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Douglas Ewart
Douglas Ewart
American musician
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Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith
American jazz trumpeter and composer
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J. D. Parran
J. D. Parran
American musician
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Phillip Wilson
Phillip Wilson
American drummer (1941-1992)
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Edward Wilkerson
Edward Wilkerson
American bandleader
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Richard Teitelbaum
Richard Teitelbaum
American composer
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Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
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Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
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Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson
American trombonist/jazz/trumpet player
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Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
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Barry Altschul
Barry Altschul
American drummer
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Thurman Barker
Thurman Barker
American jazz drummer
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Iqua Colson
Iqua Colson
vocalist, composer, lyricist, arts administrator, and educator from the United States
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Leroy Jenkins
Leroy Jenkins
composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist
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Bobby Naughton
Bobby Naughton
American musician
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Carlos Zingaro
Carlos Zingaro
Portuguese violinist
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Nicole Mitchell
Nicole Mitchell
American jazz flutist
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Marty Ehrlich
Marty Ehrlich
American musician
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Irène Schweizer
Irène Schweizer
Swiss musician
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Bob Ostertag
Bob Ostertag
American musician
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Charles "Bobo" Shaw
Charles "Bobo" Shaw
American musician
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Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill
American jazz musician
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Paul Rutherford
Paul Rutherford
English free improvising trombonist
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Ned Rothenberg
Ned Rothenberg
American composer
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Joëlle Léandre
Joëlle Léandre
French double bassist, vocalist and composer
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Chris Brown
Chris Brown
American composer, pianist and electronic musician
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Dave Taylor
Dave Taylor
American musician
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Vinny Golia
Vinny Golia
American musician
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Paul Lovens
Paul Lovens
German musician
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Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka
American composer
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Lauren Newton
Lauren Newton
American singer
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Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
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John Zorn
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
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Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake
American musician
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Karl Berger
Karl Berger
German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer
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Tom Varner
Tom Varner
American musician
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Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
British guitarist
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Susie Ibarra
Susie Ibarra
American musician
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Mark Helias
Mark Helias
American musician
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Ernest Dawkins
Ernest Dawkins
jazz musician
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Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer, and philosopher
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Human Arts Ensemble
Human Arts Ensemble
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Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
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Tom Cora
Tom Cora
American cellist and composer
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Karlheinz Essl
Karlheinz Essl
Austrian composer
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Byard Lancaster
Byard Lancaster
American saxophonist
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Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake
American musician
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Tomeka Reid
Tomeka Reid
American jazz musician
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Amina Claudine Myers
Amina Claudine Myers
American musician
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Steve McCall
Steve McCall
American jazz drummer
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Polly Bradfield
Polly Bradfield
American musician
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Guy Klucevsek
Guy Klucevsek
American musician
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Feminist Improvising Group
Feminist Improvising Group
band
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Tim Perkis
Tim Perkis
American musician
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Sabu Toyozumi
Sabu Toyozumi
Japanese jazz drummer, erhu player (1943-)
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Alvin Curran
Alvin Curran
American musician and composer
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Marcus Rojas
Marcus Rojas
American musician
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Tim Hodgkinson
Tim Hodgkinson
English experimental music composer and performer
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Bobby Previte
Bobby Previte
American drummer
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Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American jazz violonist and composer
George Lewis
composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar

George Lewis

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composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar
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Awards Received
MacArthur Fellows Program
Rome Prize
American Book Awards
honorary doctor of Harvard University
Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

George Emanuel Lewis (born July 14, 1952) is an American composer, performer, and scholar of experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, when he joined the organization at the age of 19. He is renowned for his work as an improvising trombonist and considered a pioneer of computer music, which he began pursuing in the late 1970s; in the 1980s he created Voyager, an improvising software he has used in interactive performances. Lewis's many honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music received the American Book Award. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Composition & Historical Musicology at Columbia University.