Joe Gallivan
Joe Gallivan
( Email:
joe@joegallivan.net )
This
year, I will be offering" LOVE CRY WANT" with Michelle Webb, Tom McNalley and
myself and the "RAINFOREST INITIATIVE" with Anupriya and Paul Rogers and me.
Michelle and Tom are the best young musicians I've found in years. Both have a
distinctive voice and are mature players having had many diverse experiences in
relatively short careers. this trio can play anywhere anytime with great energy
and fire----------The first "LOVE CRY WANT" featured the great LARRY YOUNG and
had one self titled CD. I gave up looking for another organist like him and
turned to two fantastic musicians who played guitar and bass guitar with a
similar energy and creativity and we have just recorded the 2nd "LOVE CRY WANT"
CD .
, The "RAINFOREST INITIATIVE "was first a nine piece that included Evan Parker,
Elton Dean ,Marcio Matto,the great Brazilian bassist and three hawaiian women
chanters and healers. Unfortunately Elton and Mahalanie Poi Poi have left us and
what was "Rainforest21" has become the "RAINFOREST INITIATIVE'" with Anupriya
and Paul Rogers. I would like to be able to share with you the experiences of
audiences in Europe where the people become hypnotized by the music and share
what for us is a mystical experience.
Joe's Bio:
Born in Rochester, New York, Joe Gallivan began his professional career in Miami
at
age 15 working in television and with a series of local bands including the
Latin band of Eduardo Chavez
and the big bands of Art Mooney and Charley Spivak, and, later, with trios
accompanying well known singers and musicians including Dizzy Gillespie and
Dakota
Staton, as well as comedians including Lennie Bruce, Lord Buckley and Harry the
Hipster. He studied music at University of Miami and with various private
teachers
including Bower Murphy.
Joe's recording career began in Boston with Bob Freedman, Bill Berry and
Don Vincent; the following year he recorded a single featuring Sonny Criss, and
the
year after with the Modern Jazz Orchestra with Kenny Drew on piano. This Miami
recording was released in England and France and was re-released on CD in 2001.
In 1961, Joe moved to New York and co-lead with Donald Byrd an ensemble which
included, at various times, Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, John Coles, Eddie Bert,
Jimmy
Knepper, Pepper Adams, Herbie Hancock and Elvin Jones.
In 1962, Joe returned to Miami and worked as conductor of the television show
"Music USA". At this time he also began a collaboration with multi-reed player
Charles Austin which has resulted in many albums, tours and festival appearances
over
three decades. Their music was praised by Igor Stravinsky, who wrote a letter of
recommendation to CBS on their behalf. At the 1968 Miami Pop
Festival, they played after Jimi Hendrix and before the Mothers of Invention.
Here's a YouTube of one of Joe and Charles' albums:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb2zk50yrCU
In 1968, Joe also worked with N.R.B.Q. (the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet) and
organized A Train of Thought, the first all-electronic big band, for which Joe
and Stan
Goldstein built much of the equipment . The band was composed of legendary
players that included Charles Austin, Ira Sullivan and Paul Cohen. At a second
Miami
Pop Festival, the band backed Chuck Berry and Marvin Gaye.
In 1969, Joe moved back to New York City, where, after eighteen months of
freelancing, including creating five improvisational film scores for Warner
Brothers, he
was invited to join Larry Young's ensemble, with whom he worked for nearly three
years. Gil Evans heard Joe play at the Newport Jazz Festival with Elvin Jones
and
invited him to join his orchestra; Joe continued working in his band for over
two
years.
In 1976, Joe moved to Europe, where he toured and recorded in the ensemble
Hopper,
Dean, Tippet and Gallivan. In 1978 he recorded with Elton Dean and Kenny Wheeler
and toured Japan with John Scofield, Miraslov Vitous and Kenny Kirkland.
From 1979 to 1983 Joe traveled a lot, working with Charles Austin in Europe,
with
Nicholas in Hawaii, with Butch Morris in Paris, appearing in numerous
contemporary
and electronic music concerts in France and in New York City.
