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Mark Helias
Mark Helias | |
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 Helias at Cornelia street cafe, July 2, 2010 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | (1950-10-01) October 1, 1950 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, educator |
| Instruments | Double bass |
| Labels | Enja, Radio Legs, Koch, GM |
| Associated acts | Ray Anderson, Slickaphonics, Gerry Hemingway, BassDrumBone, Anthony Braxton, Dewey Redman, Marty Ehrlich |
| Website | MarkHelias.com/ |
Mark Helias (born October 1, 1950) is an American jazz double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He started playing the double bass at the age of 20, graduating from Yale University's School of Music with a Masters degree in 1976. He has also studied at Rutgers University.[1] He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, and SIM (School for Improvised Music).[1]
Helias has performed with a wide variety of musicians, first and foremost with trombonist Ray Anderson, with whom he led the ironic 1980s avant-funk band Slickaphonics, and a trio with Gerry Hemingway on drums, formed in the late 1970s, later named BassDrumBone, and continuing to play together. Helias has also performed with members of Ornette Colemans band, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, and Ed Blackwell, and with musicians affiliated with the AACM, such as Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams.
Since 1984 Mark Helias has released six recordings under his own name and further six albums leading the archetypal improvising trio Open Loose since 1996. The group comprises Helias on bass, first Ellery Eskelin, then Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone and Tom Rainey on drums.
Contents
1 Recognition/Awards
2 Discography
2.1 As leader
2.2 Collaborations
2.3 As sideman
3 References
4 External links
Recognition/Awards
- 2010 - American Composers Orchestra Reading Commission,
- 2007 - Chamber Music America Grant for New Works,
- 2006 - Distinguished Alumnus Award Livingston College,
- 1991 - Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Commission,
- 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2000 - Arts International Travel Grant,
- 1988, 1994 - NYFA Grant in Music Composition,
- 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1995 - NEA Grant in Jazz Performance,
- 1981 - CAPS Grant in Music Composition,
Discography
As leader
Fictionary (GM Recordings, 1998)
Loopin' the Cool (Enja, 1995)
Attack the Future (Enja, 1992)
Desert Blue (Enja, 1989)
The Current Set (Enja, 1987)
Split Image (Enja, 1984)
With Open Loose
The Signal Maker (Intakt, 2015)
Explicit – Live at the Sunset (Marge, 2011)
Strange Unison (Radio Legs, 2008)
Atomic Clock (Radio Legs, 2006)
Verbs of Will (Radio Legs, 2004)
New School (Enja, 2001) Tony Malaby replaces Eskelin
Come Ahead Back... (E1/Koch Jazz, 1998) with Ellery Eskelin and Tom Rainey
Collaborations
With Sophia Domancich and Andrew Cyrille
Courtepointe - Live at the Sunside (Marge, 2012)
With Terrence McManus and Gerry Hemingway
Transcendental Numbers (NoBusiness, 2011)
With Michael Moore, Alex Maguire, and Han Bennink
White Widow (Ramboy, 2001)
With Mark Dresser
The Marks Brothers (De Werf, 2000)
With Daniele D'Agaro and U.T. Gandhi
Gentle Ben (Nota, 1999)
With Christy Doran, Bobby Previte, Gary Thomas
Corporate Art (JMT, 1991)
With Slickaphonics
Live (Teldec, 1988)
Check Your Head at the Door (Teldec, 1986)
Humatomic Energy (Blue Heron, 1985)
Modern Life (Enja, 1984)
Wow Bag (Enja, 1982)
With Ray Anderson and Gerry Hemingway a.k.a. BassDrumBone
The Other Parade (Clean Feed, 2011)
The Line Up (Clean Feed, 2006)
March of Dimes (Data, 2002)
(Hence the Reason) (Enja, 1997)
Wooferlo (Soul Note, 1989) first album as BassDrumBone
Cooked to Perfection (Auricle, 1999; Compilation of rec. from 1986, 1987, and 1996)
You Be (Minor Music, 1986)
Oahspe (Auricle, 1979)
As sideman
With Ralph Alessi and Modular Theatre
Open Season (RKM Music, 2008)
With Barry Altschul
Irina (Soul Note, 1983)
Brahma (Sackville, 1980)
Somewhere Else (Moers Music, 1979)
With Ray Anderson
Wishbone (Justin Time, 1991)
Right Down Your Alley (Soul Note, 1984)
With the Ed Blackwell Project
Vol.1: What It Is? (Enja, 1993)
Vol.2: What It Be Like? (Enja, 1994)
With Jane Ira Bloom
Wingwalker (Outline, 2010)
Mental Weather (Outline, 2008)
With Anthony Braxton
Six Compositions: Quartet (Antilles, 1982)
Quintet (Basel) 1977 (hatOLOGY, 2001)
With Marilyn Crispell
Storyteller (ECM, 2003)
With Franco D'Andrea
Sei brani inediti (Red, 1991)
No Idea of Time (Red, 1984)
My One and Only Love (Red, 1983)
With Anthony Davis
Song for the Old World (India Navigation, 1978)
With Benoît Delbecq Unit
- Benoît Delbecq and Fred Hersch Double Trio - Fun House (Songlines, 2013)
Phonetics (Songlines, 2005)
With Paul Dunmall Sun Quartet
Ancient and Future Airs (Clean Feed, 2009)
With Marty Ehrlich
The Long View (Enja, 2002)- Dark Woods Ensemble – Sojourn (Tzadik, 1999)
- Dark Woods Ensemble – Live Wood (Music & Arts, 1997)
- Dark Woods Ensemble – Just Before the Dawn (New World, 1995)
With Ricardo Gallo's Tierra de Nadie
The Great Fine Line (Clean Feed, 2011)
With Dennis González NY Quartet
Dance of the Soothsayer’s Tongue (Live at Tonic) (Clean Feed, 2007)
NY Midnight Suite (Clean Feed, 2004)
With Jerome Harris
Algorithms (Minor, 1986)
With Gerry Hemingway
The Whimbler (Clean Feed, 2005)
Outerbridge Crossing (Sound Aspects, 1989)
Kwambe (Auricle, 1978)
With Peter Herborn
Traces of Trane (JMT, 1992)
With David Lopato
Inside Outside (Enemy, 1991)
With Joe Lovano
Rush Hour (Blue Note, 1994)
With Michael Moore
Bering (Ramboy, 1998)
Chicoutimi (Ramboy, 1994)
Home Game (Ramboy, 1992)
With Simon Nabatov
The Master and Margarita (Leo, 2001)
Tough Customer (Enja, 1993)
With Operazone (Bill Laswell-Alan Douglas-Karl Berger-Project)
The Redesign (Knitting Factory, 2000)
With Jim Pepper
Comin' and Goin' (Europa, 1983)
With Bobby Previte
Music of the Moscow Circus (Gramavision, 1991)
With Enrico Rava
Flat Fleet (Philology, 2005)
With Dewey Redman
The Struggle Continues (ECM, 1982)
Musics (Galaxy, 1978)
Soundsigns (Galaxy, 1978)
With Joe Rosenberg
Do What We Must Do (CIMP, 2002)
With Samo Salamon
Government Cheese (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2007; rec. 2004)
Two Hours (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006; rec. 2004)
With Dave Schnitter
Glowing (Muse, 1981)
References
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External links
- Mark Helias official site
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