Allan Chase
Jazz Studies, Music History and Musicology; Chair, Contemporary Improvisation; Acting Chair, Liberal Arts
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Jazz and classical saxophonist Allan Chase has performed with Alan Dawson, Teddy Kotick, Mick Goodrick, Lewis Nash, Fred Hersch, and Andrew Cyrille. Chase’s debut recording with his own quartet, Dark Clouds with Silver Linings, was chosen as one of the top ten jazz CDs of 1995 by critics for the Boston Globe, Jazziz, and the Boston Phoenix. His second CD, Phoenix, was released in 2000. From 1981 to 1995, he was a member of Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet, which recorded six CDs and performed on 10 European concert tours. Since 1992, Chase has been a member of Rashied Ali’s quintet, Prima Materia, and has recorded four CDs with him. He has also performed chamber music with Marimolin and the Princeton Composers’ Ensemble. Chase has recorded with his own quartet and with Gunther Schuller, John Zorn, Dominique Eade, and Stanley Cowell, and has done studio recordings for feature films, popular music records, television, radio, and advertisements.
B.M. Arizona State University; M.A., Tufts University. Studies at NEC with Joe Allard, and at Creative Music Studio with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Karl Berger, George Lewis. Former faculty of Tufts University and Berklee College of Music. Recordings on Coppens, Knitting Factory Works, Catalyst/BMG, Accurate, GM, Bridge, Cadence Jazz, YOUR Records, Northeastern.
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