In 1983, in Frankfurt, Joe began a series of recordings for Hessicher Rundfunk
that
included Albert Mangelsdorf, Heinz Sauer and Christoph Lauer. He also worked in
a
duo with guitarist John Schroeder.
In 1984, Joe settled in London and organized the avant-garde big band Soldiers
of the
Road, featuring Elton Dean, Evan Parker, Marcio Mattos, and, later, Ashley
Slater,
Paul Rutherford, Jim Dvorak, Claude Deppa, and Guy Barker. This ensemble
recorded eight pieces for the BBC, performed often in London including at the
London
Jazz Festival, and, in 1992, made a critically acclaimed CD, Innocence. Joe also
recorded prolifically for the BBC with numerous other ensembles, and traveled
extensively, performing all over Europe.
In 1989, Joe began residing in Hawaii. He led a trio for five years at Pacific
O's in Lahaina, Maui, with pianist Brian Cuomo, and performed with the group Art
Off The Wall at the Honolulu Museum of Contemporary Art in 1998, 1999,and 2001
with actor Jeff Gere and sculptor/instument maker/woodwind player Steve
Rosenthal. In Hawaii, Joe established his own record label, newjazz.com. The
label's first venture, Love Cry Want, a previously unreleased 1972 recording of
the quartet Love Cry Want, (Joe Gallivan, Larry Young, Nicholas and Jimmy
Molnieri) garnered international rave reviews and was chosen as one of 20
Essential Jazz and Improvisational CD's of 1997 by The Wire, (Europe's premier
electronic and improvised music magazine, based in London) and one of seven
Albums of the Year by the German music magazine Proteus. The Penguin Guide to
Jazz, Fourth Edition (1999), devoted a section giving excellent reviews to three
CDs by Joe Gallivan, as well as a separate section praising the group and CD
Love Cry Want.
Joe made three well-received Hawaii recordings with Brian Cuomo�Night Vision
(a duet), Origin of Man, a trio with Elton Dean which received the highest
possible rating in the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, and Surrender, a trio with
San Francisco-based vocalist Jackie Ryan. In April 1999, Joe brought his trio
with Brian Cuomo and Jackie Ryan to Ronnie Scott's, Europe's most famous jazz
club, for a week, during which they played to standing room audiences every
night. The trio returned to Ronnie Scott's to play to a similarly packed room
for two weeks in March, 2000, during which they recorded a live album on Ronnie
Scott's label, which was released at their third consecutive engagement, during
the final two weeks of April, 2001.
In 1999, Joe was featured on two notable European CDs. Des Del Silenci, by Ektal
Ensemble (Joe Gallivan, Marti Perramon, Benet Palet, Abdeljalil Koddsi, Robert
Merryman, Moulay M'Hammed Ennoji) received extraordinary reviews in the Spanish
press. The group performed at the Mercat Des Flors in Barcelona, at the 1999
Madrid Jazz Festival, and at the 2001 Festival Schnittpunkte Der Musik in
Rudersdorf, Austria.
Electronic/Electric/Electronic, by the trio Powerfield (Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith
and Pat Thomas), was included twice in less than one year in a compilation CD on
the cover of The Wire (titled Wiretapper), prompting a three page interview with
Joe to appear in the September 1999 issue of The Wire. In 1999,
Electronic/Electric/Electronic was chosen as one of twenty Essential Recordings
of the Year (for 1999) by The Wire. In 2000, the trio recorded a program for BBC
Radio, and two members of the trio, Joe Gallivan and Gary Smith, released a
self-titled CD that also was chosen as an Essential Recording of the Year (for
2000) by The Wire. Two more Powerfield CDs are awaiting release: a second
Powerfield trio CD, and a larger ensemble CD, adding to the trio a quartet of
electronically processed horns played by veterans of Soldiers of the Road,
including Elton Dean, Claude Deppa, Guy Barker and Jim Dvorak.
