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| genre = Afro-Cuban music, Latin jazz, funk, rock, blues, avant-garde jazz, [[downtown music]]
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'''Kip Hanrahan''' (born December 9, 1954) is an American [[jazz]] music [[impresario]], record producer and percussionist.
'''Kip Hanrahan''' (born December 9, 1954) is an American [[jazz]] music [[impresario]], record producer and percussionist.


==Biography==
==Personal life==
Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the [[Bronx]] to an Irish-[[Jewish]] family.<ref>[http://www.americanclave.com/1-kip.html American Clavé Bio]</ref> He has an unusual role in the albums released under his name, one which he has analogized to that of a film director. He assembles players and materials, combining modern/avant-garde/free jazz figures like [[Don Pullen]] and [[Steve Swallow]], Latin jazz players such as [[Milton Cardona]] and [[Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez]], and occasionally rock musicians like [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], [[Jack Bruce]], [[Grayson Hugh]], and [[Fernando Saunders]].
Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the [[Bronx]] to an Irish-[[Jewish]] family.<ref name="clavebio">[http://www.americanclave.com/1-kip.html American Clavé Bio]</ref> His father left when he was 6 months old, leaving his mother and grandfather to raise him. He has described his grandfather as "this cynical Russian communist" whose approval of rebellion against authority he cites as among his early musical influences.<ref name="timesOutsider">{{cite news |last1=Zwerin |first1=Mike |title=The 'Outsider' With a Passion for Sound (Published 1991) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/09/business/worldbusiness/IHT-the-outsider-with-a-passion-for-sound.html |access-date=11 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=9 August 1991}}</ref>


While attending [[Cooper Union]] on a scholarship, he studied with visual-conceptual artist [[Hans Haacke]]. He has cited Haacke as his strongest influence. As part of his university study, he traveled to [[North Africa]], and lived in [[India]] for a year.<ref name="globe" />
He produced a number of significant recordings by the [[nuevo tango]] master [[Ástor Piazzolla]] in the last decade of Piazzolla's life, as well as recordings by Latin music figures including [[Jerry Gonzalez]]. Hanrahan also worked with the poet [[Ishmael Reed]] on three recordings with the Conjure Ensemble, featuring [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]] on the first release. These side projects were not the only poetry-based discs: ''Darn It'' from 1994 celebrates the work of [[Paul Haines (poet)|Paul Haines]].<ref name="AM">{{cite web|title =Kip Hanrahan: Biography |publisher=Allmusic |url ={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6662|pure_url=yes}} | accessdate =2010-03-24}}</ref>

In the 1970s he moved to Paris, France to work on films with {{ill|Michel Contat|fr}}, [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Jean-Luc Godard]]. In his work as a composer, bandleader, and producer, he has compared his role to that of a film director, saying "Making a record is like making a film. If anything, the analogy holds too true. The recording engineer becomes the cinematographer; I work with the musicians as I would with actors: You sing the lines the way they should be phrased; you shoot scenes and the scenes are not in sequential order, and every scene has a different light and sound."<ref name="globe">{{cite news |last1=Gonzalez |first1=Fernando |title=Kip Hanrahan's Background: Everything But Music |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/439760177/?terms=Kip%20Hanrahan&match=1 |access-date=7 December 2020 |work=The Boston Globe |date=29 October 1989 |page=205 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
He has an unusual role in the albums released under his name, one which he has analogized to that of a film director. He assembles players and materials, combining modern/avant-garde/free jazz figures like [[David Murray (saxophonist)|David Murray]], [[Don Pullen]] and [[Steve Swallow]], Latin jazz players such as [[Milton Cardona]] and [[Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez]], and occasionally rock musicians like [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], [[Grayson Hugh]], [[Fernando Saunders]], and [[Jack Bruce]].

He produced a number of significant recordings by the [[nuevo tango]] master [[Astor Piazzolla]] in the last decade of Piazzolla's life,<ref name="uncertainty" /> as well as recordings by Latin music figures including [[Jerry Gonzalez]]. Hanrahan also worked with the poet [[Ishmael Reed]] on three recordings with the Conjure Ensemble, featuring [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]] on the first release.<ref name="uncertainty">{{cite news |last1=Weiss |first1=Jason |title=A Producer Who Courts Uncertainty (Published 1994) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/06/archives/a-producer-who-courts-uncertainty.html |access-date=3 January 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 November 1994}}</ref> The Conjure projects were not the only poetry-based albums. ''Darn It,'' a double CD released in 1993, gathered music to the poems of [[Paul Haines (poet)|Paul Haines]]<ref name="AM">{{cite web|title =Kip Hanrahan: Biography |publisher=Allmusic |url ={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p6662|pure_url=yes}} | access-date =2010-03-24}}</ref> that Hanrahan had compiled over the past seven years since 1986, with contributions by a wide-ranging group of session musicians like [[Derek Bailey (guitarist)|Derek Bailey]] singing, duos by [[Evan Parker]] with [[Robert Wyatt]] and [[Carmen Lundy]], [[Alex Chilton]] with a piano trio around [[Wayne Horvitz]], [[Mary Margaret O'Hara]] with [[Gary Lucas]] and Steve Swallow, and [[John Oswald (composer)|John Oswald]] playing alto saxophone alongside fellow Canadian and multimedia artist Michael Snow, who also provided the cover and booklet design.<ref>Album credits.</ref>


==Discography==
==Discography==
All albums were released on Hanrahan's American Clavé label.
* ''Coup de tête'' (1981)

