Mujician were a free improvising and

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quartet. The core members were

Paul Dunmall Paul Dunmall (born 6 May 1953) is a British jazz musician who plays tenor and soprano saxophone, as well as the baritone and the more exotic saxello and the Northumbrian smallpipes. He has played with Keith Tippett and Barry Guy. In the earl ...

(reeds),

Keith Tippett Keith Graham Tippetts (25 August 1947 – 14 June 2020), known professionally as Keith Tippett, was a British jazz pianist and composer. According to AllMusic, Tippett's career "...spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, improvised and contemporar ...

(piano), Paul Rogers (bass) and

Tony Levin Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (19 ...

(drums and percussion). The band's name "comes from Tippett's daughter, describing what dad does for a living". Mujician formed in 1988. Their first album, ''The Journey'', contains a single track recorded live at the 1990 Bath Festival. ''Poem About the Hero'' is also a live recording, done in front of a small audience; their first studio session was ''Colours Fulfilled'', made in 1997. The 2000 ''

The Bristol Concert ''The Bristol Concert'' was a collaboration between the British free jazz quartet Mujician (plus vocalist Julie Tippetts) and The Georgian Ensemble, an 11-piece group from Georgia. The concert programme featured compositions by Keith Tippett, w ...

'' release was recorded in 1991 and added

Julie Tippetts Julie Driscoll Tippett (born 8 June 1947) is an English singer and actress, known for her work with Brian Auger and her husband, Keith Tippett. Career Driscoll is known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's " This Wheel's on F ...

on vocals and the Georgian Ensemble. This was followed by ''Spacetime'' (2001) and ''There's No Going Back Now'' (2005). Mujician retained the same core group of four members and toured in 2010 to mark Levin's seventieth birthday. These were their final performances, as the drummer died in February of the following year.

Discography

*''The Journey'' (

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, 1990) *''

'' (What Disc, 1991) *''Poem About the Hero'' (Cuneiform, 1992) *''Birdman'' (Cuneiform, 1995) *''Colours Fulfilled'' (Cuneiform, 1997) *''Spacetime'' (Cuneiform, 2001) *''There's No Going Back Now'' (Cuneiform, 2005) *''10 10 10'' (Cuneiform, 2021) Source:

References

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