On June 3, 2000, Joe's group The Rainforest Initiative headlined at the Bell
Atlantic Jazz Festival on the Main Stage of the Knitting Factory in New York
City�with standing room only, and a standing ovation. The piece opened with an
invocation by Hawaiian chanters Lei'ohu Ryder and Mahalani Poepoe over sounds of
the rainforest, followed by a sextet featuring saxophonists Evan Parker, Elton
Dean, Charles Austin and John McMinn, bassist Marcio Mattos, and Joe Gallivan on
drums and percussion. A video of the New York performance has been playing on
Black Entertainment Television�Jazz Network since November, 2000. In October,
2000, Joe taught a class in communication in musical performance (why and how
musicians communicate as they are playing) at the Knitting Factory, which was
produced as a video for classrooms.
August 3 and 4, 2001, Joe performed with the Ektal Ensemble (Benet Palet,
trumpet, Pat Thomas, keyboards, Abdeljalil Kodssi, vocals) at the 3
Laenderfestival in Austria.
May 25, 2002, Joe appeared at the Intersections of the Music Festival in
Deutsch-Minihof, Austria. July 24, 2002 Joe performed with the eJam in the
Viesen Jazz Festival, in Viesen, Austria. In the same month, Joe performed in a
duo with DJ Orgasmus on a TV show originating from Vienna.
May 18, 2004, Joe Gallivan performed on Minimoog in duet with trumpeter Graham
Haynes as part of the 50th Anniversary Concert for the Moog Synthesizer in New
York City. They received a standing ovation.
August 2004, Joe played in a duo with upright bassist Paul Rogers in Austria at
Festival Schnittpunkte. September 2004, Joe played drums and percussion with
Rainforest 21, a trio also featuring Neyveli S. Radhakrishna on violin and Paul
Rogers on seven string double bass.
October 2005, Joe toured Austria, Italy, Hungary and Slovenia with Rainforest
21, again with Paul Rogers,but this time with Anupriya Deotale on violin. .In
the past few years Joe also has been working in the schools and colleges in
Phoenix, Hawaii and now Los Angeles with his "the saxophone and me" project.
both playing and teaching, offering alternatives to the status quo in music,
often actually writing for and playing with school groups . Now there is LOVE
CRY WANT & the RAINFOREST INITIATIVE.
Discography of Joe Gallivan
Modern Jazz Orchestra featuring Kenny Drew (Addess) (re-issued on CD in 2001 by
V.S.O.P. Records)
At Last (Man Made) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan (released as CD in 2000)
Mindscapes (Spitball) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan (released as CD in 2000)
Expressions to the Winds (Spitball) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan (also CD in
2000)
Cruel but Fair (Compendium) with Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Keith Tippet, Joe
Gallivan (reissued on CD by One Way)
Peace On Earth (Compendium) with Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, John
McMinn, Carmen Lundy, David Deluca, Al Richardson, Marvis Martin
London(Compendium) Intercontinental Express with Joe Gallivan, Charles
Austin, Kenny Wheeler, Nick Evans, Jeff Green, Elton Dean, Ronnie Scott, Ian
Hamer, Roy Babbington, Toni Cook, Stephen Wick.
