John Tchicai
Saxophonist John Tchicai was best known for his time in New York during the height of the '60s free jazz explosion, but he actually spent the majority of his career advancing the cause of avant-garde jazz in Northern Europe. Tchicai was born April 28, 1936, in Copenhagen to a Danish mother and Congolese father; he began playing violin at age ten, switched to both clarinet and alto sax at 16, and focused on the latter at Denmark's Conservatory of Music. In the late '50s, Tchicai began making the rounds of the North European jazz scene, which was quick to pick up on the early innovations of the American avant-garde. In 1963, he moved to New York City to immerse himself in the epicenter of free jazz. He hooked up with Archie Shepp and Don Cherry, eventually co-founding the New York Contemporary Five with them; he was also a founding member of the New York Art Quartet with Roswell Rudd and Milford Graves. Tchicai also recorded with Albert Ayler (on New York Eye and Ear Control), the Jazz Composers Guild, and John Lennon (Life with the Lions), and -- most importantly -- appeared on John Coltrane's legendary free jazz landmark Ascension. After a whirlwind three years, Tchicai returned to Denmark in 1966 and founded a large workshop ensemble called Cadentia Nova Danica, which he led until 1971. Shortly thereafter, he cut back on performing to concentrate on teaching full-time. In 1977, he returned to the studio, leading a fairly steady series of recording dates into the '80s, when he switched to tenor sax and joined Pierre Dorge's New Jungle Orchestra. In 1990, Tchicai received a lifetime grant for jazz performance from the Danish Ministry of Culture; and the following year he relocated to California's Bay Area, where he and his keyboardist wife Margriet founded John Tchicai & the Archetypes and the John Tchicai Unit, which both recorded during the '90s. After the turn of the millennium he returned to Europe and moved to Southern France; in June 2012 Tchicai suffered a brain hemorrhage, and although he reportedly began physiotherapy, he died in Perpignan, France in October of that year. John Tchicai was 76 years old.
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Afrodisiaca
John Tchicai, Cadentia Nova Danica
Jazz - Lançado por MPS em 29/07/2008
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Nutcracker
Jeppe Skovbakke, Stefan Pasborg, John Tchicai
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por ILK Music em 14/06/2023
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Angel Wing
Jeppe Skovbakke, Stefan Pasborg, John Tchicai
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por ILK Music em 03/07/2023
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Real Tchicai
Jazz - Lançado por SteepleChase em 01/01/1993
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Dell Westergaard Lillinger feat. John Tchicai
Jazz - Lançado por Jazzwerkstatt em 01/01/2012
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Big Chief Dreaming
Paolino Dalla Porta, Tino Tracanna, Garrison Fewell, John Tchicai, Massimo Manzi
Jazz - Lançado por Soul Note em 01/01/2005
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Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard
Jazz - Lançado por Passin Thru em 18/04/2007
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Musical Monsters
Don Cherry, Irène Schweizer, John Tchicai, Léon Francioli, Pierre Favre
Jazz - Lançado por Intakt Records em 26/08/2016
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Blues In Green Yellow Red
Contemporary Jazz - Lançado por Ninth World Music - VME em 25/01/2010
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The Blue Giant
Jeppe Skovbakke, Stefan Pasborg, John Tchicai
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por ILK Music em 03/07/2023
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Men from Windy Land
Jazz - Lançado por Labirinti Sonori em 01/07/2015
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Cassava Balls
Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, Famoudou Don Moye
Jazz - Lançado por The Golden Years of Jazz em 02/11/2004
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Moonstone Journey
OK NOK … KONGO, Thomas Agergaard, John Tchicai
Jazz - Lançado por Gateway Music em 22/01/2021
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Love is Touching
Africa - Lançado por Melt 2000 em 01/01/2000
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Cadentia Nova Danica
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por 1201 MUSIC em 30/09/2013
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Barefoot Dance
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por Futura Marge - Atypeek Music em 27/11/2020
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Ensō : John Tchicai Lunar Quartet Live in Ferrara
Jazz - Lançado por Tonos Records em 28/03/2023
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ELEkTRO Vol. 1: John Tchicai
Elektro, John Tchicai, Lars Winberg
Jazz - Lançado por Gateway Music em 19/04/2010
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Hymn To Sophia (Hymne Til Sofia)
Classical - Lançado por Calibrated Records em 11/07/2006
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