Décès de Hiram Bullock le 25 juillet 2008 ( 1955-2008 )
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Décès du guitariste jazz/rock Hiram BULLOCK
/ paru le 05/08/2008 /
Hiram Law Bullock est décédé à Manhattan, à l'âge de 52 ans, le 25 juillet dernier. Il souffrait d'un cancer de la gorge et de la langue diagnostiqué en 2007.
Né à Osaka, il est surtout connu comme sessionman hors-pair. Aussi à l'aise dans le domaine de la pop, que du jazz ou de la soul, il a collaboré avec les plus grands.
De 1976 à 2006, sa guitare peut s'entendre sur des albums de David Sanborn (le maître saxophoniste), près de 10 albums en commun, Jaco Pastorius (la série posthume "Live in New-York City"), Carla Bley, Marcus Miller, Gil Evans Orchestra, ...
En 1976, il participe à l'enregistrement du soundtrack de "A Star is Born" (featuring Barbara Streisand). Dès lors de nombreuses stars du rock ou de la pop font appel à ses talents : Billy Joel pour "The Stranger", Paul Simon pour "One Trick Pony", Steely Dan pour "Gaucho", Sting pour "Nothing like the sun" (un solo d'anthologie sur le "Little Wing" de Jimi Hendrix!)... la liste est longue ! Les stars de la soul le connaissent également : Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan, Cissy Houston, Al Jarreau, ...
Mr Bullock a sorti une dizaine albums sous son nom, le dernier en 2005 : "Too funky 2 ignore". Sont crédités sur ce disque : Hiram Bullock (Guitar), Frank Gravis (Bass), Will Lee (Bass), Dave Delhomme (Keys), Randy Brecker (Trumpet), Lew Soloff (Trumpet), Donny McCaslin (Sax), Eric Behrends (Sax), Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez (Drums), Charley Drayton (Drums), Clint DeGanon (Drums), Jeff "Tain" Watts (Drums), Steve Wolf (Drums), Nat Burns (Drums), Jeremy Gaddie (Drums), Peter Kikidakis (Drums) et Marc Quinones (Percussion).
A la fin des seventies/début des eighties, il fait partie du groupe 24th Street Band avec Will Lee (bass, vocals), Clifford Carter (keyboards, vocals), Steve Jordan (drums) et Sammy Figueroa (percussion). Le band sortira 3 albums.
Hiram s'était fait construire sa propre guitare par la manufacture Cort, la HBS-II. Dans le milieu, il était connu pour ses sérieux problèmes de drogues : héroïne, cocaïne et crack l'ont maintenu éloigné des scènes pendant 2 années. En 2003, il chante "...it's not hard to spiral down" sur le titre bien-nommé "After the Fall".
Il a rejoint un autre maître... Ainsi ils pourront jouer "Little Wing" au paradis des guitaristes !
Hiram Bullock was a talented and charismatic guitarist, a rock'n'roller with a jazz head who bridged the world of sophisticated pop and the avant-garde New York jazz scene.
A super-session player, Bullock was mentored by the producer Phil Ramone, and his work can be heard on Steely Dan's Gaucho (1980), Paul Simon's One Trick Pony (1980), Sting's Nothing Like the Sun (1987), Billy Joel's The Stranger (1977) and Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born (1976). He also played with the Brecker Brothers, Jaco Pastorius, Chaka Khan, James Taylor, James Brown and Al Green, among many others. He was a member of one of Miles Davis's last touring groups, and his guitar graced countless jazz albums. Hiram Bullock also put out over a dozen records under his own name.
Bullock was a consummate showman: his live performances were enhanced by his habit of wandering deep into the crowd whilst soloing. "Rock'n'roll guitarists might do that," said the promoter John Cummings, "but it wasn't common at jazz shows. You'd find a sedate jazz audience in Switzerland where the uptight burghers would be surprised by Hiram sitting on their daughters' laps whilst continuing to play. He invented himself as a jazz-rock guitarist and entertainer."
Did such live ostentation from the guitarist reflect the origins of his choice of instrument? "I played bass in my high school rock band (like a million other teenage boys)," Bullock said. "One day our guitarist, who was slightly older and looked like Eric Clapton, passed out while in the middle of the solo on 'Mississippi Queen' (he said later that he was 'tired'). Immediately, 10 girls jumped up onto the stage, stroking, consoling and otherwise 'reviving him'. At that precise moment I decided to switch to guitar."