The Cheque is in the Mail (Ogun) Kenny Wheeler, Elton Dean, Joe Gallivan
Home from Home (Ogun) Charles Austin, Roy Babbington, Joe Gallivan
Mercy Dash (Atmospheres) Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Keith Tippet, Joe
Gallivan (reissued on CD by Culture Press)
There Comes A Time (RCA) Gil Evans and his Orchestra
The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (RCA)
And Around (Colin) Jean Schwarz, Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan
Surroundings (Celia) Jean Schwarz, Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan
Miami (Atmosphere) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan
The New Orchestra (Hannibal) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, Ryo Kawasaki,
Clive Stevens, Peter Ponzol, George Bishop, Gene Golden, Sabu Morales,
Wendell Hayes, Tadashi Yasunaga
Voices (Hannibal) Joe Gallivan, Charles Austin, John McMinn, Earl Lloyd
Supply and Demand (Rykodisc) Dagmar Krause, Richard Thompson, John Harle,
Danny Thompson, Joe Gallivan
Mysterious Planet (Hannibal) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, John McMinn,
Nelson Padron, Earl Lloyd
Prism (Vinyl) Peter Ponzol, Abbey Rader, Joe Gallivan
Innocence (Cadence) Joe Gallivan with Guy Barker, Elton Dean, Claude Deppa,
Jim Dvorak, Marcio Mattos, Neil Metcalf, Evan Parker, Gerard Presencer,
Paul Rutherford, Ashley Slater
Night Vision (newjazz.com) Brian Cuomo, Joe Gallivan
The Origin of Man (newjazz.com) Elton Dean, Brian Cuomo, Joe Gallivan
Surrender (newjazz.com) Jackie Ryan, Brian Cuomo, Joe Gallivan
Love Cry Want (newjazz.com) Larry Young, Joe Gallivan, Nicholas
Orchestral Meditations ( newjazz.com) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, John
McMinn
Timeless (newjazz.com) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, John McMinn, Gene
Argel, Brian Cuomo, Hector Serrano
Guitars on Mars (Virgin) Larry Young, Nicholas, Joe Gallivan
Wiretapper (November 1998), Powerfield
Wiretapper (August 1999) Powerfield
Des Del Silenci (Afro-Blue Records) Ektal Ensemble
Electronic/Electric/Electronic (Paratactile) Powerfield
Joe Gallivan/Gary Smith (Paratactile) Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith
Live At Ronnie Scott's (Ronnie Scott's) Joe Gallivan, Jackie Ryan, Brian Cuomo
Powerfield ( 2006) Powerfield
Vienna(2007)Rainforest Initiative
LA (2009) duo w/Benn Clatworthy
neonlighthouse84(2010) duo w/P Y Caplin 40 lifetimes later(2011) LOVE CRY WANT
Recorded and Live Radio Broadcasts
1977 Radio France: Two sessions with Elton Dean, Keith Tippet and Hugh
Hopper
1977 Danish Radio: Live at Club Montmartre (the most famous jazz club in
Copenhagen)
1977 Radio Bremen: Live at Stadt Theatre in Bremen
1977 Radio France: Recorded broadcast with Charles Austin
1977 Chateau Vallon Festival in Toulon, France: Intercontinental Express Big
Band
1978 Espace Cardin: Live broadcast with Charles Austin and big band from a
theatre in Paris
1980 Radio France: two broadcasts with French composer Jean Schwarz and
Charles Austin
1981 France Musique: Live broadcast
1982 France Musique: Live broadcast with Peter Ponzol
1983 Hessicher Rundfunk Jazz Ensemble broadcast
1985 BBC Radio 3: with Elton Dean
1985 Hessicher Rundfunk Jazz Ensemble broadcast
1986 Hessicher Rundfunk Jazz Ensemble broadcast with John Schroeder
1986 BBC Radio 3: Soldiers of the Road Big Band
1986 BBC Radio 3: with John Corbett
1987 BBC Radio 3: duo with Evan Parker
1987 Public TV, Miami, Florida: One hour show with Charles Austin
1987 France Musique with Nicholas
1992 BBC Radio 1: Soldiers of the Road Big Band at the London Jazz Festival
1992 BBC Radio 1: Quartet with Paul Rutherford, Jim Dvorak, Marcio Mattos.
2000 BBC Radio 3: Powerfield (Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith, Pat Thomas)
2000 to present Black Entertainment Network is broadcasting the Rainforest
Initiative taped at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York City
2001 ORF radio (Vienna): Ektal Ensemble at Festival Schnittpunkte
2003 ORF television (Vienna) Joe Gallivan and DJ Orgasmus
2004 Orange Internet Radio (Austria) Rainforest 21
-------Peace----------------Joe Gallivan