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| years_active = 1940s–1990s
| years_active = 1940s–1990s
| label = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]], [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]], [[Verve Records|Verve]], Choice, [[Soul Note]], CELP
| label = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]], [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]], [[Verve Records|Verve]], Choice, [[Soul Note]], CELP
| associated_acts = [[Lighthouse All-Stars]], [[Shelly Manne]], [[Shorty Rogers]], [[Bob Brookmeyer]], [[Lee Konitz]], [[Modern Jazz Quartet]], [[Herb Ellis]], [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]], [[Paul Bley]], [[Steve Swallow]]
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In the early 1970s, Giuffre formed a new trio with bassist Kiyoshi Tokunaga and drummer Randy Kaye. Giuffre added instruments including bass flute and soprano saxophone to his arsenal. A later group included [[Pete Levin]] playing synthesizer and replaced Tokunaga with electric bassist Bob Nieske. This group recorded three albums for the Italian [[Black Saint/Soul Note|Soul Note]] label.<ref>Lock, p. 132</ref>
In the early 1970s, Giuffre formed a new trio with bassist Kiyoshi Tokunaga and drummer Randy Kaye. Giuffre added instruments including bass flute and soprano saxophone to his arsenal. A later group included [[Pete Levin]] playing synthesizer and replaced Tokunaga with electric bassist Bob Nieske. This group recorded three albums for the Italian [[Black Saint/Soul Note|Soul Note]] label.<ref>Lock, p. 132</ref>


During the 1970s, Giuffre was hired by [[New York University]] to head its jazz ensemble, and to teach private lessons in saxophone and music composition. He also taught jazz improvisation at Manhattanville College.  
During the 1970s, Giuffre was hired by [[New York University]] to head its jazz ensemble, and to teach private lessons in saxophone and music composition. He also taught jazz improvisation at Manhattanville College.


Into the 1990s, Giuffre continued teaching and performing. He recorded with [[Joe McPhee]], and revived the trio with Bley and Swallow (though Swallow had switched to bass guitar, giving the group a different sound).<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> Through the mid-1990s, Giuffre taught at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]]. He suffered from [[Parkinson's disease]] and in his last years he no longer performed. Giuffre died of [[pneumonia]] in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], on April 24, 2008, two days short of his 87th birthday.<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/30/jazz|title=Obituary: Jimmy Giuffre|date=29 April 2008|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=July 27, 2021}}</ref>
Into the 1990s, Giuffre continued teaching and performing. He recorded with [[Joe McPhee]], and revived the trio with Bley and Swallow (though Swallow had switched to bass guitar, giving the group a different sound).<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> Through the mid-1990s, Giuffre taught at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]]. He suffered from [[Parkinson's disease]] and in his last years he no longer performed. Giuffre died of [[pneumonia]] in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], on April 24, 2008, two days short of his 87th birthday.<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/30/jazz|title=Obituary: Jimmy Giuffre|date=29 April 2008|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=July 27, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Ratliff|first=Ben|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/arts/music/26giuffre.html|title=Jimmy Giuffre, Imaginative Jazz Artist, Dies at 86|newspaper=New York Times|date=April 26, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Schudel|first=Matt|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2008/04/26/jimmy-giuffre-infused-jazz-with-blues-classical-notes/febfd69e-90b0-4154-a226-02abf93d0fbb/|title=Jimmy Giuffre; Infused Jazz With Blues, Classical Notes|newspaper=Washington Post|date=April 25, 2008}}</ref>


==Discography==
==Discography==
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*1959: ''[[The Easy Way (Jimmy Giuffre album)|The Easy Way]]'' (Verve)
*1959: ''[[The Easy Way (Jimmy Giuffre album)|The Easy Way]]'' (Verve)
*1959: ''[[Piece for Clarinet and String Orchestra/Mobiles]]'' (Verve) with the Sudwestfunk Orchestra of Baden Baden  
*1959: ''[[Piece for Clarinet and String Orchestra/Mobiles]]'' (Verve) with the Sudwestfunk Orchestra of Baden Baden  
*1959: ''Princess (Fini Jazz) Italian release – recorded at Adriano Theatre, Rome, Italy, June 19, 1959
*1959: ''Princess'' (Fini Jazz) Italian release – recorded at Adriano Theatre, Rome, Italy, June 19, 1959
*1960: ''[[The Jimmy Giuffre Quartet in Person]]'' (Verve)
*1960: ''[[The Jimmy Giuffre Quartet in Person]]'' (Verve)
*1961: ''[[Fusion (Jimmy Giuffre 3 album)|Fusion]]'' (Verve)
*1961: ''[[Fusion (Jimmy Giuffre 3 album)|Fusion]]'' (Verve)
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* [http://www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php3?read=butters1 Jimmy Giuffre: Cry Freedom by Rex Butters]
* [http://www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php3?read=butters1 Jimmy Giuffre: Cry Freedom by Rex Butters]
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1918688/Jimmy-Giuffre.html Daily Telegraph obituary]
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1918688/Jimmy-Giuffre.html Daily Telegraph obituary]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/music/25cnd-giuffre.html New York Times obituary]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080430042849/http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/7693/79/ Jazz Police obituary]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080430042849/http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/7693/79/ Jazz Police obituary]
* [http://streams.wgbh.org/online/play.php?xml=specials/jzpt/guiffre_jimmy.xml&template=wgbh_audio Jazz Portraits from the WGBH Archives: Jimmy Giuffre] a radio documentary from [https://web.archive.org/web/20091006000423/http://www.wgbh.org/jazz/ WGBH Radio Boston]
* [http://streams.wgbh.org/online/play.php?xml=specials/jzpt/guiffre_jimmy.xml&template=wgbh_audio Jazz Portraits from the WGBH Archives: Jimmy Giuffre] a radio documentary from [https://web.archive.org/web/20091006000423/http://www.wgbh.org/jazz/ WGBH Radio Boston]
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James Peter Giuffre (Template:IPAc-en, Script error: No such module "IPA".; April 26, 1921[1] – April 24, 2008)[2] was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.

