TRIO MUO - Glen Hall - saxes, flutes, bass clarinet; Michael Morse - bass; Joe Sorbara - percussion
EAR-CAM - woodwinds, percussion, processing; Christine Duncan, Nobuo Kubota - voices; John Oswald - alto sax; Jason Hammer - bass; Tomasz Krakowiak - electronics, minidiscs; Jean Martin - drums
SONORA - Glen Hall - woodwinds, electro-acoustics; Kye Marshall - cello; Michael Morse - bass; Rebecca van der Post - violin
HALL/RANALDO/HOOKER - Glen Hall - saxes, flutes, bass clarinet, percussion, processing; Lee Ranaldo - guitar, effects, video; William Hooker - drums
POWERBUCH - Gordon Michael Allen - trumpet; Dave Clark - drums; John Kameel Farah - piano, laptop; Glen Hall - woodwinds, percussion
RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE - Glen Hall - saxes, flutes, spoken word; Allan Bloor (a.k.a. Knurl) - bass; Bryan Dennis - drums
Influences
Sonny Rollins, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, George Russell, Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Dexter Gordon, Sam Rivers, Sun Ra, Kenny Burrell, Lenny Breau, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari, Edgar Varese, Anton Webern, Elliot Carter, Luigi Nono, Roland Kayn, Leo Kupper, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Tom Waits, Kinks, Yardbirds, Pretty Things, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Idries Shah, Dr. Robert Ornstein, ISHK, William S. Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, J.G. Ballard, Cormac McCarthy, Frederico Fellini, Alejandro Jodorowski, Bahaudin Naqshband, Brion Gysin
Sounds Like
mostly sounds like Glen Hall but with bits of Sonny Rollins, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Sam Rivers, Sun Ra, Muddy Waters, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari, Edgar Varese, Anton Webern, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Brian Eno
Glen Hall has developed an international reputation as a composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist. He plays tenor/soprano saxes, flute, alto and bass flutes, piccolo, bass clarinet, and percussion. He recorded The Mother of the Book with such luminaries as Gil Evans and the percussion virtuoso group NEXUS as well as The Book of the Heart with Joanne Brackeen, Billy Hart, Cecil McBee and Joshua Breakstone. Twice nominated for Juno awards, Jazz Report has called Hall "Canada’s best kept secret", and the Globe and Mail has said that he is "aggressively contemporary…Hall has all the marks of an original mind."
Glen has performed and/recorded with an astonishingly diverse range of musicians from jazz giants like clarinetists Jimmy Guiffre and Phil Nimmons, guitarists John Scofield and Ed Bickert, trombonists Ray Anderson and Roswell Rudd, and drummers Ed Blackwell and Claude Ranger, to new music heavies percussionist Christoph Caskell and bassist Fernando Grillo, to improv greats Plunderphonics’ John Oswald and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo. He has attended the Berklee College of Music and studied composition in Germany with Gyorgy Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel. He currently leads four groups: free jazz Trio Muo, sound art EAR-CAM, noise/jazz Ridge of High Pressure, and improv chamber quartet SONOra, and is a member of several other groups.
DISCOGRAPHY: The Book of the Heart (JoAnne Brackeen, Billy Hart, Cecil McBee, Joshua Breakstone); The Mother of the Book (Gil Evans, NEXUS, Terry Clarke, Trichy Sankaran, Eugene Amaro et al.); Hallucinations: Music and Words for William S. Burroughs (Roswell Rudd, Handslang,Don Thompson, Barry Elmes et al.), The Roswell Incident (Roswell Rudd, OutSource); Oasis of Whispers (Lee Ranaldo, William Hooker); Wobble (Ray Anderson, Gerry Hemingway, Lee Ranaldo); Angles (Trio Muo); Here to Go (EAR-CAM); Strophe (SONOra); Powerbuch (Powerbuch); Toronto Duets (Eugene Martynec); Open the Way (EAR-CAM); Revibing Giuseppi Logan (Geordie McDonald); The Woodchoppers Association et Jah Youssouf
I have finally hit the road on a busking tour to raise money for War Child, Coast-to-coast – 50 cities – ALL PROCEEDS TO WARCHILD. Why? 66% of all war victims are CHILDREN. Shocked like me? War Child helps these children that have been affected by war. Check out the new blog – the whole story is up there. Love to have you be a part of it.
You’ll find a Blog, Tour page and a Bio page. I’ll be blogging daily from the road.
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