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| Bassist Karl E. H. Seigfried is a rising star on the Chicago jazz scene today. He has worked with various members of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), including Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble of Chicago), Mwata Bowden (8 Bold Souls), Billy Brimfield, and Ajaramu (aka Gerald Donovan). He performed with Peter Kowald during the German bassist’s famed solo tour of the United States (as heard on the recording E.C.F.A. from Pull the String Records) and premiered Frank Proto’s “Paganini in Metropolis” with clarinetist Eddie Daniels (Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra). He has played at jam sessions with Henry Grimes, Fred Anderson, Douglas Ewart, Fred Hopkins (Air), Kidd Jordan, and John Young. Seigfried’s own jazz groups have featured established players including Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Chicago Underground), Ernest Dawkins (New Horizons), Isaiah Spencer, Nicole Mitchell, Frank Rosaly, Keefe Jackson, Avreeayl Ra (Sun Ra Arkestra), Greg Ward, Andre Beasley, Jimmy Ellis (Yoko Noge's Jazz-Me Blues), and Phillipe Vieux (Black Note). For several years, Karl hosted the weekly Avant-Garde Jazz Jam Session with David Boykin and Mike Reed, the only one of its kind in Chicago. His festival appearances with various groups (sometimes his own) include the AFM Jazz Festival, Austin Jazz & Arts Fest, Dreamtime Records Black Future Month Jazz Festival, Asian-American Jazz Festival, Isthmus Jazz Festival, Phrenology Fest, and Texas Jazz Festival. His bass teachers were Bertram Turetzky (“the Godfather of the Modern Contrabass”), Richard Davis (bassist for Sarah Vaughan, Eric Dolphy, Leonard Bernstein, Van Morrison, etc.), and David Neubert (past president of the International Society of Bassists). His other mentors and teachers, with whom he sometimes performed, include George Lewis (MacArthur Genius and member of the classic Anthony Braxton Quartet), Jimmy Cheatham (formerly with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, etc.), Anthony Davis (composer of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X), and Carol Kaye (bassist for Quincy Jones and the classic Motown recordings). Karl's recent recordings include "Boykin, Seigfried, & Reed" (2004) and a solo bass cd called "Criminal Mastermind." Both are available from Imaginary Chicago Records.
For more information, visit his website: http://cdbaby.com/cd/seigfried For more information, visit their website: http://cdbaby.com/cd/seigfried
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