Claire Daly

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Claire Daly is a baritone saxophonist and composer.

Early life[]

Daly was born in Bronxville, New York, around 1958.[1] She began to play saxophone around the age of 12.[2] She became interested in jazz when, at that age, she attended a Buddy Rich Orchestra performance at the municipal arena in Westchester County, New York.[2] At high school, she was part of a marching band and a pit band.[1] She was influenced by attending jazz workshop sessions led by Rahsaan Roland Kirk when she was 18.[3] She attended Berklee College of Music,[3] mainly playing alto and tenor saxophones, and graduated in 1980.[1]

Later life and career[]

After graduating, Daly moved to Cape Cod, played in one rock band for two years and another for three.[1] She moved back to New York in 1985 and started playing more baritone saxophone.[1] From the mid-1990s, she often played with pianist Joel Forrester.[1]

Daly's first album as a leader, Swing Low, was released in 1999.[4] She won the 2009, 2010, and 2011 DownBeat Critics' Poll for Baritone Saxophone Rising Star.[5][6][7]

Her 2008 self-released album Rah! Rah!, a tribute to Kirk, was re-issued by Ride Symbol in 2020.[3] On this album, she played baritone saxophone and flute, and sang on two tracks.[3] Around 2009, she co-led a trio, Two Sisters, Inc, which contained baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson and bassist Dave Hofstra,[8] and recorded the album Scaribari.[9]

She toured with the DIVA Jazz Orchestra,[4] which she was a member of from its inception until 1998.[10] "In 2000 she performed in the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival with her quartet. The next year she was guest soloist with the Billy Taylor Trio at the Kennedy Center. After releasing her third CD, Heaven Help Us All (on her own label, Daly Bread Records), she embarked on a lengthy national tour with Kirpal Gordon, a writer and poet".[11] In 2012, her album Baritone Monk was released; her band toured for eight days, from Vancouver to Santa Cruz, California, before recording it.[4]

Playing and composing style[]

A DownBeat reviewer in 2011 wrote that Daly's "saxophone work and hard-bop-tinged, conversational compositions recall Dexter Gordon or Vince Guaraldi".[9]

Discography[]

As leader[]

  • Swing Low (Koch, 1999)
  • Movin' On (Koch, 2002)
  • Heaven Help Us All (Daly Bread, 2004)
  • Baritone Monk (NCBC Music, 2012)
  • 2648 West Grand Boulevard (Glass Beach, 2016)
  • Rah! Rah! (Ride Symbol, 2020)

As guest[]

  • Joe Fonda, Loaded Basses (CIMP, 2006)
  • Joel Forrester, In Heaven (Koch, 1997)
  • George Garzone, Moodiology (NYC, 1999)
  • Giacomo Gates, The Revolution Will Be Jazz (Savant, 2011)
  • J. C. Hopkins, Underneath a Brooklyn Moon (Tigerlily, 2005)
  • J. C. Hopkins, Meet Me at Minton's (Harlem Jazz, 2016)
  • Kit McClure, Some Like It Hot! (Red Hot, 1990)
  • Taj Mahal, Like Never Before (Private Music, 1991)
  • Tribecastan, New Deli (Evergreene Music, 2012)
  • Warren Smith, Old News Borrowed (Blues Engine, 2009)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Suzuki, Yoko (2013). "Daly, Claire". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Stewart 2007, p. 259.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d McCree, Cree (November 2020). "The Claire Daly Band: Rah! Rah!". DownBeat. Vol. 87 no. 11. p. 48.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Young, Zoe (April 2013). "Claire Daly's Baritone Monk Embraces 'Old-School Cool'". DownBeat. Vol. 80 no. 4. p. 18.
  5. ^ "57th Annual Critics Poll: Official Results". DownBeat. Vol. 76 no. 8. August 2009. p. 43.
  6. ^ "58th Annual Critics Poll: Complete Results". DownBeat. Vol. 77 no. 8. August 2010. p. 50.
  7. ^ "59th DownBeat Annual Critics Poll: Complete Results". DownBeat. Vol. 78 no. 8. August 2010. p. 49.
  8. ^ Daly, Claire (May 2009). "Master Class". DownBeat. Vol. 76 no. 5. p. 60.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Micallef, Ken (May 2011). "Claire Daly Brings Inspiration to Juneau Jazz & Classics Fest". DownBeat. Vol. 78 no. 5. p. 100.
  10. ^ Stewart 2007, pp. 258, 276.
  11. ^ Stewart 2007, p. 276.

Bibliography

  • Stewart, Alex (2007). Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24953-0.

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