James Hurt
James Maurice Hurt Jr is an American jazz pianist.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Hurt had early training as a drummer.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Hurt was a member of Sherman Irby's quartet that played regularly at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City in the late 1990s.[2] Gregory Tardy wrote a song after him, entitled "Mr. Hurt";[3] the pair played with Rashied Ali in 1999.[4]
In the 1990s, Hurt played on albums with Antonio Hart (Here I Stand),[5] Abbey Lincoln (Wholly Earth), and Russell Gunn.[6]
His own first album was Dark Grooves – Mystical Rhythms on Blue Note Records in 1999.[7][8] In a review of the album, James Lien of CMJ New Music Report called Hurt "one of the more adventurous young pianists to recently emerge on the New York scene."[9] Calvin Wilson of The Kansas City Star described the album as "at once boldly experimental and totally accessible."[10]
James has played with Elizabeth Kontomanou,[11] Graham Haynes,[12] DJ Logic,[13] and composer, percussionist, and conductor Adam Rudolph (as a percussionist),[14]
Hurt has made guest appearances with Donald Edwards,[15] Stacy Dillard,[15] and Rudresh Mahanthappa.[16]
Hurt has been a piano tutor at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.[17]
Discography
[edit | edit source]As leader
- Dark Grooves, Mystical Rhythms (Blue Note, 1999)
As sideman
- Russell Gunn, Gunn Fu (HighNote, 1997)
- Antonio Hart, Here I Stand (Impulse!/GRP, 1997)
- Sherman Irby, Full Circle (Blue Note, 1997)
- Sherman Irby, Big Mama's Biscuits (Blue Note, 1998)
- Abbey Lincoln, Wholly Earth (Verve/Gitanes Jazz, 1998 [1999])
- Russell Gunn, Love Requiem (HighNote, 1999)
- Jeffery Smith, Down Here Below (Verve, 1999)
- DJ Spinna, Here to There (Rapster, 2002)
- DJ Spinna, Outta Time featuring the Free Radikalz (Papa, 2004)
- DJ Spinna, Intergalactic Soul (Wonderwax, 2006)
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- James at the Royal Family Ball @ Terminal 5, Jambands, October 18, 2010
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- American jazz pianists
- American male jazz pianists
- Living people
- 1967 births
- Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee
- Tennessee State University alumni
- 20th-century American pianists
- Jazz musicians from Tennessee
- 21st-century American pianists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American male musicians