Name Chris Speed Associated acts Orange Then Blue | Labels Skirl Instruments Saxophone
Clarinet | |
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Origin Seattle, Washington, U.S. Genres Avant-garde jazz
Free jazz
Free improvisation Role Saxophonist · chrisspeed.com Education New England Conservatory of Music Music groups The Claudia Quintet, Human Feel, Free Radicals Albums Endangered Blood, Alasnoaxis, Iffy, In Our Lifetime, Splay | ||
Occupation(s) Bandleader
Composer | ||
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Chris Speed (born Seattle, Washington, 1967) is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
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He studied classical piano from the age of five, and began clarinet at eleven. In high school he took up the tenor saxophone and began studying jazz. He later attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Speed has lived in New York City since 1992.
He leads or co-leads the groups Pachora (with Jim Black, Skúli Sverrisson, and Brad Shepik); Human Feel (with Andrew D'Angelo, Black, and Kurt Rosenwinkel); The Clarinets (with Oscar Noriega and Anthony Burr), yeah NO (with Black, Sverrisson, and Cuong Vu); Trio Iffy (with Ben Perowsky and Jamie Saft), Endangered Blood (with Black, Noriega and Trevor Dunn) and the Chris Speed Trio (with Dave King and Chris Tordini). The latter groups predominantly feature Speed's compositions.
Speed has performed with the avant-garde jazz groups Bloodcount (Tim Berne, Jim Black, Michael Formanek, and sometimes Marc Ducret); The Claudia Quintet (John Hollenbeck, Matt Moran, Ted Reichman, and Drew Gress); Alasnoaxis (Jim Black, Sverrisson, and Hilmar Jensson); and Heroic Frenzies (Craig Taborn, Dave King, and Chris Lightcap).
Chris speed trio iffy slippers 1999
As leader
with Endangered Blood:
with The Clarinets:
with Pachora:
with Human Feel:
With Tim Berne's Bloodcount
With Jim Black's AlasNoAxis
With Uri Caine
With Dave Douglas
With Erik Friedlander
With Jamie Saft
With Craig Taborn