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Alan Silva (22 Jan 1939 - )

Male Person - United States free jazz double bassist

Releases (3)

Official

Album

  1. Skilfullness 1969
  2. Inner Song - Pieces For Bass And Voice 1974
  3. Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra 2001

Relationships (7)

Conductor For

  1. Alan Silva and The Celestrial Communication Orchestra

Founded

  1. Alan Silva and The Celestrial Communication Orchestra

Member Of

  1. William Parker Bass Quartet original, bass
  2. Alan Silva and The Celestrial Communication Orchestra original, eponymous, bass, synthesizer, sarangi, violin
  3. Andrew Hill Trio bass
  4. Schlippenbach Quartet double bass
  5. Abdelhaï Bennani Trio synthesizer, piano

Recordings by (11)

  1. Skilfullness 23:45 (1969)
  2. Solestrial 14:44 (1969)
  3. East Side Snaps 10:00 (1974)
  4. Untimeliness 9:00 (1974)
  5. Kedo, Kedo 3:00 (1974)
  6. Danse Of The 21st Century 11:00 (1974)
  7. Inner Song 10:00 (1974)
  8. I 21:26 (2001)
  9. II 17:56 (2001)
  10. III 13:14 (2001)
  11. [interview] 2:02 (2011)

On Recordings (50)

Instruments

  1. Tales (8 Whisps) 7:12 Cecil Taylor (1966) double bass
  2. Unit Structure / As of a Now / Section 17:45 Cecil Taylor (1966) double bass
  3. Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) 11:05 Cecil Taylor (1966) double bass
  4. Steps 10:19 Cecil Taylor (1966) double bass
  5. Omega Is the Alpha 10:30 Albert Ayler (1967) double bass
  6. Light in Darkness 10:58 Albert Ayler (1967) double bass
  7. Spiritual Rebirth 4:10 Albert Ayler (1967) double bass
  8. Conquistador 17:57 Cecil Taylor (1967) bass
  9. Infinite Spirit 6:36 Albert Ayler (1967) double bass
  10. With (Exit) 19:21 Cecil Taylor (1967) bass
  11. Heavenly Home 8:53 Albert Ayler (1967) double bass
  12. Change Has Come 6:25 Albert Ayler (1967) double bass
  13. For John Coltrane 13:39 Albert Ayler (1967) double bass
  14. Communications #11, Part 1 15:32 The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1968) bass
  15. Ghosts 2:49 Albert Ayler (1968) double bass
  16. Universal Indians 9:46 Albert Ayler (1968) double bass
  17. Dancing Flowers 2:22 Albert Ayler (1968) double bass
  18. Communications #9 8:14 The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1968) bass
  19. Communications #11, Part 2 18:14 The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1968) bass
  20. Communications #8 14:03 The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1968) bass
  21. Preview 3:29 The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1968) bass
  22. Communications #10 13:42 The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1968) bass
  23. Love Flower 3:32 Albert Ayler (1968) double bass
  24. Omega 3:17 Albert Ayler (1968) double bass
  25. Zion Hill 6:07 Albert Ayler (1968) double bass
  26. Love Cry 3:55 Albert Ayler (1968) double bass
  27. Peace 21:30 Dave Burrell (1969) bass
  28. Echo 20:02 Dave Burrell (1969) bass
  29. After Love, Part 2: Random 7:03 Dave Burrell (1971) cello, electric cello, violin
  30. Brotherhood at Ketchaoua 15:58 Archie Shepp (1971) double bass
  31. After Love, Part 1: Questions and Answers 21:42 Dave Burrell (1971) cello, electric cello, violin
  32. We Have Come Back (Part 2) 23:30 Archie Shepp (1971) double bass
  33. We Have Come Back (Part 1) 7:00 Archie Shepp (1971) double bass
  34. My March 22:03 Dave Burrell (1971) cello, electric cello, violin
  35. Student Studies, Part 2 10:59 Cecil Taylor (1973) bass
  36. Amplitude 19:45 Cecil Taylor (1973) bass
  37. Student Studies, Part 1 16:00 Cecil Taylor (1973) bass
  38. Niggle Feuigle 12:06 Cecil Taylor (1973) bass
  39. Alexander’s Marschbefehl 7:10 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  40. Tetterettet V + VI 4:53 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  41. Kwik Kwek Kwak 3:17 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  42. Tetterettet XII 1:03 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  43. Tetterettet IX 4:36 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  44. Ludwig’s Blue Note 4:51 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  45. Valse Trouvée 2:31 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  46. Tetterettet XV 6:41 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  47. Rumboon 3:34 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  48. Tetterettet XIV 7:24 I.C.P.-Tentet (1977) bass
  49. For Cecil Taylor: Almost Anacrusis / Conversation / New Slow Dance 19:55 Bill Dixon (1980) double bass
  50. Firenze 4:45 Bill Dixon (1980) double bass

Credited as (11)

  1. Alan Silva
  2. Burton Greene & Alan Silva
  3. Allen / Drake / Jordan / Parker / Silva
  4. Alan Silva, Johannes Bauer, Roger Turner
  5. Alan Silva & William Parker
  6. Alan Silva, Roger Turner, Misha Lobko, Didier Petit & Bruno Girard
  7. Abdelhaï Bennani, Alan Silva, Burton Greene, Chris Henderson
  8. Alan Silva, Itaru Oki, Makoto Sato & Richard Comte
  9. Alan Silva / Kidd Jordan / William Parker
  10. William Parker with Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter & Alan Silva
  11. Celestrial Communication Orchestra conducted by Alan Silva

Works (54)

Composed

  1. Figures Standing in the Door
  2. Eternal Flower
  3. End of Famina
  4. Vermeer
  5. Acrosses Rain
  6. Sonnet for Armstrong
  7. Encounter #1
  8. Encounter #2
  9. Encounter #3
  10. Emancipation Suite #1, Part I: To Free From Bondage
  11. Emancipation Suite #1, Part II: Deliverance
  12. Emancipation Suite #1, Part III: Freedom
  13. Emancipation Suite #1, Part IV: Independence
  14. Emancipation Suite #1, Part V: Liberation
  15. Emancipation Suite #1: Coda
  16. I
  17. II
  18. III
  19. IV
  20. V
  21. Standard 6
  22. Standard 7
  23. Standard 8
  24. Standard 9
  25. Standard 1
  26. Standard 2
  27. Standard 3
  28. Standard 4
  29. Standard 5
  30. I
  31. II
  32. III
  33. IV
  34. V
  35. VI
  36. Ore
  37. Anticlockwise
  38. Amplitude I
  39. Amplitude II
  40. Amplitude III
  41. Amplitude IV
  42. HR57 I
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Orchestrated

  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V
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Published

  1. Encounter #1
  2. Encounter #2
  3. Encounter #3
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Events (4)

Main Performer At

  1. Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2002
  2. Total Music Meeting 1999: William Parker with… piano
  3. The Fourth Annual Vision Festival, Saturday May 29 time
  4. Total Music Meeting 1999: William Parker with… synthesizer

Links (12)

Official Homepages

  1. http://www.center-of-the-world.de/

Other Databases

  1. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138997765
  2. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/alan-silva
  3. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81150470
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81150470
  5. https://d-nb.info/gnd/134689372

Songkick

  1. https://www.songkick.com/artists/265764

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/258127

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000608714

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/66653049

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2636848

Discography Pages

  1. http://www.mindspring.com/~scala/silva.htm