Biography

Jimmy Giuffre was born in Dallas, Texas, United States,[1] the son of Joseph Francis Giuffre (an Italian immigrant from Termini Imerese, Palermo Province, Sicily)Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and Everet McDaniel Giuffre. Giuffre was a graduate of Dallas Technical High School and North Texas State Teachers College (University of North Texas College of Music).[1] He first became known as an arranger for Woody Herman's big band, for which he wrote "Four Brothers" (1947).[1] He would continue to write creative, unusual arrangements throughout his career. He was a central figure in West Coast jazz and cool jazz.[3] He became a member of Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars in 1951 as a full-time All Star, along with Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne. The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California became the focal point of West Coast jazz in the 1952–53 period. During this time, he collaborated with Rogers on many of the charts written for the All Stars. The first recording released by the Lighthouse All Stars was a not so West Coast jazz chart named "Big Boy", which he and Rogers had put together.[4] It was an instant hit in Los Angeles.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He left the band in September 1953 and became a member of Shorty Rogers and His Giants before going solo. At this point in his career, Giuffre predominantly played tenor and baritone saxophone.

His first trio consisted of Giuffre, guitarist Jim Hall[1] and double bassist Ralph Peña (later replaced by Jim Atlas). They had a minor hit in 1957 when Giuffre's "The Train and the River", was featured on the television special The Sound of Jazz. This trio explored what Giuffre dubbed "blues-based folk jazz". This same special matched Giuffre with fellow clarinetist Pee Wee Russell for a leisurely jam session simply titled "Blues".

When Atlas left the trio, Giuffre replaced him with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer.[1] This unusual instrumentation was partly inspired by Aaron Copland. The group can be seen performing "The Train and the River" in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.[1]

In 1959, Giuffre led a trio featuring Hall and bassist Buddy Clark on a concert in Rome, Italy, sharing the bill with Gerry Mulligan's band.

In 1961, Giuffre formed a new trio with pianist Paul Bley and Steve Swallow on double bass, and began to focus his attention largely on the clarinet. This group received little attention while active, but were later cited by some critics and musicians as among the most important groups in jazz history.[5] They explored free jazz not in the aggressive mode of Albert Ayler or Archie Shepp, but with a hushed, quiet focus closer to chamber music.[6] The trio's explorations of melody, harmony and rhythm are still as striking and radical as any in jazz. Thom Jurek has written that this trio's recordings are "one of the most essential documents regarding the other side of early-'60s jazz."[7]

Giuffre, Bley and Swallow eventually explored wholly improvised music, several years ahead of the free improvisation boom in Europe.[1] Jurek writes that Free Fall, their final record, "was such radical music, no one, literally no one, was ready for it and the group disbanded shortly thereafter on a night when they made only 35 cents apiece for a set."[7]

In the early 1970s, Giuffre formed a new trio with bassist Kiyoshi Tokunaga and drummer Randy Kaye. Giuffre added instruments including bass flute and soprano saxophone to his arsenal. A later group included Pete Levin playing synthesizer and replaced Tokunaga with electric bassist Bob Nieske. This group recorded three albums for the Italian Soul Note label.[8]

During the 1970s, Giuffre was hired by New York University to head its jazz ensemble, and to teach private lessons in saxophone and music composition. He also taught jazz improvisation at Manhattanville College.

Into the 1990s, Giuffre continued teaching and performing. He recorded with Joe McPhee, and revived the trio with Bley and Swallow (though Swallow had switched to bass guitar, giving the group a different sound).[1] Through the mid-1990s, Giuffre taught at the New England Conservatory of Music. He suffered from Parkinson's disease and in his last years he no longer performed. Giuffre died of pneumonia in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on April 24, 2008, two days short of his 87th birthday.[2][9][10]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

As sideman, arranger and/or composer

See also

References

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