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Bill Cole


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American jazz musician, composer, educator and writer, born 1937 in Pittsburgh; leader of The Untempered Ensemble; Artistic Director of Shadrack, Inc. His primary instruments are Asian double reed horns, including Chinese sonas, Korean hojok and piri, Indian shenai and nagaswarm, Ghanaian bamboo flute, Tibetan trumpet, and digeridoo. Before his retirement he was a full professor at Dartmouth College's Music Department.

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Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble
Margaret And Katie
2022, CD, Bill Cole, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Bill Cole & Untempered Ensemble*
Music For Yoruba Proverbs - Recorded Live at Symphony Space, New York City
2019, 2xCD, Not On Label (Bill Cole Self-released), ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble
The Living Lives Not Among The Dead. Why Seek It There?
2018, CD, Bill Cole, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
William Parker
For Those Who Are, Still
2015, 3xCD, Album, Ltd, Box, AUM Fidelity, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Contemporary
William Parker
Conversations II Dialogues & Monologues
2015, CD, Rogueart, ,
Free Jazz/Interview
Joseph Daley*
Portraits: Wind, Thunder And Love
2014, CD, Album, JoDaMusic
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble
Sunsum
2014, CD, Bill Cole, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
William Parker, Jeff Schlanger
Chile - New York - AfghanIraq
2013, DVD-V, NTSC, Witnissimo
Untempered Ensemble*
Untempered Ensemble
2011, CD, Album, Shadrack
Beat Circus
Boy From Black Mountain
2009, CD, Album, Cuneiform Records, ,
Bluegrass/Neofolk
William Parker
Double Sunrise Over Neptune
2008, CD, Album, AUM Fidelity, ,
Free Jazz
Jayne Cortez And The Firespitters With Special Guests*
Find Your Own Voice (Poetry And Music 1982-2003)
2006, CD, Comp, Bola Press,
Alan Silva / Kidd Jordan / William Parker
Emancipation Suite #1
2002, CD, Album, Boxholder Records
Bill Cole And The Untempered Ensemble*
Duets & Solos Volume 2
2001, CD, Album, Boxholder Records
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble
Live In Greenfield, Massachusetts, November 20, 1999
2000, 2xCD, Boxholder Records, ,
Free Jazz
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble
Duets & Solos Volume 1
2000, CD, Boxholder Records, ,
Free Jazz
Blaise Siwula
The Low Blow
2000, CDr, Album, Not On Label (Blaise Siwula Self-released), ,
Free Jazz
Various
Vision Volume One: Vision Festival 1997 Compiled
1998, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, AUM Fidelity, ,
Free Jazz
Jayne Cortez
Everywhere Drums
1990, ,
Free Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Spoken Word/Poetry
Warren Smith
Studio WIS 20th Anniversary Concert
1988, Cass, Album, Miff Music Company, ,
Free Jazz
Jayne Cortez And The Firespitters
There It Is
1982, LP, Album, Bola Press, ,
Free Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Political/Poetry/Spoken Word
Jayne Cortez
Unsubmissive Blues
1980, LP, Album, Bola Press, ,
Free Jazz/Political/Spoken Word/Poetry
Triumvirat
À La Carte
1978
Various
Sound Image (Number 1, 1975)
1975
The University of Washington Husky Marching Band
Go Huskies Go
1964, LP, Album, The University Of Washington, Seattle
The Johnny Mann Singers
If I Loved You and other hits of the day
Vinyl, ,
Easy Listening