# Greg Murphy has been a major contributor to the New York City jazz scene: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/11/30/greg-murphy-has-been-a-major-contributor-to-the-new-york-city-jazz-scene-video-2/
- Published: 2018-11-30T20:28:17+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**01,12. – Happy Birthday !!! Chicago native Greg Murphy has been a major contributor
to the New York City jazz scene since the 1980s and he’s probably best known for
his twenty-two year association with John Coltrane’s multidirectional drummer, Rashied
Ali.**

Greg began his musical adventures in 1971 when he joined the Ray-Fisk Grammar School
Band in Chicago. His classical studies began later that year with Lucia Santini 
at Roosevelt University. Between 1980 and 1984, he played with the jazz/funk band
Lightning Flash Thunder Roar, The University of Illinois at Chicago Big Band, The
Northern Illinois University Big Band, and other local Chicago bands.

A jazz study grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984 gave Greg the
opportunity to go to New Orleans and study with the eminent pianist and jazz educator,
Ellis Marsalis. He remained there and began recording and performing with The New
Orleans Jazz Couriers, Percussion Incorporated, and his own group, The Fusicians.
The Percussion Incorporated album, Drum Talk, (Greg’s first recording) was recorded
and released in 1987. While living in the crescent city, Greg performed with Donald
Harrison, Wynton Marsalis, and countless other great musicians.

Greg moved to New York in 1987 and began what had become a long association with
multi-directional drummer, Rashied Ali. Greg performed and recorded with Ali and
his various groups throughout Europe, Canada, the United States and beyond, from
1987 until Rashied passed away in 2009.

Throughout his career, Greg has performed in Japan, China and The Philippines with
his own trio and other groups. He’s also worked in New York with Ornette Coleman
and in France with Carlos Santana and Archie Shepp. In 2012, Greg recorded the theme
song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” for the HBO documentary Redemption, which 
was produced and directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill. Redemption received
a 2013 Academy Award nomination for best documentary short.

Greg also performed with Jeff “Tain” Watts, Billy Hart, Arthur Taylor, Joe Lovano,
Grachan Moncur, III, Christian McBride, Cindy Blackman, Flava Flav, Charles McPherson,
Larry Ridley, William Parker and Charles Gayle, among many others.

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