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Kip Hanrahan
12+ albums
jazzAvant-GardepercussionUSAlatin
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Kip Hanrahan (born December 9, 1954) is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist. Born to an Irish-Jewish family in the Bronx, New York. Hanrahan has an unusual role in the albums released under his name, one which he has analogized to that of a film director. He assembles players and materials, combining modern/avant-garde/free jazz figures like Don Pullen and Steve Swallow, Latin jazz players such as Milton Cardona and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and occasionally rock singers like Sting and, most notably, Jack Bruce. Hanrahan produced a number of significant recordings the Nuevo Tango master Astor Piazzolla in the last decade of Piazzolla's life, as well as recordings by Latin music figures Jerry Gonzalez, Milton Cardona, and others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Hanrahan yelloo's journal | dramatizing latin jazz | 21 Jan 2008, 05:22 Kip Hanrahan is a man of talent and skill. He can bring a wide range of instruments, vocals (both spoken and sung), and musical genres together while keeping a very concrete stylistic integrity. I like the avant-garde spin that brings a hint of mystique and a lot of drama. No wonder he sees himself as a kind of stage director. His albums are a play without actors, a script without dialogue. His music can overcome potential clashes in meaning, instruments, and the culture that each musical genre represents by invoking listeners' imagination. http://www.last.fm/user/yelloo http://www.last.fm/user/yelloo/journ
