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Other people2|John Abercrombie (disambiguation)Infobox musical artist | name = John Abercrombie| image = John abercrombie.jpg| caption = John Abercrombie at Bratislava Jazz Days 2007| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = John Abercrombie| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1944|12|16|df=y| birth_place = Port Chester, New York , United States|USA | death_date =| death_place =| instrument = Guitar | genre = Cool jazz|Progressive jazz , jazz fusion , post bop | occupation = Musician| years_active =| label =| associated_acts = Billy Cobham , Jack DeJohnette , Brecker Brothers | website =| notable_instruments = John Abercrombie (born December 16, 1944)cite book|last=Robinson|first=J. Bradford|title=The new Grove dictionary of jazz|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|coauthors=Kernfeld, Barry|editor=Barry Kernfeld|pages=4-5|chapter=Abercrombie, John (Laird) is an American jazz guitarist, whose work often explores jazz fusion and post bop . Abercrombie has played with Billy Cobham , Jack DeJohnette , Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker . Abercrombie has recorded principally with the Manfred Eicher 's ECM Records|ECM label; his first notable recordings were two albums with the jazz fusion|jazz-rock band Dreams (band)|Dreams in 1970.
Abercrombie attended the Berklee College of Music from 1962 to 1966 and graduated from in 1967. He later studied at the University of North Texas College of Music . Abercrombie, John (Laird) , Oxford Music Online In 1998, the Berklee College of Music presented him Music Distinguished Alumni Award.
The ongoing groups he has led or co-led include:
Gateway, with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette (mid-1970s, and again mid-1990s)
duo with guitarist Ralph Towner (starting mid-1970s, occasionally through mid-1990s)
quartet with pianist Richie Beirach , bassist George Mraz , and drummer Peter Donald (late 1970s to early 1980s)
trio with bassist Marc Johnson (musician)|Marc Johnson and drummer Peter Erskine (mid-1980s to early 1990s)
trio with organist Dan Wall and drummer Adam Nussbaum (through 1990s)
quartet with violinist Mark Feldman , bassist Marc Johnson (musician)|Marc Johnson , and drummer Joey Baron (starting 2000)
New Directions (DeJohnette)|New Directions (ECM, 1978)
With Jan Garbarek
Eventyr (ECM, 1980)
With Bobby Hutcherson
Un Poco Loco (album)|Un Poco Loco (1979)
With Andy LaVerne
Nosmo King (1994)
Now It Can Be Played (1995)
Where We Were (1996)
A Nice Idea (2006)
With Dave Liebman
Lookout Farm (album)|Lookout Farm (ECM, 1973)
With Charles Lloyd
Voice in the Night (ECM, 1999)
The Water is Wide (ECM, 2000)
Hyperion with Higgins (ECM, 2001)
Lift Every Voice (Charles Lloyd album)|Lift Every Voice (ECM, 2002)
With Czeslaw Niemen
''Mourner's Rhapsody (1974)
With Jeff Palmer
Ease On (1993, Sledgehammer Blues (formerly AudioQuest Music)cite web |url= http://www.valley-entertainment.com/ease-on-1.html |title=Ease On |work=Valley Entertainment-Sledgehammer Blues |accessdate=17 June 2010)
Landmarks (Joe Lovano album)|Landmarks (1991) Joe Lovano with Ken Werner, Marc Johnson and Bill Stewart
Double Variations (1990) Tim Brady
Brooklyn Blues (1991) Danny Gottlieb with Jeremy Steig, Gil Golstein, Chip Jackson
Electricity (1994) with Bob Brookmeyer and the WDR Big Band
Bush Crew (1995, Sledgehammer Blues (formerly AudioQuest Music)cite web |url= http://www.valley-entertainment.com/the-bush-crew-1.html |title=The Bush Crew |work=Valley Entertainment-Sledgehammer Blues |accessdate=17 June 2010) Les Arbuckle, Mike Stern, Essiet Okon Essiet, Victor Lewis
Standard Transmission (1997) Pat LaBarbera, Jim Vivian, Jacek Kochan
Off the Wall (1997) (under pseudonym Lester LaRue) with Dan Wall
Speak Easy (1999) with Jarek Smietana
The Hudson Project (2000) Peter Erskine, John Patitucci & Bob Mintzer
Animations (2003) with John Basile
As We Speak (2006) Mark Egan trio with Danny Gottlieb
Baseline: The Guitar Album (2007) with Hein van de Geyn
Topics (2007) with John Ruocco
Robert Balzar Trio: Tales (recorded 2006, released 2008)
http://www.jazzchicago.net/reviews/johnaber.html Review of the Third Quartet at JazzChicago.net
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=15121704 John Abercrombie at NPR Music
http://homespun.powerusermedia.com/Homespun_Tapes/VD-ABE-GT01_Guitar2.wmv John Abercromoble instructional video introduction from Homespun Tapes
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