Alan Silva

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The Celestrial Communication Orchestra Center Of The World ICP Tentet Abdelhaï Bennani Trio The Tradition Trio Sunny Murray Quintet Frank Wright Unit Abdelhaï Bennani Quartet William Parker Bass Quartet Andrew Hill Trio The Free Form Improvisation Ensemble Schlippenbach Quartet Free Jazz Art

ex Globe Unity Orchestra, The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, The Cecil Taylor Unit, The Frank Wright Quartet, Sweethearts In A Drugstore, The Sun Ra Arkestra

Jazz bassist, synthesizer player, improviser, composer, founder of Center Of The World, born January 29, 1939 Bermuda.

ALBUMS

Alan Silva / Itaru Oki / Richard Comte / Makoto Sato

2022, CD, Album, NUNC.

Silva*, Rasmussen*, Solberg*

Free Electric Band

2016, CD, Album, For Tune,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Abdelhaï Bennani, Alan Silva, Burton Greene, Chris Henderson

Free Form Improvisation Ensemble 2013

2015, 2xCD, Album, Improvising Beings

Jacques Coursil With Alan Silva

FreeJazzArt (Sessions For Bill Dixon)

2014, CD, Album, RogueArt,

Lucien Johnson, Alan Silva, Makoto Sato

Stinging Nettles

2014, CD, Album, Ltd, Improvising Beings

Abdelhaï Bennani, Alan Silva

2014, CDr, Album, Promo, JaZt Tapes

Alan Silva & Roger Turner

2013, CD, Album, Multikulti Project,

Free Improvisation/Free Jazz

Noah Rosen, Alan Silva

O.I.L. Orchestrated Improvised Lives

2013, CD, Album, Improvising Beings

Abdelhaï Bennani, Alan Silva, William Parker

Alan Silva & Burton Greene

Parallel Worlds

2012, CD, Album, Long Song Records,

Free Improvisation

Abdelhaï Bennani, Itaru Oki, Alan Silva, Makoto Sato

New Today, New Everyday

2012, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, Improvising Beings

Alan Silva, Keiko Higuchi, Sabu Toyozumi, Takuo Tanikawa*

2011, CD, Ltd, Improvising Beings

Alan Silva, Roger Turner

2011, DVDr, DVD-V, Ltd, Ihhavec Production,

Free Improvisation

Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Alan Silva, Lauhkeat Lampaat

Qbico U-Nite In Bruxelles II

2004, 2xLP, Ltd, Col, Qbico

Alan Silva & The Celestrial Communication Orchestra

H.Con.Res.57 / Treasure Box

2003, 4xCD + Box, Ltd, Num, Eremite Records

Allen* / Drake* / Jordan* / Parker* / Silva*

The All-Star Game

2003, CD, Album, Eremite Records,

William Parker With Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter & Alan Silva

Fractured Dimensions

2003, CD, Album, FMP,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Alan Silva, Johannes Bauer, Roger Turner

In The Tradition

2003, DVDr, DVD-V, Ltd, Ihhavec Production,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Alan Silva / Kidd Jordan / William Parker

Emancipation Suite #1

2002, CD, Album, Boxholder Records

Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra

Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra

2001, CD, Album, Eremite Records

Alan Silva Conducts Visions Orchestra

2000, VHS, Context Studios

Alan Silva & William Parker

A Hero's Welcome: Pieces For Rare Occasions

1999, CD, Album, Eremite Records,

Free Improvisation

Alan Silva & Oluyemi Thomas

1999, CD, Album, Eremite Records

Burton Greene, Gary William Friedman, Jon Winter (2), Alan Silva, Clarence Walker (2), The Free Form Improvisation Ensemble

The Free Form Improvisation Ensemble

1998, CD, Album, Cadence Jazz Records,

Alan Silva, Johannes Bauer, Roger Turner

In The Tradition

1996, CD, Album, In Situ, Basta (7),

Free Improvisation

A.R. Penck, Frank Wollny, Alan Silva - TTT

1995, CD, Album, Ltd, Mara Records

Celestrial Communication Orchestra* Conducted By Alan Silva

1989, CD, Album, RM, Leo Records,

Free Jazz/Big Band

Alan Silva / Roger Turner / Misha Lobko / Didier Petit / Bruno Girard

Take Some Risks

1989, CD, Album, In Situ, Adda, Basta (7),

Free Improvisation

Alan Silva / Celestrial Communication Orchestra*

1982, 2xLP, Album, I.A.C.P,

Avant-garde Jazz/Big Band

Burton Greene / Alan Silva

The Ongoing Strings

1981, 2xLP, Album, Hat Hut Records,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Burton Greene Encounters Alan Silva And Sunny Murray

Alan Silva, The Celestrial Communications Orchestra*

The Shout - Portrait For A Small Woman

Few*, Silva*, Wright*

Few*, Silva*, Wright*

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz

Alan Silva Solo*

Inner Song - Pieces For Bass And Voice

Alan Silva And The Celestrial Communication Orchestra

Alan Silva And His Celestrial Communication Orchestra*

Abdelhaï Bennani Quartet

2015, CDr, Album, Promo, JaZt Tapes,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Abdelhaï Bennani Trio

