the woodwind family, as well as a wide variety of percussion instruments. as announced by the New York chapter of the AACM on their website. He was 81.
Discography
As leader/co-leader
- 1966 – Song For (Delmark)
- 1968 – As If It Were the Seasons (Delmark)
- 1971 – Together Alone (Delmark) with Anthony Braxton
- 1976 - Sunbound Volume One (AECO)
- 1977 – Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (India Navigation) with Don Moye
- 1979 – The Magic Triangle (Black Saint) with Don Pullen & Don Moye
- 1979 – Black Paladins (Black Saint) with Don Moye & Johnny Dyani
- 1981 – Earth Passage - Density (Black Saint) with Don Moye, Craig Harris & Rafael Garrett
- 1983 – Inheritance (Four Star, 1991) with Geri Allen, Fred Hopkins and Don Moye
- 1991 – Calypso's Smile (AECO) with Don Moye
- 1996 – Connecting Spirits (Music & Arts) with Marilyn Crispell
- 1996 – Pachinko Dream Track 10 (Music & Arts)
- 1997 – Out of the Mist (Ocean) with Leroy Jenkins
- 1997 – Return of the Lost Tribe (Delmark) as Bright Moments: with Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors and Steve Colson
- 1997 – Equal Interest (OmniTone) as Equal Interest: with Leroy Jenkins and Myra Melford
- 2002 – Lifetime Vision Orchestra: Vision Festival 2002 (Jyuku Sound)
With the Art Ensemble of Chicago
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Numbers 1 & 2 – Lester Bowie
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1967
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Nessa
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Early Combinations - Art Ensemble
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1967
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Nessa
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | A Jackson in Your House
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1969
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | BYG Actuel
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Tutankhamun
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1969
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Freedom
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | The Spiritual
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1969
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Freedom
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | People in Sorrow
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1969
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Nessa
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Message to Our Folks
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1969
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | BYG-Actuel
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Reese and the Smooth Ones
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1969
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | BYG-Actuel
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Eda Wobu
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1969
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | JMY
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Certain Blacks
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1970
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | America
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Go Home
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1970
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Galloway
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Chi-Congo
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1970
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Paula
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Les Stances a Sophie
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1970
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Nessa
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Live in Paris
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1970
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Freedom
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1970
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | America
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Phase One
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1971
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | America
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Live at Mandell Hall
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1972
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Delmark
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Bap-Tizum
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1972
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Atlantic
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Fanfare for the Warriors
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1973
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Atlantic
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Kabalaba
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1974
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | AECO
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Nice Guys
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1978
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | ECM
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Live in Berlin
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1979
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | West Wind
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Full Force
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1980
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | ECM
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Urban Bushmen
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1980
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | ECM
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Among the People
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1980
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Praxis
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | The Complete Live in Japan
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1984
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | The Third Decade
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1984
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | ECM
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Naked
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1986
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Ancient to the Future
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1987
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | The Alternate Express
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1989
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Art Ensemble of Soweto
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1990
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | America - South Africa
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1990
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Thelonious Sphere Monk with Cecil Taylor
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1990
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Dreaming of the Masters Suite
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1990
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1991
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | DIW
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Fundamental Destiny with Don Pullen
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1991
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | AECO
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Salutes the Chicago Blues Tradition
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 1993
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | AECO
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Reunion
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 2003
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Around Jazz/Il Manifesto
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | The Meeting
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 2003
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Pi
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Sirius Calling
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 2004
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Pi
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| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | 2006
| style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" | Pi
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As sideman
With Anthony Braxton
- For Trio (Arista, 1978)
With Jerome Cooper
- Outer and Interactions (About Time, 1988)
With Alan Silva
- Seasons (BYG, 1971)
References
External links
- Audio Recordings of WCUW Jazz Festivals – Jazz History Database
- Aikido teacher profile
- Art Ensemble of Chicago web site
- Solo concert on SASSAS sound. concert archive
- insideoutintheopen.net/ Documentary film