* ''[[Develops An Edge]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Vertical's Currency]]'' (1984)
* ''Coup de Tête'' (1981)
* ''A Few Short Notes for the End Run'' (1986)
* ''[[Desire Develops an Edge]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Days and Nights Of Blue Luck Inverted]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Vertical's Currency]]'' (1985)
* ''A Few Short Notes for the End Run'' (EP, 1986)
* ''[[Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Tenderness (Kip Hanrahan album)|Tenderness]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Tenderness (Kip Hanrahan album)|Tenderness]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Exotica (Kip Hanrahan Album) | Exotica]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Exotica (Kip Hanrahan Album)|Exotica]]'' (1993)
* ''[[All Roads Are Made of the Flesh]]'' (1995)
* ''Paul Haines – Darn It!'' (1993)
* ''[[All Roads Are Made of the Flesh]]'' (live and studio recordings, 1995)
* ''A Thousand Nights and a Night (1 - Red Nights)'' (1996)
* ''A Thousand Nights and a Night (1 - Red Nights)'' (1996)
* ''A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 1)'' (1998)
* ''A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 1)'' (1998)
* ''A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 2)'' (1999)
* ''A Thousand Nights and a Night (Shadow Nights 2)'' (1999)
* ''Drawn From Memory (Greatest Hits or Whatever)'' (2001)
* ''Drawn from Memory (Greatest Hits or Whatever)'' (Compilation, 2001)
* ''Original music from the soundtrack to [[Piñero]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Original Music from the Soundtrack to Piñero]]'' (2002)
* ''Beautiful Scars'' (2007)
* ''Beautiful Scars'' (2007)
* ''At Home in Anger'' (2011)
* ''At Home in Anger'' (2011)
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* [http://www.americanclave.com/ "American Clavé"] - Kip Hanrahan's record label
* [http://www.americanclave.com/ "American Clavé"] - Kip Hanrahan's record label
* [http://hanrahan.free.fr/ "Kip Hanrahan non official site"] - French Fan Web Site in English
* [http://hanrahan.free.fr/ "Kip Hanrahan non official site"] - French Fan Web Site in English
* [https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1982-03-09_11_10/page/n60/mode/1up ''The Boston Phoenix'' review of ''Coup de Tête'', 1981]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/9j54/ BBC review of ''Beautiful Scars'', 2007]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/9j54/ BBC review of ''Beautiful Scars'', 2007]


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Latest revision as of 19:23, 5 August 2024

Kip Hanrahan
Born (1954-12-09) December 9, 1954 (age 69)
Bronx, New York City
GenresAfro-Cuban music, Latin jazz, funk, rock, blues, avant-garde jazz, downtown music
Occupation(s)Musician
Record producer
Composer-arranger-conductor
InstrumentPercussion
LabelsAmerican Clavé

Kip Hanrahan (born December 9, 1954) is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist.

Personal life

[edit]

Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an Irish-Jewish family.[1] His father left when he was 6 months old, leaving his mother and grandfather to raise him. He has described his grandfather as "this cynical Russian communist" whose approval of rebellion against authority he cites as among his early musical influences.[2]

While attending Cooper Union on a scholarship, he studied with visual-conceptual artist Hans Haacke. He has cited Haacke as his strongest influence. As part of his university study, he traveled to North Africa, and lived in India for a year.[3]

In the 1970s he moved to Paris, France to work on films with Michel Contat [fr], Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean-Luc Godard. In his work as a composer, bandleader, and producer, he has compared his role to that of a film director, saying "Making a record is like making a film. If anything, the analogy holds too true. The recording engineer becomes the cinematographer; I work with the musicians as I would with actors: You sing the lines the way they should be phrased; you shoot scenes and the scenes are not in sequential order, and every scene has a different light and sound."[3]

Career

[edit]

He has an unusual role in the albums released under his name, one which he has analogized to that of a film director. He assembles players and materials, combining modern/avant-garde/free jazz figures like David Murray, Don Pullen and Steve Swallow, Latin jazz players such as Milton Cardona and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and occasionally rock musicians like Sting, Grayson Hugh, Fernando Saunders, and Jack Bruce.

He produced a number of significant recordings by the nuevo tango master Astor Piazzolla in the last decade of Piazzolla's life,[4] as well as recordings by Latin music figures including Jerry Gonzalez. Hanrahan also worked with the poet Ishmael Reed on three recordings with the Conjure Ensemble, featuring Taj Mahal on the first release.[4] The Conjure projects were not the only poetry-based albums. Darn It, a double CD released in 1993, gathered music to the poems of Paul Haines[5] that Hanrahan had compiled over the past seven years since 1986, with contributions by a wide-ranging group of session musicians like Derek Bailey singing, duos by Evan Parker with Robert Wyatt and Carmen Lundy, Alex Chilton with a piano trio around Wayne Horvitz, Mary Margaret O'Hara with Gary Lucas and Steve Swallow, and John Oswald playing alto saxophone alongside fellow Canadian and multimedia artist Michael Snow, who also provided the cover and booklet design.[6]

Discography

[edit]

All albums were released on Hanrahan's American Clavé label.

With Conjure

  • Conjure: Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed (1985)
  • Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon (1988)
  • Bad Mouth (2006)

References

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  1. ^ American Clavé Bio
  2. ^ Zwerin, Mike (August 9, 1991). "The 'Outsider' With a Passion for Sound (Published 1991)". The New York Times. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Gonzalez, Fernando (October 29, 1989). "Kip Hanrahan's Background: Everything But Music". The Boston Globe. p. 205. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Weiss, Jason (November 6, 1994). "A Producer Who Courts Uncertainty (Published 1994)". The New York Times. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  5. ^ "Kip Hanrahan: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved March 24, 2010.
  6. ^ Album credits.
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