Joseph Jarman

Joseph Jarman (September 14, 1937 – January 9, 2019) was an American jazz musician, composer, poet, and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He was one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Biography Early life He was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. Jarman grew up in Chicago, Illinois. During his time there, he was part of the 11th Airborne Division Band for a year.

The AACM and his solo band After he was discharged from the Army in 1958, Jarman attended Wilson Junior College, where he met bassist Malachi Favors Maghostut and saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, and Anthony Braxton. These men would often perform long jam sessions at the suggestion of their professor, Richard Wang (now with Illinois University). Mitchell introduced Jarman to pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, and Jarman, Mitchell, and Maghostut joined Abrams' Experimental Band, a private, non-performing ensemble, when that group was founded in 1961. The group moved to Paris in 1969, and lived there for many years in a commune that included Steve McCall, the drummer who went on to form the jazz trio Air, with Threadgill and bassist Fred Hopkins. Moving back to Chicago in the 1970s, Jarman lived in a musicians' building in Hyde Park, in Chicago, with Malachi Favors as his roommate. In 1983, he moved to Brooklyn, New York from Chicago and lived there until his death. He did not have much to do with music until 1996 when, in January, he recorded two CDs, The Scott Fields Ensembles' 48 Motives and the concert, duo CD Connecting Spirits with Marilyn Crispell, which Fields produced. Later in the year, his friend and fellow AACM peer Leroy Jenkins asked him to join a trio with him and Myra Melford in Chicago, which would eventually be called Equal Interest.

Along with the saxophone and clarinet, Jarman also played (and recorded on) nearly every member of the woodwind family, as well as a wide variety of percussion instruments. as announced by the New York chapter of the AACM on their website. He was 81.

Discography As leader/co-leader 1966 – Song For (Delmark) 1968 – As If It Were the Seasons (Delmark) 1971 – Together Alone (Delmark) with Anthony Braxton 1976 - Sunbound Volume One (AECO) 1977 – Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (India Navigation) with Don Moye 1979 – The Magic Triangle (Black Saint) with Don Pullen & Don Moye 1979 – Black Paladins (Black Saint) with Don Moye & Johnny Dyani 1981 – Earth Passage - Density (Black Saint) with Don Moye, Craig Harris & Rafael Garrett 1983 – Inheritance (Four Star, 1991) with Geri Allen, Fred Hopkins and Don Moye 1991 – Calypso's Smile (AECO) with Don Moye 1996 – Connecting Spirits (Music & Arts) with Marilyn Crispell 1996 – Pachinko Dream Track 10 (Music & Arts) 1997 – Out of the Mist (Ocean) with Leroy Jenkins 1997 – Return of the Lost Tribe (Delmark) as Bright Moments: with Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors and Steve Colson 1997 – Equal Interest (OmniTone) as Equal Interest: with Leroy Jenkins and Myra Melford 2002 – Lifetime Vision Orchestra: Vision Festival 2002 (Jyuku Sound)

With the Art Ensemble of Chicago Title Year Label Numbers 1 & 2 – Lester Bowie 1967 Nessa Early Combinations - Art Ensemble 1967 Nessa A Jackson in Your House 1969 BYG Actuel Tutankhamun 1969 Freedom The Spiritual 1969 Freedom People in Sorrow 1969 Nessa Message to Our Folks 1969 BYG-Actuel Reese and the Smooth Ones 1969 BYG-Actuel Eda Wobu 1969 JMY Certain Blacks 1970 America Go Home 1970 Galloway Chi-Congo 1970 Paula Les Stances a Sophie 1970 Nessa Live in Paris 1970 Freedom Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass 1970 America Phase One 1971 America Live at Mandell Hall 1972 Delmark Bap-Tizum 1972 Atlantic Fanfare for the Warriors 1973 Atlantic Kabalaba 1974 AECO Nice Guys 1978 ECM Live in Berlin 1979 West Wind Full Force 1980 ECM Urban Bushmen 1980 ECM Among the People 1980 Praxis The Complete Live in Japan 1984 DIW The Third Decade 1984 ECM Naked 1986 DIW Ancient to the Future 1987 DIW The Alternate Express 1989 DIW Art Ensemble of Soweto 1990 DIW America - South Africa 1990 DIW Thelonious Sphere Monk with Cecil Taylor 1990 DIW Dreaming of the Masters Suite 1990 DIW Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy 1991 DIW Fundamental Destiny with Don Pullen 1991 AECO Salutes the Chicago Blues Tradition 1993 AECO Reunion 2003 Around Jazz/Il Manifesto The Meeting 2003 Pi Sirius Calling 2004 Pi Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City 2006 Pi

As sideman With Anthony Braxton For Trio (Arista, 1978)

With Jerome Cooper Outer and Interactions (About Time, 1988)

With Alan Silva Seasons (BYG, 1971)