Joe Gallivan
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Joe Gallivan is an American jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 and avant-garde
Avant-garde
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 musician. He plays drums, percussion and synthesizer.

Gallivan's first professional experience came at the age of 15 while in Miami. He played early on with Eduardo Chavez
Eduardo Chávez
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, Art Mooney
Art Mooney
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 and Charlie Spivak
Charlie Spivak
Charlie Spivak was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s.-Biography:...

, as well as with the Modern Jazz Orchestra. He attended the University of Miami
University of Miami
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 and then moved to New York in 1961, where he had a big band with Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd is best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a...

 that featured Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist. On a few occasions he also played the clarinet and baritone saxophone. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s...

, Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams
Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III was a jazz baritone saxophonist and composer. He composed 43 pieces, was the leader on twenty albums, and participated in 600 sessions as a sideman.-Biography:...

, Don Ellis
Don Ellis
Don Ellis was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of unusual time signatures...

, Johnny Coles
Johnny Coles
Johnny Coles was an American jazz trumpeter.Coles spent his early career playing with R&B groups, including those of Eddie Vinson , Bull Moose Jackson , and Earl Bostic...

, Julius Watkins
Julius Watkins
Julius Watkins was an American jazz musician, and one of the first jazz French horn players. He won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for "miscellaneous instrument" with French horn named as the instrument....

, and Duke Pearson
Duke Pearson
Duke Pearson was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic notes him as being a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a producer."-History:...

 before returning to Miami the next year. There he conducted for the TV show Music U.S.A. and led the band A Train of Thought. In the 1960s he became interested in electronic music
Electronic music
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 and musique concrète
Musique concrète
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, and began meeting with Vladimir Ussachevsky
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Vladimir Kirilovitch Ussachevsky was a composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music.-Biography:...

. Robert Moog
Robert Moog
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 had Gallivan help test his Moog drum system, which Gallivan used on the 1974 Gil Evans
Gil Evans
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 album There Comes a Ttime.

In addition to his two years with Evans, Gallivan worked throughout the 1970s (and beyond) with saxophonist Charles Austin
Charles Austin
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 and three years with Larry Young in their group Love Cry Want. (Love Cry Want is also the title of the group's 1972 recording, released on CD in 1997 on Gallivan's label newjazz.com.) Joe moved to Europe in 1976, living in various major cities across the Continent through 1989. While in London he was considered as a replacement for Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
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 in the band Soft Machine
Soft Machine
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, but did not end up joining the group, instead collaborating with its former members Elton Dean
Elton Dean
Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....

 and Hugh Hopper
Hugh Hopper
Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...

. They worked together with Gallivan and Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett, the son of a local police officer, went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance...

 for the 1977 album Cruel But Fair. While living in Frankfurt
Frankfurt
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 in the 1980s, Gallivan worked with Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics.-Biography:...

, Heinz Sauer, and Christopher Lauer.

After returning to the U.S. in 1989, Gallivan was based out of Hawaii
Hawaii
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 for much of the 1990s. During this time, he recorded in London the critically acclaimed CD Innocence
Innocence
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," featuring Elton Dean
Elton Dean
Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....

, Evan Parker
Evan Parker
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, and a host of other luminaries of London's avant-garde music scene. He performed three years in a row at Ronnie Scott's Club in London with Brian Cuomo on piano and Jackie Ryan on vocals - during this time, the trio released two CDs, one live and one in-studio. Joe also released other two CDs in collaboration with Brian Cuomo, one a duet, and one a trio featuring saxophonist Elton Dean
Elton Dean
Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....

.

In 1998, Joe recorded two award-winning CDs (Essential Recordings of the Year for The Wire Magazine in London), Electric/Electronic/Electric, in the trio Powerfield, with keyboardist Pat Thomas
Pat Thomas
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 and guitarist Gary Smith
Gary Smith
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, and Gallivan/Smith, in duet with Gary Smith. The same year, he recorded in Barcelona a critically acclaimed CD "Des Del Silenci" with the octet Ektal Ensemble, including Barcelona trumpetist Benet Palet and percussionist Marti Perramon, plus the Gnawan quartet Nas Marrakech featuring vocalist Abdel-Jahlil Koddsi.

In 2000, Joe's ensemble The Rainforest Initiative (Joe Gallivan on drums, with saxophonists Evan Parker
Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...

, Elton Dean
Elton Dean
Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....

, Charles Austin
Charles Austin
Charles Austin is an American athlete who won the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the owner of So High Sports and Fitness a sports performance and personal training company. He opened his So High Sports and Fitness Studio in 2002 and his...

, and John McMinn, bassist Marcio Mattos, and Hawaiian
Hawaiian
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 chanters Lei'ohu Ryder and Mahalani Po'epo'e) headlined at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York City. This performance was recorded and broadcast for three years after on Black Entertainment Network.

During the 2000s, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD reviewed (favorably) many of Joe Gallivan's recordings.

Joe continues to perform and record in Europe and in the United States. His recent works include "Vienna," a live recording in trio (also called Rainforest Initiative) with bassist Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers
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 and classical Indian violinist Anupriya, and "LA" on which he plays synthesizer with saxophonist/flautist Benn Clatworthy.

In 2011 Joe, the sole surviving member of the 1970s group Love Cry Want, recorded a new Love Cry Want CD with guitarist Tom McNalley and bassist Michelle Webb for release on the Indigo With Stars label.

Gallivan has five children: Monica Gallivan Couch, Jessica Gallivan, Cory Gallivan, Dakota Gallivan and Max Gallivan.

