Kip Hanrahan
Encyclopedia
Kip Hanrahan is an American
jazz
music
impresario
, record producer
and percussionist.
-Jewish family. He 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
.
He produced a number of significant recordings by the nuevo tango
master Ástor Piazzolla
in the last decade of Piazzolla's life, as well as recordings by Latin music figures including Jerry Gonzalez
. Hanrahan also worked with the poet Ishmael Reed
on three recordings with the Conjure Ensemble, including 2006's Bad Mouth. These side projects were not the only poetry-based discs: Darn It from 1994 celebrates the work of Paul Haines
.
United States
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jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
music
Music
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impresario
Impresario
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, record producer
Record producer
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and percussionist.
Biography
Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an IrishIrish people
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-Jewish family. He 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
Don Pullen
Don Pullen was an American jazz pianist and organist. Pullen developed a strikingly individual style throughout his career. He composed masterworks ranging from blues to bebop and modern jazz...
and Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow is a jazz double bass and bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.One of the leading bassists in jazz, Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton and Carla Bley...
, Latin jazz players such as Milton Cardona
Milton Cardona
Milton Cardona is a percussionist, vocalist and conga player from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.-Biography:Milton has made over 500 recordings in his career and was highly influenced by Mongo Santamaria. He studied violin during his childhood in Puerto Rico and played bass professionally in New York City...
and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and occasionally rock singers like Sting and, most notably, Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce
John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
.
He produced a number of significant recordings by the nuevo tango
Nuevo tango
Tango Nuevo - either a form of music in which new elements are incorporated into traditional Argentine tango, or an evolution of tango dance that began to develop in the 1980s...
master Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
in the last decade of Piazzolla's life, as well as recordings by Latin music figures including Jerry Gonzalez
Jerry Gonzalez
Jerry Gonzalez is an American-born Latino jazz trumpeter and percussionist, most noteworthy for his contributions to Latin jazz.-Biography:-Early life and career:...
. Hanrahan also worked with the poet Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. A prominent African-American literary figure, Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression.Reed has been described as one of the most controversial...
on three recordings with the Conjure Ensemble, including 2006's Bad Mouth. These side projects were not the only poetry-based discs: Darn It from 1994 celebrates the work of Paul Haines
Paul Haines
Paul Haines is an award-winning New Zealand-born horror and speculative fiction writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia with this wife and daughter....
.
Selected discography
The list includes recordings released under Hanrahan's own name, as well as those released under the name Conjure.Studio releases
- Coup de Tete (recorded 1979-81)
- Desire Develops an Edge (recorded 1982-3)
- Vertical's Currency (recorded 1984)
- Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted (recorded 1988-9, released 1990)
- TendernessTenderness (album)Tenderness is a dark experimental [Latin Jazz meets Downtown Music] recording under the musical direction of Kip Hanrahan.-Track listing:#'...Faith In The Pants, Not In The Prick...' - 5:37...
(recorded 1988-9, released 1990) - Exotica (recorded 1992, released 1993)
- All Roads Are Made of the Flesh (recorded 1984–94, released 1995)
- Beautiful Scars (released 2007)
- At Home In Anger (released 2011)
Conjure
- Conjure (recorded 1983, released 1985)
- Conjure: Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon (recorded 1987-8, released 1988)
- Conjure: Bad Mouth (recorded 2005, released 2006)
Trilogy
- A Thousand Nights and a Night (1 - Red Nights) (recorded 1994-6, released 1996)
- A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 1) (released 1998)
- A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 2) (recorded 1994-8)
Soundtracks
- Original music from the soundtrack to PiñeroPiñeroPiñero is a 2001 biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican poet and playwright Miguel Piñero, starring Benjamin Bratt as the titular character. It was written and directed by the Cuban filmmaker, Leon Ichaso. It premiered at the Montreal Film Festival on 31 August 2001...
(recorded 2001, released 2002)
Compilations
- Anthology (released 1993)
- Drawn from Memory (Greatest Hits, Or Whatever... Kip on Campus) (released 2000)
External links
- "American Clavé" - Kip Hanrahan's record label
- BBC review of Beautiful Scars, 2007
- "Kip Hanrahan non official site" - French Fan Web Site in English