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Dave Burrell
Burrell in 2007
Background information
Birth name	Herman Davis Burrell
Born	(1940-09-10)September 10, 1940 (age 84) Middletown, Ohio, U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Instrument	Piano
Years active	1970s–present
Website	daveburrell.com

Herman Davis "Dave" Burrell (born September 10, 1940)^[1] is an Americanjazz pianist. He has played with many jazz musicians includingArchie Shepp,Pharoah Sanders,Marion Brown andDavid Murray.

Born inMiddletown, Ohio, United States,^[1] Burrell grew fond of jazz at a young age after meetingHerb Jeffries.^[2] Burrell studied music at theUniversity of Hawaii from 1958 to 1960,^[1] then, beginning in 1961, attended theBerklee College of Music in Boston, graduating with degrees in composition/arranging and performance in 1965.^[3] While in Boston, he played withTony Williams andSam Rivers.^[1]

In 1965, Burrell moved to New York City, where he worked and recorded withGrachan Moncur III,Marion Brown, andPharoah Sanders.^[2] He also started the Untraditional Jazz Improvisational Team with saxophonistByard Lancaster, bassistSirone, and drummerBobby Kapp.^[1] In 1968, Burrell co-foundedThe 360 Degree Music Experience with Grachan Moncur III andBeaver Harris^[1] and recorded two albums with the group. The following year, Burrell began an association withArchie Shepp,^[1] with whom he would play the 1969 Pan-African Festival in Algiers,^[4] and with whom he would go on to record nearly twenty albums.

Burrell's first album as a leader wasHigh Won-High Two (1968), produced by Alan Douglas.Echo andLa Vie de Bohème were recorded forBYG Actuel in Paris in 1969. He recordedRound Midnight forNippon Columbia.

In 1978 he composed a jazzopera entitledWindward Passages, in collaboration with Swedish poet and lyricist Monika Larsson, with an album of the same name, based on the opera, released in 1979 onHathut in Switzerland. Their touring and recording collaborations resulted inDaybreak (1989),Brother to Brother (1992),In Concert (1992), andWindward Passages (1993). Burrell appears on Murray'sDIW albumsLovers,Deep River,Ballads,Spirituals,Tenors,Remembrances, andPicasso, recorded between 1988 and 1993.

Burrell tours and performs as a soloist and as a leader of a duo, trio, and larger ensembles. He recorded for the High Two label fromPhiladelphia. His 2004 albumExpansion (with bassistWilliam Parker and drummerAndrew Cyrille) was acclaimed byNPR,Down Beat,Village Voice,JazzTimes,The Wire, and others. Splasc Records (Italy) released a studio solo piano recording,Margy Pargy in 2005. In 2006, Burrell releasedConsequences, a live duet set withMedeski, Martin & Wood drummerBilly Martin, andMomentum, featuring bassistMichael Formanek and drummerGuillermo E. Brown. RAI Trade (Italy) recorded a concert of Burrell and Larsson's collaborations,Dave Burrell Plays His Songs, featuring singer Leena Conquest, which was released in 2010.

In 2022, it was announced that Burrell had donated his archive to the Center for American Music in the University of Pittsburgh Library System.^[5]

WithAlbert Ayler

• Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70) (Revenant, 2004): one track

WithMarion Brown

• Three for Shepp (Impulse!, 1966)
• Juba-Lee (Fontana, 1967)
• 79118 Live (DIW, 1979)
• Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 (NoBusiness Records, 2018)
• Capricorn Moon to Juba Lee Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2019)

WithStanley Cowell

• Questions / Answers (Trio Records, 1974)

WithHenry Grimes,Roberto Pettinato, andTyshawn Sorey

• Purity (Sony, 2012)
• Same Egg (Sony, 2013)

With Duo Baars-Henneman

• Trandans (Wig, 2017)

WithNoah Howard

• At Judson Hall (ESP-Disk, 1968)

WithKhan Jamal

• Speak Easy (Gazell, 1989)

WithStafford James

• Jazz a Confronto 26 (Horo Records, 1976)

WithGiuseppi Logan

• The Giuseppi Logan Quintet (Tompkins Square, 2010)

WithGrachan Moncur III

• New Africa (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• Shadows (Denon, 1977)

WithDavid Murray

• Hope Scope (Black Saint, 1987)
• Ballads (DIW, 1988)
• Deep River (DIW, 1988)
• Spirituals (DIW, 1988)
• Lovers (DIW, 1988)
• Tenors (DIW, 1988)
• Lucky Four (Tutu, 1989)
• Last of the Hipmen (Jazzline, 1989)
• Remembrances (DIW, 1990)
• Death of a Sideman (DIW, 1991)
• In Concert (Victo, 1991)
• Picasso (DIW, 1992)

WithSunny Murray

• Homage to Africa (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• Sunshine (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• Charred Earth (Kharma, 1977)
• Perles noires Vol. I (Eremite Records, 2005)

With Alessandro Nobile and Antonio Moncada

• Reaction And Reflection (Rudi Records, 2018)

WithWilliam Parker

• The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (Rai Trade, 2007)
• I Plan to Stay a Believer (AUM Fidelity, 2010)
• Essence of Ellington (Centering, 2012)

WithOdeon Pope

• Epitome (Soul Note, 1993)
• Changes & Changes (CIMP, 1999)

WithRoswell Rudd

• Inside Job (Arista/Freedom, 1976)

WithPharoah Sanders

• Tauhid (Impulse!, 1967)

WithArchie Shepp

• The Way Ahead (Impulse!, 1968)
• Blasé (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• Black Gipsy (America, 1969)
• Pitchin Can (America, 1969)
• Live at the Pan-African Festival (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• Yasmina, a Black Woman (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• For Losers (Impulse!, 1971)
• Things Have Got to Change (Impulse!, 1971)
• The Cry of My People (Impulse!, 1972)
• Attica Blues (Impulse!, 1972)
• Kwanza (Impulse!, 1974)
• There's a Trumpet in My Soul (Arista Freedom 1975)
• Montreux One (Arista Freedom, 1975)
• Montreux Two (Arista Freedom, 1975)
• A Sea of Faces (Black Saint, 1975)
• Body and Soul (Horo, 1975)
• U-Jaama (Unite) (Unitelidis, 1975)
• Jazz a Confronto 27 (Horo, 1976)
• Lover Man (Timeless, 1989)

WithSonny Sharrock

• Black Woman (Vortex, 1969)

WithAlan Silva

• Luna Surface (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• Skillfullness (ESP-Disk, 1969)
• Seasons (BYG Actuel, 1971)

WithBob Stewart

• Then & Now (Postcards, 1996)
• The Crave (NoBusiness Records, 2016)

WithSteve Swell

• Soul Travelers (RogueArt, 2016)

WithClifford Thornton

• Ketchaoua (BYG Actuel, 1967)

With Le Tigre des platanes

• Disappearing (Mr Morezon, 2013)

WithPatty Waters

• College Tour (ESP-Disk, 1966)
• The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings (ESP-Disk, 2006)

With Bobby Zankel

• Celebrating William Parker @ 65 (Not Two, 2017)

WithThe 360 Degree Music Experience

• From Ragtime to No Time (360 Records, 1975)
• In: Sanity (Black Saint, 1976)

• Official site
• Dave Burrell atAllMusic
• Consequences with Billy Martin

• 1940 births
• Living people
• American jazz pianists
• American male jazz pianists
• Musicians from Ohio
• Columbia Records artists
• BYG Actuel artists
• Pew Fellows in the Arts
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• The 360 Degree Music Experience members
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• NoBusiness Records artists

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