Cargo Records

• FOCUS ON: Jon Gibson

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• Label: Tzadik >>
• Genre: Avant Garde/Experimental

Since 1973 Jon Gibson has been making startlingly beautiful solo music for saxophone and flute that owes nothing to the jazz tradition.

One of the original musicians for the first generation minimalists, Jon is the only player to have been a member of the ensembles of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young and Philip Glass, with whom he has been working for over thirty years.

JON GIBSON is a composer, woodwind instrumentalist and visual artist who has taken part in numerous landmark musical events, performing in the early works of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, as well as performing with many other composers, including LaMonte Young, Christian Wolff, Alvin Curran and Peter Zummo. He has performed in the Philip Glass Ensemble since its beginnings.

His own music consists of a large body of solo and ensemble, instrumental and vocal works that have been performed by himself and others throughout the world. As a performer, Gibson appears on recordings by Glass, Reich, Frederic Rzewski, Arthur Russell, Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood and others.