The Crawling Snake

2015, CDr, Album, Promo, JaZt Tapes

Abdelhaï Bennani Trio

Stories Without Words

2014, CDr, Album, Promo, JaZt Tapes

Abdelhaï Bennani Trio

2014, CDr, Album, Promo, JaZt Tapes

Abdelhaï Bennani Trio

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Abdelhaï Bennani Trio

2003, CD, Album, Tampon Ramier

The Tradition Trio

2002, CD, Album, a/l/l,

Free Improvisation

Abdelhaï Bennani Quartet

1998, CD, Album, Marge,

Sweethearts In A Drugstore

Sweethearts In A Drugstore

1996, CD, Album, Ninth World Music

Globe Unity Orchestra

20th Anniversary

1993, CD, Album, FMP

Schlippenbach Quartet

Free Improvisation

Andrew Hill Trio

Strange Serenade

Sunny Murray Quintet

Center Of The World

Inner Song. Volume 5

Center Of The World

Solos & Duets. Volume 7

Avant-garde Jazz

Center Of The World

Center Of The World. Volume I

Center Of The World

Solos & Duets. Volume 6

APPEARANCES +

Cecil Taylor Unit*

Live At Fat Tuesday's, February 9, 1980 • First Visit

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research Arkestra*

Paradiso Amsterdam 1970

Avant-garde Jazz/Space-Age

With (Exit) To Student Studies Revisited

2022, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

Mixed To Unit Structures Revisited

2021, CD, Comp, RM, ezz-thetics,

The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

2015, 4xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris*

Possible Universe (Conduction® 192)

2014, CD, Album, Ltd, Nu Bop Records,

Free Improvisation/Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Music For Contemporary Kagura

2013, CD, Album, Improvising Beings,

Free Improvisation/Noise/Ambient

Sun Ra Arkestra*

Live At The Red Garter

2013, 2xCD + CD-ROM, Transparency,

Instant Composers Pool

2012, 52xCD, Album, RE, RM + 2xDVD-V, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Instant Composers Pool,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Pharoah Sanders

In The Beginning 1963-1964

2012, 4xCD, Comp, Mono, ESP Disk,

Free Jazz/Space-Age/Interview/Post Bop

ESP-Disk' Fire Music Vol. 1

Love Cry / The Last Album

2011, CD, Comp, RM, Impulse!,

Free Jazz/Soul-Jazz

2011, CD, Rogueart

Sun Ra And The Intergalactic Research Arkestra*

2010, 2xCD, Album, Transparency,

Gérard Patris et Luc Ferrari

Les Grandes Répétitions

2010, 2xDVD-V, PAL, K-Films,

Free Jazz/Baroque/Contemporary

The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

2010, 9xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note,

The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Jacques Coursil

Trails Of Tears

Newport Jazz Festival-The Electric Circus

2009, 2xCD, Album, Transparency,

Inside Out In The Open (An Expressionist Journey Into The World Known As Free Jazz)

2008, DVD-V, D/Sided, NTSC, PAL, ESP-Disk'

Professor Roswell Presents History & Spirit Of Jazz "Study In Blue" Vol. 2

2008, CD, Comp, Promo, Smplr, Pap, Blue Note,

Avant-garde Jazz/Bop/Fusion/Hard Bop/Modal/Post Bop/Soul-Jazz/Swing

2007, 3xCD, Comp, Verve Records,

Ragtime/Dixieland/Swing/Bop/Latin Jazz/Cool Jazz/Hard Bop/Modal/Free Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Bossa Nova/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Spoken Word/Technical/Interview/Big Band/Chicago Blues

2006, CD, Album, RM, ESP Disk,

William Parker Bass Quartet Featuring Charles Gayle

2006, CD, Album, Splasc(H) Records, Splasc(H) Records,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

The Impulse Story

Free Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Modal

Perles Noires Vol. I

2005, CD, Album, Eremite Records, Eremite Records,

Sunshine & An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker)

2002, CD, Comp, RE, Fuel 2000,

Bill Dixon / Franz Koglmann / Steve Lacy

2001, CD, Comp, RM, Between The Lines,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

Paris · Ohraï

2001, CD, Ohrai Records

Classic Jazz: The Sixties

LifeTime Visions (For The Magnificent Human)

2000, CD, Album, Bopbuda Music,

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Free Jazz/Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde/Free Improvisation

Blasé / Live At The Pan-African Festival

Free Jazz/Soul-Jazz

Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra*

Black Myth / Out In Space

1998, 2xCD, Comp, MPS Records, Motor Music,

Free Jazz/Space-Age

Triple Trip Touch Live In Weimar

1998, LP, Album, Ltd, Not On Label,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Visions Of Jazz: A Musical Journey

1998, 2xCD, Comp, EMI, Blue Note,

Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz/Big Band/Jump Blues/Swing

Live In Greenwich Village - The Complete Impulse Recordings

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

The Instrumental History Of Jazz

1997, CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Enh + Box, N2K Encoded Jazz,

Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz/Fusion/Dixieland/Modal/Swing/Hard Bop/Ragtime/Cool Jazz

1996, CD, Nettle, Musica Jazz,

Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

Matador Of 1st & 1st

1996, CD, Passin' Thru Records

TTT (2) featuring A.R. Penck, Jeanne Lee + G. Hampel*

Im Stadtgarten Köln

1995, CD, Album, Ltd, Mara Records

Schlippenbach Quartett*

1991, 2xLP, Album, Po Torch Records,

Yasmina / Poem For Malcolm

1989, CD, Comp, Jazz Hour

Fire Into Music - The Best Of Impulse! Volume III

Post Bop/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

1983, LP, Album, Black Lion Records, Black Lion Records,

The Globe Unity Orchestra*

Intergalactic Blow

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Considerations 1

1981, LP, Fore (2)

It Is In The Brewing Luminous

In Italy - Volume Two

In Italy - Volume One

The Village Concerts

For Example - Workshop Freie Musik 1969 - 1978

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Franz Koglmann / Bill Dixon

Opium For Franz

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Experimental

Sun Ra And His Arkestra*

Sun Ra And His Arkestra Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold

Muhammad Ali Duo Frank Wright

Adieu Little Man

No Energy Crisis

The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz

1973, 6xLP, Comp, Mono, San + Box, Smithsonian Collection,

Dixieland/Free Jazz/Big Band/Swing/Ragtime

Frank Wright Quartet*

Last Polka In Nancy ?

Student Studies

The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz

Bop/Dixieland/Free Jazz/Big Band/Modal/Swing/Hard Bop/Ragtime

Reevaluations: The Impulse Years

Free Jazz/Jazz-Funk

More Or Less Few

La Saga Héroïque D'Albert Ayler

1971, 2xLP, Comp, Impulse!

Modern Jazz Drums Deluxe

1971, 2xLP, Comp, Impulse!, ABC Records,

Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Volume 1

Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Volume 2

François Tusques

Intercommunal Music

Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research Arkestra*

It's After The End Of The World - Live At The Donaueschingen And Berlin Festivals

Free Jazz/Space-Age

Yasmina, A Black Woman / Live At The Panafrican Festival

Free Jazz/African

Live At The Panafrican Festival

Poem For Malcolm / Blasé

Sunshine / Hommage To Africa

Grachan Moncur III

Aco Dei De Madrugada (One Morning I Waked Up Very Early) / New Africa

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

1970, 7", EP, Fratelli Fabbri Editori,

Other Afternoons

1970, LP, Album, BYG Records

Other Afternoons

Hommage To Africa

History Of Jazz: Vol. 10

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Free Jazz No. 1

1969, LP, Comp, Concert Hall,

Grachan Moncur III

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Post Bop/Modal

Poem For Malcom

Marks* And Lebzelter*

Rock And Other Four Letter Words

The Jazz Composer's Orchestra

The Jazz Composer's Orchestra

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

In Greenwich Village

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

The ESP Sampler

Free Jazz/Folk Rock/Avantgarde/Lo-Fi/Parody/Avant-garde Jazz/Experimental/Poetry/Monolog/Spoken Word/Free Improvisation

Unit Structures

2xLP, Comp, Monkey Records (4), Monkey Records (4),

Jazz Of The 60th - Free Jazz / Volume 20

2xLP, Comp, Monkey Records (4),

BYG Jazz Disque

LP, Comp, BYG Records,

QBICO U-Nite New York I & Bruxelles II

2004, 4xLP, Comp, Ltd, Num, Han, Qbico,

Avantgarde/Free Improvisation

Swing/Spoken Word/Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Psychedelic Rock/Avant-garde Jazz/Experimental/Bluegrass

ESP Is 3D! Superstereo

Spoken Word/Free Jazz/Avantgarde/Psychedelic Rock/Experimental/Folk Rock/Bluegrass

Live In Stuttgart

2020, 2xCDr, RE, Unofficial, Necromancer (2)

Cintas Difusivas #1 - This Music

2018, Cass, Comp, Unofficial, Afeite Al Perro,

Free Jazz/Big Band/Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Jazz-Funk

Student Studies

Sun Ra Arkestra*

Fondation Maeght Nights - Volume 1

Sun Ra Arkestra*

Fondation Maeght Nights - Volume 2

Maison de l'ORTF, Paris, 1966

Cass, Album, Unofficial, Anökumena,

Tape Of The Same Name Vol. D

Cass, Comp, Unofficial, Not On Label,

Psychedelic Rock/Folk Rock/Folk/Country Rock/Pop Rock/Beat/Rock & Roll/Avant-garde Jazz/Ballad/Baroque/Experimental/Soul-Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz/Ambient/Alternative Rock/Prog Rock/Country Blues/Texas Blues/Swing/Spoken Word

Sun Ra Arkestra* Featuring Pharaoah Sanders*, Black Harold* . Alan Silva

Live At Judson Hall 1964

Unit Structures

Live In Greenwich Village - The Complete Impulse Recordings