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Garrett List

Originating from Phoenix, Arizona, Garrett List is a composer, performer and teacher. Graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School of Music (New York), he left his trombonist’s mark on New-York’s musical life from 1965 to 1980. He soon became a leader in the growing new music world performing with the likes of John Cage and friends, the Juilliard Ensemble, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Frederic Ryzewski, Karl Berger’s “Creative Music Studio”, MEV in its NYC version

 

Originating from Phoenix, Arizona, Garrett List is a composer, performer and teacher. Graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School of Music (New York), he left his trombonist’s mark on New-York’s musical life from 1965 to 1980. He soon became a leader in the growing new music world performing with the likes of John Cage and friends, the Juilliard Ensemble, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Frederic Ryzewski, Karl Berger’s “Creative Music Studio”, MEV in its NYC version

 

Fire & Ice
**Original 1982 copies, still sealed and log time stored (copies may have minimal wear on covers)**  Intriguingly sets the apocalyptic Robert Frost poem, with trumpeter Yousef Yancy as the ice and Garrett List as the fire. Haunting settings of vital dada poet Blaise Cendrars' incandescent lines and Sweetness, an ineffably lovely poem by Bayard Lancaster, whose alto parallels soaring synthesizer parabolas, and the riveting voice of Genie Sherman, whose sinuous, sibilant messages are those of pure…
Desert Plants
**Essential reading!** Walter Zimmermann interviews Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jim Burton, Phil Glass, Steve Reich, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Joan La Barbara, Pauline Oliveros, David Rosenboom, Richard Teitelbaum, Larry Austin, James Tenney, J. B. Floyd (about Conlon Nancarrow), La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine, Charles Morrow, Garrett List, John Mc Guire and Ben Johnston (about Harry Partch).
Your Own Self
Garrett List’s work for Opus One, in 1972, was a remarkable creative effort, conceived like a celebration of a higher self-consciousness. The context is avant-garde minimalism, but the music is enriched by a deep spiritualism; it echoes the most meditative jazz of the age, taking also advantage from the mystic lesson of La Monte Young. Everything is solved in a free, moderate and brilliant language, pure and elegant. It’s quintessential, in these rare moments of beauty, the instrumentation of th…
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