Gerry Hemingway

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  • Born: New Haven, CT
  • Years Active: 1990s, 2000s

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Gerry Hemingway (b. New Haven, Connecticut, 1955) is an American jazz composer and percussionist.

He has performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don Byron, Cecil Taylor, and Cuong Vu.

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in music composition in 2000, and was a student of Alan Dawson. He is a graduate of Foote School in New Haven. Hemingway appears on over 100 recordings, on labels including Tzadik, Enja, Palmetto, Random Acoustics, Auricle Records, Clean Feed and Hat Art.

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Label Profile: Clean Feed Records

By Peter Margasak, eMusic Contributor

File under: Free jazz, post-bop, improvisation Flagship acts: Ken Vandermark, Marty Ehrlich, Nate Wooley, Gerry Hemingway, Evan Parker, Paal Nilssen-Love Based in: Lisbon, Portugal Like most record labels, the Lisbon jazz imprint Clean Feed Records began modestly when it opened in 2001. The label was, and remains, part of a larger operation founded by Pedro Costa and his brother Carlos, both veterans of Portugal's record business. They started Trem Azul (Portuguese for Blue Train, like the famous John… more »