More information on Joe's life and collaborations is available at http://www.joegallivan.net/bio.htm

Discography

Modern Jazz Orchestra featuring Kenny Drew (Addess) (re-issued on CD in 2001 by V.S.O.P. Records)

At Last (Man Made) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan (released as CD in 2000)

Mindscapes (Spitball) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan (released as CD in 2000)

Expressions to the Winds (Spitball) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan (also CD in 2000)

Cruel but Fair (Compendium) with Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Keith Tippet, Joe Gallivan (reissued on CD by One Way)

Peace On Earth (Compendium) with Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, John McMinn, Carmen Lundy, David Deluca, Al Richardson, Marvis Martin London (Compendium)

Intercontinental Express with Joe Gallivan, Charles Austin, Kenny Wheeler, Nick Evans, Jeff Green, Elton Dean, Ronnie Scott, Ian Hamer, Roy Babbington, Toni Cook, Stephen Wick.

The Cheque is in the Mail (Ogun) Kenny Wheeler, Elton Dean, Joe Gallivan

Home from Home (Ogun) Charles Austin, Roy Babbington, Joe Gallivan

Mercy Dash (Atmospheres) Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Keith Tippet, Joe Gallivan (reissued on CD by Culture Press)

There Comes A Time (RCA) Gil Evans and his Orchestra

The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (RCA)

And Around (Colin) Jean Schwarz, Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan

Surroundings (Celia) Jean Schwarz, Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan

Miami (Atmosphere) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan

The New Orchestra (Hannibal) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, Ryo Kawasaki, Clive Stevens, Peter Ponzol, George Bishop, Gene Golden, Sabu Morales, Wendell Hayes, Tadashi Yasunaga

Voices (Hannibal) Joe Gallivan, Charles Austin, John McMinn, Earl Lloyd

Supply and Demand (Rykodisc) Dagmar Krause, Richard Thompson, John Harle, Danny Thompson, Joe Gallivan

Mysterious Planet (Hannibal) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, John McMinn, Nelson Padron, Earl Lloyd

Prism (Vinyl) Peter Ponzol, Abbey Rader, Joe Gallivan

Innocence (Cadence) Joe Gallivan with Guy Barker, Elton Dean, Claude Deppa, Jim Dvorak, Marcio Mattos, Neil Metcalf, Evan Parker, Gerard Presencer, Paul Rutherford, Ashley Slater

Night Vision (newjazz.com) Brian Cuomo, Joe Gallivan

The Origin of Man (newjazz.com) Elton Dean, Brian Cuomo, Joe Gallivan

Surrender (newjazz.com) Jackie Ryan, Brian Cuomo, Joe Gallivan

Love Cry Want (newjazz.com) Larry Young, Joe Gallivan, Nicholas

Orchestral Meditations ( newjazz.com) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, John McMinn

Timeless (newjazz.com) Charles Austin, Joe Gallivan, John McMinn, Gene Argel, Brian Cuomo, Hector Serrano

Guitars on Mars (Virgin) Larry Young, Nicholas, Joe Gallivan

Wiretapper (November 1998), Powerfield

Wiretapper (August 1999) Powerfield

Des Del Silenci (Afro-Blue Records) Ektal Ensemble

Electronic/Electric/Electronic (Paratactile) Powerfield (Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith, Pat Thomas)

Joe Gallivan/Gary Smith (Paratactile) Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith

Live At Ronnie Scott's (Ronnie Scott's) Joe Gallivan, Jackie Ryan, Brian Cuomo

Powerfield (July 2006) Powerfield (Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith, Pat Thomas)

Vienna (2007) Rainforest Initiative (Joe Gallivan, Paul Rogers, Anupriya)

LA (2010) Joe Gallivan, Benn Clatworthy

neonlighthouse84 (2010) Joe Gallivan, Tony Moore (aka P.Y. Caplin)

Love Cry Want (2011) Joe Gallivan, Tom McNalley, Michelle Webb
Recorded and Live Radio Broadcasts

1977 Radio France: Two sessions with Elton Dean, Keith Tippet and Hugh Hopper

1977 Danish Radio: Live at Club Montmartre (the most famous jazz club in Copenhagen)

1977 Radio Bremen: Live at Stadt Theatre in Bremen

1977 Radio France: Recorded broadcast with Charles Austin

1977 Chateau Vallon Festival in Toulon, France: Intercontinental Express Big Band

1978 Espace Cardin: Live broadcast with Charles Austin and big band from a theatre in Paris

1980 Radio France: two broadcasts with French composer Jean Schwarz and Charles Austin

1981 France Musique: Live broadcast

1982 France Musique: Live broadcast with Peter Ponzol

1983 Hessicher Rundfunk Jazz Ensemble broadcast

1985 BBC Radio 3: with Elton Dean

1985 Hessicher Rundfunk Jazz Ensemble broadcast

1986 Hessicher Rundfunk Jazz Ensemble broadcast with John Schroeder

1986 BBC Radio 3: Soldiers of the Road Big Band

1986 BBC Radio 3: with John Corbett

1987 BBC Radio 3: duo with Evan Parker

1987 Public TV, Miami, Florida: One hour show with Charles Austin

1987 France Musique with Nicholas

1992 BBC Radio 1: Soldiers of the Road Big Band at the London Jazz Festival

1992 BBC Radio 1: Quartet with Paul Rutherford, Jim Dvorak, Marcio Mattos

2000 BBC Radio 3: Powerfield (Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith, Pat Thomas)

2000 to present Black Entertainment Network is broadcasting the Rainforest Initiative taped at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York City

2001 ORF radio (Vienna): Ektal Ensemble at Festival Schnittpunkte

2003 ORF television (Vienna) Joe Gallivan and DJ Orgasmus

2004 Orange Internet Radio (Austria) Rainforest 21
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