Gerry Hemingway


Gerry Hemingway is an American drummer and composer.
Hemingway was a member of the Anthony Braxton quartet from 1983 to 1994. He has also performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George E. Lewis, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don Byron, Cecil Taylor, and Cuong Vu.
Hemingway 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. He has recorded on over one hundred albums for the labels Clean Feed, Enja, hatArt, Palmetto, Random Acoustics, and Tzadik. He owns his own label, Auricle.

Discography

As leader

  • 1979 Kwambe Auricle
  • 1982 Solo Works Auricle
  • 1983–94 Electro-Acoustic Solo Works Random Acoustics 1996
  • 1984–95 Electro-Acoustic Solo Works Random Acoustics 1996
  • 1987 Outer Bridge Crossing Sound Aspects
  • 1988 Tub Works Sound Aspects
  • 1991 Down to the Wire hatArt
  • 1991 View from Points West Music & Arts
  • 1991 Special Detail hatArt
  • 1991-94 Slamadam Random Acoustics 1995
  • 1993 Demon Chaser hatArt,
  • 1994 Saturn Cycle ''' Music & Arts
  • 1995 The Marmalade King hatArt
  • 1996 Perfect World Random Acoustics
  • 1998 Johnny's Corner Song Auricle
  • 1999 Waltzes, Two–Steps & other Matters of the Heart GM
  • 1999 Chamber Works Tzadik
  • 2002 Songs Between the Lines
  • 2002 Double Blues Crossing Between the Lines
  • 2003 Devil's Paradise Clean Feed
  • 2005 The Whimbler Clean Feed
  • 2011 Riptide Clean Feed

As co-leader

With Bass-Drum-Bone
  • 1978 Oahspe
  • 1980 Right Down Your Alley
  • 1986 You Be
  • 1986-96 Cooked To Perfection
  • 1989 Wooferlo
  • 1997 March Of Dimes
  • 1997 Hence The Reason
  • 2005 The Line Up
  • 2009 The Other Parade
  • 2016 The Long Road
With WHO trio
  • 1999 Identity
  • 2004 The Current Underneath
  • 2009 Less Is More
  • 2014 The ''WHO Zoo
  • 2020 Strell''

As sideman

With Ralph AlessiIt's Always Now
With Anthony BraxtonFour Compositions (Quartet) 1983 Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance) Quartet (London) 1985 Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 Quartet (Coventry) 1985 Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988 Willisau (Quartet) 1991 (Victoriaville) 1992 Twelve Compositions Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 Old Dogs
With Samuel BlaserA Mirror to Machaut Fourth Landscape Oostum Early in the Mornin Moods
With Marilyn CrispellThe Kitchen Concert Circles Santuerio Highlights from the Summer of 1992 American Tour Cascades MGM Trio with Michael MooreAffinities Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton Table of Changes
With Maybe MondayUnsquare
With Reggie WorkmanImages Altered Spaces