Hiram Bullock was born in 1955 in Osaka, Japan to parents serving in the US military. When he was two the family returned to the United States, where they settled in Baltimore, Maryland. Hiram studied piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in the city, playing his first recital at the age of six. He also became a fluid saxophone player, and finally made the switch from bass to guitar at 16.
At the celebrated University of Miami music college, Bullock studied alongside Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and Will Lee, discovering musical soul-mates. He paid his way at university by playing nightclub gigs in Florida, and hooked up with the singer Phyllis Hyman. When she landed a recording deal and moved to New York, Bullock went with her.
In Manhattan he made an immediate impact. 'He was a phenomenon,' remembered Jamilla Samuels, a sound engineer at the Mix Studio. "All the players were talking about this new cat in town with this great guitar style. If you had a buzz like that amongst the musicians, it meant you were good. But I noticed that straightaway he fell in with the fast crowd."
Soon Bullock was playing with the master saxophonist David Sanborn and the Brecker Brothers band. He then formed the 24th Street Band with the drummer Steve Jordan, the keyboardist Clifford Carter and bassist Mark Egan, later replaced by Will Lee. Very popular in Japan, the 24th Street Band released two records there, with the keyboard player Paul Schaffer producing the second. Schaffer recruited Bullock, Jordan and Lee for his group the World's Most Dangerous Band, which played on the talk show Late Night With David Letterman from the programme's début in 1982, bringing to national attention the guitarist's habit of performing barefoot.
Other habits also revealed themselves. Bullock was known to suffer from an occasional "attendance problem" on the Letterman show, a consequence of the drug binges associated with the crowd he was hanging out with. He was no stranger to heroin and cocaine, but found his drug of choice when the crack epidemic swept the United States in the mid-1980s.
Most of the time, however, he kept it together. Tour managing him with Carla Bley's group and then with the Gil Evans Orchestra, John Cummings recalled his energetic extroversion: "He used to really tear it up playing with Carla, and even managed to persuade Van Morrison to perform Hiram's own arrangement of Moondance at Gil Evans' 75th birthday concert. He was a great player and a fantastic guy, and he was completely clean."
Yet the effects of Bullock's recreational pursuits soon became evident in his physical shape. From having once seemed the thinnest man on the planet, his body ballooned unflatteringly. His work did not suffer, and he continued to make great records, notably Late Night Talk (1996), an organ session featuring Lonnie Smith on the Hammond B-3, and Try Livin' It (2003), a funk-rock record that highlighted his songwriting skills.
In the autumn of 2007 Bullock was diagnosed with cancer. But his cast-iron constitution pulled him through, and he made a full recovery, setting off immediately on a lengthy tour with the Miles Evans Orchestra. There were no signs of post-operation fatigue; Bullock was playing at his peak. But the old problems remained. The attempt to maintain the post-performance high after the tour's end resulted in another crack binge, one that his depleted body was simply no longer able to endure.
Chris Salewicz
Hiram Law Bullock, guitarist and songwriter: born Osaka, Japan 11 September 1955; married (two stepsons); died New York 25 July 2008.
Ian is a seasoned performer, producer, music publisher and educator. He has played guitar for 36 years and has taught it for 25 years. Ian's books have been published in Australia, NZ and the USA through Warner Chappell Music. As a guitarist Ian has played with Joe Walsh (The Eagles), Frank Gambale (Chick Corea), "Skunk" Baxter (Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers) and Verdine White (Earth, Wind and Fire). He has played the East Coast Blues-Roots Festival (Byron Bay) and has supported Alan Holdsworth, Fleetwood Mac (with the John Paul Young Band), The Electric Light Orchestra, John Mayall (with Langford Lever) and Midnight Oil. Ian's extensive label experience includes; Artist & Repertoire Manager with EMI Records, as a published writer through Warner-Chappell Music, independent Producer with SONY, Albert Productions WEA, EMI and Giant Records and was Australian Record Producer of the Year 1974. Ian has produced recordings for artists such as; John Paul Young, Stevie Wright, The Moir Sisters, Lobby Loyde & The Coloured Balls and Jim Keys.
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