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Dave Rempis (born March 24, 1975) is an American
free jazz Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventi ...
saxophonist. He plays the soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones.


Life and career

Dave was born in
Wellesley, Massachusetts Wellesley () is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Wellesley is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The population was 29,550 at the time of the 2020 census. Wellesley College, Babson College, and a campus of M ...
in 1975. He began his musical studies at the age of 8. In 1993, Rempis began a degree in classical saxophone at
Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...
with Frederick Hemke. As part of his studies in anthropology, he spent a year at the International Centre for African Music and Dance at the
University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in the country. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the British colony of the Gold Coast ...
in
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, studying African music and ethnomusicology. After graduating from Northwestern in 1997, Rempis decided to focus on performing, and in March 1998 was asked to replace saxophonist Mars Williams in the Chicago jazz band The Vandermark Five, led by saxophonist Ken Vandermark. During his tenure with The Vandermark Five, Rempis also began to develop many Chicago-based groups and cooperative units as Triage, The Rempis Percussion Quartet, The Engines, Ballister, and The Rempis/Daisy Duo. He recorded for labels such as Okka Disk, 482 Music, Clean Feed, Not Two, and Aerophonic, an artist-run label that Rempis founded in the winter of 2013. His collaborations include a wide variety of creative improvised music legends, ranging from Peter Brötzmann and
John Tchicai John Martin Tchicai ( ; 28 April 1936 – 8 October 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer. Biography Tchicai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a Danish mother and a Congolese father. The family moved to Aarhus, where he s ...
to Joe McPhee and Roscoe Mitchell.Travellin’ Light: Dave Rempis
at Point of Departure
Rempis also works as a programmer in the Chicago area. He curated the weekly "Improvised Music" concert series at Elastic Arts (2002-2023), helped establish the Umbrella Music collective and its annual music festival, worked as lead organizer of the Downtown Sound Gallery concert series at Gallery 37, and organized the yearly
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. Rempis added the soprano saxophone to his arsenal of instruments after his friend and mentor Mars Williams (d. November 2023) left his soprano saxophone to Rempis after years of battling cancer.https://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/09/dave-rempis-tashi-dorji-gnash.html


Discography


As leader/co-leader


As sideman


with Audio One


with The Resonance Ensemble


with The Territory Band


with The Vandermark Five


others


References


External links


Official siteInterview : Dave Rempis
at ''Burning Ambulance''
Dave Rempis: Communication, Improvisation And No Screwing Around
at
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A Chat with Dave Rempis: Jazz, Aerophones & Telepathic Empathy
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