Mark Whitecage is an American jazz

Jazz

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 reedist.

Whitecage played in his father's family ensemble as early as age six. In the 1980s, he played with Gunter Hampel

Gunter Hampel

Gunter Hampel is a German jazz vibraphonist, clarinettist, saxophonist, flautist, pianist and composer born in Göttingen, Germany, perhaps best-known for his album "The 8th of July 1969" that included fellow musicians Anthony Braxton, Willem Breuker and Jeanne Lee...

's Galaxy Dream Band, Jeanne Lee

Jeanne Lee

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, and Saheb Sarbib

Saheb Sarbib

Saheb Sarbib is an American jazz double-bassist and bandleader.Sarbib, born Jean Henri Sarbib, was raised in Europe. His father was Roger Sarbib a well-respected French pianist and innovator of the Big Band style in Portugal in the 40's and 50's also pianist of icons of French song such as: Edith...

. After touring solo in Europe in 1986, he put together two bands as a leader, Liquid Time and the Glass House Ensemble. In the 1990s, and his first release with Liquid Time was chosen by Cadence Magazine as one of the year's best albums. He worked in the Improvisers Collective from 1994, and began releasing albums on CIMP in 1996 Late in the 1990s he worked with Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton

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, including in performances of Braxton's opera

Opera

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, Trillium R. He has also played with William Parker, Perry Robinson

Perry Robinson

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, Joe Fonda

Joe Fonda

Joe Fonda is an American jazz bassist.Fonda was born in Amsterdam, New York to parents who both played jazz. He played guitar as a youth but switched to bass guitar later on. He studied bass at Berklee College of Music, where he also began playing upright bass. He played in the New Haven,...

, Dominic Duval

Dominic Duval

Dominic Duval is an American free jazz bassist.Since the 1990s, Duval has been active principally on the New York City jazz scene. He did not begin recording regularly until the 1990s, but since then has appeared on a very large number of albums, particularly on the labels CIMP, Cadence Jazz, and...

, Joe McPhee

Joe McPhee

Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone...

, and Steve Swell

Steve Swell

Steve Swell is an American free jazz trombonist and composer.Swell studied at Jersey City State College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his musical life, playing in top 40 bands, salsa bands, big bands and performed on Broadway in Bob Fosse's "Dancin""...

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He is married to clarinetist Rozanne Levine; they perform together with Perry Robinson in a trio called Crystal Clarinets.

Discography

• Mark Whitecage & Liquid Time (Acoustics Records, 1990)
• Free for Once (CIMP, 1996)
• Caged No More (CIMP, 1996)
• 3 + 4 = 5 (CIMP, 1997)
• Consensual Tension (CIMP, 1998)
• Split Personality (GM Records, 1998)
• Ducks on Acid (Acoustics, 2003)
• Bushwacked: A Spoken Opera (Acoustics, 2005)

• Fractured Standards & Fairy Tales (Acoustics)
• Fractured Again (Acoustics)
• Moon Blue Boogie (Acoustics)
• Research on the Edge (CIMP)
• The Paper Trail (Acoustics)