Phillips, Barre
Phillips, Barre
Phillips, Barre, free-jazz bassist; b. San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 27,1934. He began playing in 1948, studying at Berkeley, then in N.Y. with Fred Zimmerman. He worked with Don Heckman, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Giuffre, and George Russell, touring Europe with Russell (1964) and Giuffre (1965). He also performed with the N.Y. Philharmonic, Marion Brown and others. Beginning around 1967, he divided his time between Europe (primarily London and Paris) and the U.S. In 1969, he started working with British saxophonist John Surman. He has recorded on his own and with Shepp, Surman, Attila Zoller, Bob James, Brown, Siegfried Kessler, Michel Portal, and Dave Holland. He spent most of the 1980s in Montreal.
Discography
For All It Is (1971); Mountainscapes (1976); Journal Violone II (1979); Die Jungen: Random Generators (1979); Camouflage (1989); Aquarian Rain (1991).
—Lewis Porter