James Chance  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Redirected from James White)
Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop

Featured:

James Chance aka James White (born April 20, 1953 as James Siegfried in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American saxophonist, songwriter and singer.

A key figure in No Wave Chance has been playing a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene since the late 1970s, in such bands as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks, The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, and James Chance and Terminal City.

Chance differed from some of his No Wave compatriots by possessing (and demanding from his band) a certain level of musical skill and talent. His music is frequently described as combining the freeform playing of Ornette Coleman with the solid funk rhythm of James Brown, though filtered through a punk rock lens. Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again : Postpunk 1978-1984, wrote:

And although "affection" is possibly an odd word to use in reference to a bunch of nihilists, I do feel fond of the No Wave people. James Chance's music actually stands up really well, I think. (Listen to James Chance & the Contortions, "Contort Yourself," 1979.) [1]
[edit]

Discography

  • Pre-Teenage Jesus, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (EP ZE 1978)
  • No New York (compilation Antilles 1978) (with The Contortions)
  • Buy[2] (ZE-Arista 1979) (The Contortions)
  • Theme from Grutzi Elvis (EP ZE 1979)
  • Off White (ZE-Buddah 1979) (James White & The Blacks)
  • Second Chance (ZE-PVC 1980)
  • Live aux Bains Douches (Fr. Invisible 1980) (The Contortions)
  • Live in New York (cassette tape ROIR 1981) (The Contortions)
  • Sax Maniac (Animal 1982) (James White & The Blacks)
  • James White Presents The Flaming Demonics (ZE-Island 1983)
  • Melt Yourself Down (Selfish Records Japan 1986)
  • Soul Exorcism (tape ROIR 1991) (The Contortions)
  • Lost Chance (ROIR 1995)
  • Molotov Cocktail Lounge (Enemy Records / Zebralution 1996)
  • No Exit (Blondie album), Blondie guest artist, alto sax (Beyond Records 1999)
  • White Cannibal (ROIR 2000)
  • Christmas with Satan (single Tiger Style 2002)
  • Irresistible Impulse (retrospective Tiger Style 2003)
  • Sax Education (2004)
  • James Chance & Terminal City - Get Down and Dirty! (Wind bell 4 2005)
  • Rabble Watchers (guest artist) (Gern Blandsten 2006)
  • Vampire Driver Watchers (guest artist) (Gern Blandsten 2006)


Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "James Chance" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://artandpopularculture.com/James_Chance"
Personal tools
Metas