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Black Host
5+ albums
free jazzjazzpercussionfrenchgerman
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Black Host is: Gerald Cleaver (drums, sound design), Cooper-Moore (piano, synth), Brandon Seabrook (guitar), Darius Jones (alto saxophone) and Pascal Niggenkemper (bass). Drummer Gerald Cleaver, born and raised in Detroit, is a product of the city’s rich music tradition. He earned a music education degree from the University of Michigan and taught public school in Detroit before joining the jazz faculty at both the University of Michigan and Michigan State University in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Gerald moved to NYC in 2002. He has performed and recorded with Joe Morris, Mat Maneri, Roscoe Mitchell, Miroslav Vitous, Michael Formanek, Ralph Alessi, Jeremy Pelt, David Torn, Mario Pavone and Tomasz Stanko, among others. Cooper-Moore is an improviser, composer, and educator who lives in East Harlem. He was born Gene Y. Ashton on August 31, 1946, in a small, racially-segregated town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 1967 he enrolled at the Berklee College of Music, while there he made a pivotal connection with saxophonist David S. Ware. In the 1970s, he and Ware relocated to New York City and established a loft space at 501 Canal Street that became a hub for many musicians to live, practice, and perform. There he started to create instruments of his own design, construction, and occasionally invention (ashimba, banjo, diddley-bo, flutes/fifes, harp, mouthbow, twanger, etc.) that he has used to extend his approach that combines blues, jazz, avant-garde, gospel, and o
