BIOGRAPHIES
Carol Genetti | Jon Mueller | Jack Wright

Over the past twenty-five years JACK WRIGHT has been a bold saxophonist, as well as an influential musical personality. Either on tour or organizing the next one, he has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised music in the US, and many in Europe as well. In 1982 he began Spring Garden Music as a vehicle for organizing an improvisational music community, which continues to grow through regular No Net weekend sessions. As a musical explorer as well, his music passes through radical shifts of style and approach from one year to the next, yet always somehow identifiable as his own. These days he is playing mostly alto and soprano saxophones, in every possible direction, sometimes barely recognizable as those instruments. He lives in Easton Pennsylvania, which enables him to commute easily to NYC and Phila. He is also active in Europe, touring both sides of the Atlantic with European musicians, and recently Japan.

The Washington Post says, "In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king". And a German publication, Bad Alchemy, had this to say of his solo: "Wright does not make music, he embodies it, he transforms it with a naiveté of another order. It grows into a sound river, he is part of the diaphragm through which the heterogeneous whispers."

Jack has over sixty partners around the US and in Europe with whom he plays on his travels and records. His most recent tours have been with Michael Johnsen, electronicist, in France, Holland, Belgium, etc., joined by Sebastien Cirotteau, French tpt player; with French soprano sax player Michel Doneda and NYC percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (From Between Trio) in Japan, France, and the US; with Wade Matthews, bass cl, flute, electronics, in the US; with Carol Genetti, and Jon Mueller, in the US; Nate Wooley, trumpet, of NYC in Europe; cellist Bob Marsh of the Bay area; Michael Griener percussion and Sabine Vogel flute of Berlin; Reuben Radding, NYC bassist; and Phil Durrant, English laptop musician.and with trumpet player Tom Djll from Oakland and soprano sax player Bhob Rainey on the West Coast.
His recent partners in Europe have been: Michel Doneda, soprano sax; Agnes Palier, vocalist; Sebastien Cirotteau, trumpet; Marlene Jobstl, butoh dancer; Pascal Battus, table guitar; Philippe Berger, violin; Jean-Philippe Gross, electronics; Sharif Sehnaoui, guitar; Christine Sehnaoui, alto sax; Nozalcube, musique concrete, electronics; Benjamin Duboc, bass; Dan Warburton, violin; Stephane Rives, soprano sax; Jean-luc Guionnet, alto sax; David Chiesa, double bass; Jean Borde, double bass; Le Quan Ninh, percussion; Barre Philipps, double bass

He has recorded over 35 albums since 1982.

For a full bio, writings, sound files and list of recordings visit his website: www.springgardenmusic.com

feature article in Signal to Noise Magazine: www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2003/
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2001 interview with John Berndt www.redroom.org/documentation/wright.html and also available in French on his website, as published in Improjazz Jan/Feb. 2004)

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