Mario Pavone is an American jazz

Jazz

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 bassist

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.

He grew up in Waterbury

Waterbury

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, Connecticut

Connecticut

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 and began performing in 1965. He was a member of Paul Bley

Paul Bley

Paul Bley, CM is a pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing.-Biography:...

's trio during 1968-72, and Bill Dixon

Bill Dixon

Bill Dixon was an American musician, composer, visual artist, and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal figures in the free jazz movement. He played the trumpet, flugelhorn, and piano, often using electronic delay and reverberation as part of his trumpet playing.-Biography:Dixon hailed from...

's trio during the 1980s. He also performed with such musicians as Barry Altschul

Barry Altschul

Barry Altschul is a free jazz drummer who gained fame in the late 1960s with the pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea.-Biography:...

, Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...

, and Gerry Hemingway

Gerry Hemingway

Gerry Hemingway is an American jazz composer and percussionist.He has performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don...

. Pavone recorded his first album as a leader in 1979, and has since recorded over a dozen albums under his name. In 1980 he began an 18 year musical relationship with saxophonist Thomas Chapin

Thomas Chapin

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. Along with drummer Michael Sarin, the group recorded seven albums for Knitting Factory Records

Knitting Factory Records

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, which also released an eight-CD box set of these albums plus a live recording following Chapin's death in 1998. Pavone also co-led a group with Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton

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 in the early 1990s. Since Chapin's death, Pavone has led many of his own groups, performing widely throughout North America

North America

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 and Europe

Europe

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. He also co-led a group with Michael Musillami. His groups have included, among others: Michael Sarin, Matt Wilson, Gerald Cleaver

Gerald Cleaver (musician)

Gerald Cleaver is an African-American jazz drummer from Detroit, Michigan. He joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995...

, Peter Madsen

Peter Madsen (pianist)

-Early life:Madsen was born in Racine, Wisconsin where he started playing classical piano when he was eight years old. He also classically studied upright bass at age ten. When Madsen was sixteen he started to play the piano in the jazz idiom. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire...

, Joshua Redman

Joshua Redman

Joshua Redman is an American jazz saxophonist and composer who records for Nonesuch Records. He won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991.-Biography:...

, Tony Malaby

Tony Malaby

Tony Malaby is a post-bop jazz tenor saxophonist. Malaby moved to New York City in 1995 and has played with several notable jazz groups, including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, Mark Helias’s Open Loose, Fred Hersch’s Trio + 2 and Walt Whitman...

, Dave Douglas

Dave Douglas (trumpeter)

Dave Douglas is an American jazz trumpeter and composer whose music derives from many non-jazz musical styles, including classical music, folk music from European countries and Klezmer. He has been a member of the experimental big band Orange Then Blue...

, Steven Bernstein, George Schuller

George Schuller

George Schuller is an American jazz drummer. He is the son of composer Gunther Schuller.He was born in New York City and raised in Boston, graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music with a BA in jazz performance in 1982. He then played locally with Herb Pomeroy, Ran Blake, George...

, Craig Taborn

Craig Taborn

Craig Taborn is an American keyboardist and composer. Playing piano, organ, and Moog synthesizer, Taborn has worked mostly in jazz, although he also does dark ambient and techno music....

, and Jimmy Greene.

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