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Tom Varner

Tom Varner

nato il 17.6.1957 a Morristown, NJ, Stati Uniti d'America

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Tom Varner

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Tom Varner

Tom Varner (born Morristown, New Jersey, United States, June 17, 1957) is an American jazz horn (French horn) player and composer.

Varner studied piano in his youth with Capitola Dickerson of Summit, New Jersey.[1][2] He holds a B.M. degree (1979) from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied jazz improvisation and composition with Ran Blake, George Russell, and Jaki Byard, and horn with Thomas Newell. He also studied briefly in 1976 with jazz horn pioneer Julius Watkins. Varner also holds an M.A. (2005) from the City College of New York, where he studied with Jim McNeely, Scott Reeves, and John Patitucci.

Biography

He has performed and recorded with Steve Lacy, Dave Liebman, George Gruntz, John Zorn, Bobby Watson, La Monte Young, Miles Davis with Quincy Jones, Bobby Previte, Jim McNeely, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, the Mingus Orchestra, Franz Koglmann, and appears on over 70 albums. He also has 12 albums out as a composer/leader, with sidemen such as Steve Wilson, Tony Malaby, Ed Jackson, Ellery Eskelin, Tom Rainey, Cameron Brown, Drew Gress, Matt Wilson, Kenny Barron, Victor Lewis, Fred Hopkins, and Billy Hart. Varner has been in the Down Beat Critics Poll Top Ten annually since the mid-1990s. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Doris Duke Foundation, and has been a resident at the MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, and Centrum arts colonies.

Varner's first two recordings as a leader were influenced by Ornette Coleman, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Anthony Braxton, and minimalists such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, and featured Varner's horn with alto sax (Ed Jackson), bass (Fred Hopkins or Ed Schuller) and drums (Billy Hart), with no chordal instrument. His third recording was a more "straight-ahead" jazz project, with Kenny Barron, Jim Snidero, Mike Richmond, and Victor Lewis. The fourth project was a Sonny Rollins-influenced trio of horn, bass (Mike Richmond) and drums (Bobby Previte). From that point (1987) on, most of Varner's work as a leader was for a quintet of horn and two saxes, bass, and drums, with frequent guest artists augmenting the ensembles. Varner has combined contemporary chamber music with jazz and free improvisation in almost all of his subsequent projects. His newest work (finished in 2008, released 2009), Heaven and Hell, is for a tentet of three brass, five reeds, and bass and drums.

Varner lived in New York City from 1979 to 2005, and now lives in Seattle. He is now Assistant Professor of Jazz Performance at Cornish College of the Arts.

Discography

As leader

  • 1981 - Tom Varner Quartet (Soul Note)
  • 1983 - Motion/Stillness (Soul Note)
  • 1985 - Jazz French Horn (Soul Note)
  • 1987 - Covert Action (New Note)
  • 1991 - Long Night Big Day (New World)
  • 1993 - The Mystery of Compassion (Soul Note)
  • 1997 - Martian Heartache (Soul Note)
  • 1998 - The Window Up Above (New World)
  • 1998 - The Swiss Duos (Unit)
  • 1999 - Swimming (OmniTone)
  • 2001 - Second Communion (OmniTone)
  • 2009 - Heaven and Hell (OmniTone)

As sideman

Varner appears on over 70 recordings including:

  • Rabih Abou-Khalil, The Cactus of Knowledge (Enja)
  • Jamie Baum Septet, Moving Forward, Standing Still (OmniTone)
  • William S. Burroughs, Dead City Radio (Island, 1990)
  • Consuelo Candelaria/Jon Hazilla Quintet Last Sunday Morning, (Accurate)
  • Steve Cohn/Reggie Workman/Tom Varner, Bridge Across the X-Steam (Leo)
  • Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux (Warner Bros.)
  • Dominic Duval, American Scrapbook (CIMP)
  • East Down Septet, Out of Gridlock (Hep)
  • East Down Septet, Channel Surfing (Hep)
  • Elin, Lazy Afternoon (Blue Toucan)
  • Lou Grassi/Tom Varner/Ron Horton/Tomas Ulrich, Neo Neo (CIMP)
  • George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, First Prize (Enja)
  • George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band '83, Theatre (ECM, 1983)
  • Ed Jackson, Wake Up Call (New World) [as producer and player]
  • Hans Kennel, Habarigani Brass (Hat Art)
  • Neal Kirkwood, Neal Kirkwood Octet (Timescraper)
  • Franz Koglmann, Lets Make Love (between the lines)
  • Franz Koglmann, Make Believe (between the lines)
  • Franz Koglmann, Cantos I-IV (Hat Art)
  • Steve Lacy, Vespers (Soul Note, 1993)
  • Steuart Liebig, Pomegranate (Cryptogramophone)
  • Manhattan New Music Project, Mood Swing (Soul Note)
  • Jim McNeely Tentet, Group Therapy (OmniTone)
  • Natalie Merchant, Ophelia (Elektra)
  • New York Composers Orchestra, Works by Ehrlich, Horvitz (New World)
  • Orange Then Blue, Hold the Elevator (GM)
  • Bobby Previte, Bump the Renaissance (Sound Aspects)
  • Bobby Previte, Pushing the Envelope (Gramavision)
  • Ken Schaphorst, Over the RainbowMusic of Harold Arlen (Accurate)
  • Peter Scharli Special Sextet, Blues for the Beast (Enja)
  • Peter Scharli Special Sextet, Guilty (Enja)
  • Roman Schwaller Nonet, The Original Tunes (JHM)
  • Vern Sielert Dectet, From there to Here (Pony Boy)
  • Burkhard Stangl/Ned Rothenberg/Werner Dafeldecker/Max Nagl/Tom Varner, Qui.t (Extraplatte)
  • Ton-Art, Mal Vu, Mal Dit (Hat Art)
  • Vienna Art Orchestra, Artistry in Rhythm (TCB)
  • Bobby Watson, Tailor Made (Columbia)
  • John Zorn Filmworks 1986-1990 (Elektra Nonesuch)

References

  1. Allen Huotari, Interview with Tom Varner, all about jazz, June 1999. URL accessed on 2009-11-07.
  2. Luigi Santosuosso, TOM VARNER INTERVIEW, Frank Tafuri, http://www.jazzhalo.com/artikels/varner.html.+URL accessed on 2009-11-07.

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