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Though Berne was a music fan, he had no interest in playing a musical instrument until he was in college, when he purchased an alto saxophone. He was more interested in rhythm and blues music--Stax records releases and Aretha Franklin, especially--until he heard a recording by Julius Hemphill. A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B) was coined as a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues. ... Streaming API for XML (StAX) is an application programming interface (API) to read and write XML documents in the Java programming language. ... Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an iconic American gospel, soul and R&B singer born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan. ... Julius Arthur Hemphill (1938-1995) was a jazz composer and saxophone player. ...

Hemphill was known for his integration of soul music and funk with free jazz. Berne moved to New York City in 1974. There Berne took lessons from Hemphill, and later recorded with him. Soul music is a combination of rhythm and blues and gospel which began in the late 1950s in the United States. ... Funk is a distinct style of music originated by African-Americans, e. ... Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location [[Image:|250px|250px|Location of City of New York, New York]] Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ...

In 1979, Berne founded Empire Records to release his own recordings. He recorded two albums for Columbia Records, which generated some discussion and controversy, due in part to the fact that Berne's music had little in common with the neo-tradionalist hard bop performers prominent in the mid-1980s. Some regarded Berne's music as uncommercial. In the late 1990s Berne founded Screwgun Records, which has released his own recordings, as well as others' music. This page refers to the year 1979. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... Hard bop is an extension of bebop (bop) music which incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing. ... Screwgun Records is a jazz record label founded by Tim Berne. ...

Beyond his recordings as a bandleader, Berne has recorded with Bill Frisell, John Zorn, and as a member of the cooperative trio Miniature (group). William Richard Bill Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist. ... John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. ... Miniature was a cooperative jazz trio. ...

Berne's complex, multi-section compositions are often quite lengthy; twenty to thirty minute pieces are not unusual. One critic has written that Berne's long songs "don't grow tiresome. The musicians are brilliantly creative and experienced enough not to get lost in all the room provided by these large time frames." [1]

Discography

• 1979 The Five Year Plan
• 1980 7X
• 1981 Songs and Rituals in Real Time
• 1983 Ancestors
• 1983 Mutant Variations
• 1983 Theoretically
• 1986 Fulton Street Maul
• 1988 Sanctified Dreams
• 1989 Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales
• 1990 Pace Yourself
• 1992 Diminutive Mysteries
• 1993 Nice View
• 1994 Lowlife
• 1994 Poisoned Minds
• 1996 Memory Select
• 1997 Discretion
• 1997 Saturation Point
• 1997 Visitation Rites
• 1997 I Think They Liked It Honey
• 1998 Please Advise
• 1998 Visitation Rites
• 1998 Ornery People
• 1998 Cause & Reflect
• 2001 The Shell Game
• 2001 Open, Coma
• 2002 The Sevens
• 2002 Science Friction
• 2003 The Sublime And
• 2004 Acoustic and Electric Hard Cell Live
• 2005 Feign
• 2005 Pre-Emptive Denial

External links

• A more detailed discography: [2]
• An 1998 interview: [3]
• Another Interview: [4]