Vinny Golia

Artist: Vinny Golia

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Born: 1956, New York, NY [The Bronx]
Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
Genres: Jazz
Instrument: Reeds
Representative Albums: "Dante No Longer Repents", "Portland, 1996", "Clarinet

Biography

Since 1971, when multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia gave up painting to pursue music full time, he has worked internationally as a composer, bandleader, and performer in jazz and other creative musics. Golia draws influences from jazz, world music, and contemporary classical music, and has performed in Europe, Japan, and North America in a multitude of ensembles. He plays 20 different woodwinds (as well as some ethnic aerophones), has placed many times in the Downbeat critic's poll on various instruments, and in 1990 won the Jazz Times' Talent Deserving Wider Recognition award for his bass saxophone playing. Golia is also involved in other arts and media besides jazz and improvised music: he has composed for ballet, modern dance works, theater, video, and films such as Serpent's Lair and Blood and Concrete. Golia's label, Nine Winds Records (formed in 1977), focuses on releasing music from North America's West Coast. ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide

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Discography: Vinny Golia

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Wikipedia: Vinny Golia

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Vinny Golia (b. The Bronx, New York City, New York, March 1, 1946) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation.

Golia lives in Los Angeles, California and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. He has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan. In 1982 he founded the 37-piece Vinny Golia Large Ensemble to perform his compositions.

Golia has performed and/or recorded with many notable musicians, including Anthony Braxton, Henry Grimes, John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Joëlle Léandre, Wadada Leo Smith, Horace Tapscott, John Zorn, Tim Berne, Bertram Turetzky, George Lewis, Barre Phillips, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Patti Smith, Harry "the Hipster" Gibson, Eugene Chadbourne, Kevin Ayers, Andrea Centazzo, Peter Kowald, John Bergamo, George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, Misha Mengelberg, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Lydia Lunch, Harry Sparnaay, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

Golia also founded the jazz record label Nine Winds in 1977.

Instruments

Golia performs on a wide array of instruments, which include:

Flutes
- Piccolo (D-flat)
- G flute
- C flute
- Alto flute
- Bass flute
- Contrabass flute
- Ney
- Wooden flutes
English horn
Clarinets
- A-flat clarinet
- E-flat clarinet
- B-flat clarinet
- A clarinet
- Alto clarinet
- Bass clarinet
- Contra-alto clarinet
- Contrabass clarinet
saxophones
- Soprillo
- Sopranino saxophone
- Soprano saxophone
- Saxello
- Stritch (straight alto saxophone)
- Tenor saxophone
- Baritone saxophone
- Bass saxophone
- Tubax
Bassoon
- Contrabassoon
Tarogato

External links

Vinny Golia official site
Vinny Golia page from Nine Winds Records site
Vinny Golia page from old Nine Winds Records site
Vinny Golia faculty page from California Institute of the Arts site
Vinny Golia page from Redline Park
"A Fireside Chat With Vinny Golia, by Fred Jung, from All About Jazz site (2005)
Vinny Golia interview from JazzoSphère site
Duet with Mark Trayle and group improv 3/00
Solo performance 7/00

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