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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZBURRELL, Dave(b Herman Davis Burrell II, 10 Sep. '40, Middletown OH) Piano, composer; other instruments. Degrees from Boston Conservatory and Berklee College of Music, later taught at Queen's College NYC '71--3; cross- cultural work on films, books with Haitian, African, Jamaican music; TV work incl. soundtrack for Witherspoon (CBS), Jazz In New York Today (Rome TV); many arrangements and albums with Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown on several labels; contributed trio track 'Black Robert' to Wildflower project. Own LPs began with trio sets on Douglas '65, Arista '68; Echo '69 recorded in Paris, later on Affinity in UK: two tone poems played by septet incl. Shepp, Grachan Moncur III, Sunny Murray. Teardrops For Jimmy '77 was a solo set, Lush Life and Round Midnight '78 have Takashi Mizuhashi's bass on most tracks (all on Denon, tracks from the last two now on CD Plays Ellington And Monk). Other albums on European, Japanese labels: La Vie de BohŠme '69 (after Puccini; septet incl. Moncur, singer Eleanor Burrell), After Love '70 (quintet with Roscoe Mitchell), Dreams '73 (duo with bass), solo sets Only Me '73, Black Spring '77; two-disc solo concert Windward Passages '79 now on hat Art, made in Basel. A fine American musician ('an elegant rascal', wrote Dave McElfresh in Cadence, a quality he shares with Duke Ellington), he had no albums listed in US catalogues for years until the CD era: CDs Brother To Brother and Daybreak with David Murray were on Gazell, as well as The Jelly Roll Joys '92; Live At The Blue Note '96 was on Concord, with Roland Hanna, Jerome Richardson, seven others plus two vocalists. |