Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells | |
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 Wells performing in 2010 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | October 13, 1958 |
| Origin | Tacoma, Washington |
| Genres | Jazz, free jazz, free improvisation, avant-garde jazz |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Bass guitar, double bass, electric upright bass |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Labels | Ayler, Musso, Red Toucan |
| Website | jairrohm |
Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells (born October 13, 1958) is an American free improvising electric bassist. He is one of the founding members of the improvising band Machine Gun with Thomas Chapin and Robert Musso and the founder of the Meeting Interdisciplinary Arts Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. He lived in Stockholm, Sweden, from 1985 until 2017.
He has been a promoter of improvised and
Buchla 100 and 200e systems at the institute. Compositions from his Liberation cycle are featured as part of res·o·nant, the light and sound installation by artist Mischa Kuball at the Jewish Museum Berlin
.
Raised in southern Germany, Jair-Rohm moved to New York in 1978. After touring the United States for a year with a pop music band, he attended
Globen Arena (Stockholm), Saxophone Jazz Pub (Bangkok, Thailand), Cafe Oto
(London, England) and the Domicil Jazz Club (Munich, Germany).
Partial discography
- Soul Home (GTC)
- Sympathy for the Donkey with 3 Banditos (Klanggold)
- AMDG (Klanggold)
- Exquisite Noise (GTC)
- Inside of Outside with Cyndi Dawson (CD Baby)
- Steamroom Variations with Decision Dream (Red Toucan)
- Meditations on Albert Ayler with the Jair-Rohm Parker Wells Trio (Ayler)
- Machine Gun with Machine Gun (Musso)
- Active Resonance with Robert Musso (Musso)
- Open Fire with Machine Gun (Musso)
- Pass the Ammo with Machine Gun (Musso)
- Personal Nuclear Device with Reeves Gabrels and Lance Carter (musician) as Doom Dogs (Musso)[1]
- The Prostitution of Meritocracy (ZH27)
- Brotherly Love in Philadelphia with the Jair-Rohm Parker Wells Trio (Ayler)
External links and references
- Official website: Bass | Jair-Rohm Parker Wells
- Decision Dream Steamroom Variations
- "Take Five With Jair-Rohm Parker Wells"
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