Garrett List  

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Garrett List (September 10, 1943 – December 27, 2019) was an American musician, known as a trombonist, vocalist, and composer.

List was born in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1950, he moved with his family to southern California. At the age of 18, he was teaching, playing, and composing classical, jazz, and pop music. In 1965 he left California and settled in New York City, where he attended the Juilliard School of Music. He encountered the Italian composer Luciano Berio and the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, with whom he formed the Juilliard Ensemble. This ensemble permitted him to meet Henri Pousseur and Pierre Boulez.

In the 1970s, he developed an interest in free jazz and met John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, Steve Lacy, and LaMonte Young. He was a member of Italian band Musica Elettronica Viva. In 1981, Henri Pousseur invited him to establish the improvisation class at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège, where his students included Fabrizio Cassol, Michel Massot and Aston Keaton alias Acétone. He wrote pieces for Man Ray movies as well as for Fernand Léger, Hans Richter, and Paul Gonze.

List died in Liege, Belgium, aged 76.

Discography

As leader

• Your Own Self (Opus One, 1972)
• American Images (Horo, 1978)
• Fire & Ice (Lovely Music, 1982)
• The Real Live Orchestra (Igloo, 1986)
• The Unbearably Light (Music for Treesasbl, 1995)
• The Voyage (Carbon 7, 1998)
• The New York Takes (Carbon 7, 1998)

As sideman

With Anthony Braxton

• Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista, 1976)
• Four Compositions (Solo, Duo & Trio) 1982/1988 (hatART, 1989)

With Willem Breuker

• Driebergen Zeist (BV Haast, 1983)
• To Remain (BV Haast, 1989)
• The Parrot (BV Haast, 1996)
• Kurt Weill (BV Haast, 1998)

With Johnny Copeland

• Copeland Special (Demon, 1981)
• Texas Party (Orbis, 1995)

With Arthur Russell

• First Thought Best Thought (Audika, 2006)
• Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika, 2008)

With others

• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman (Edition, 1994)
• Keshavan Maslak, Keshavan Maslak (Atman, 1977)
• Musica Elettronica Viva, United Patchwork (Horo, 1978)
• Frederic Rzewski, Attica/Coming Together/Les Moutons De Panurge (Opus One, 1974)
• Marianne Schroeder, Braxton & Stockhausen (hat ART, 1984)
• Yoshi Wada, Earth Horns With Electronic Drone (Edition, Omega Point, EM 2009)
• Christian Wolff, Ten Exercises (New World, 2006)
• La Monte Young, Dream House 78' 17" (Shandar, 1974)