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George Edward Lewis
A pioneering composer, trombonist, and thinker, his work moves easily between jazz, experimental music, and contemporary classical sound. He is especially known for blending improvisation, technology, and bold musical ideas into something unmistakably his own.
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Black Beaver, the Trapper
by James Campbell Lewis, George Edward Lewis
About the author
Born in Chicago in 1952, George E. Lewis is an American composer, trombonist, and musicologist whose career has stretched across performance, scholarship, and teaching. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 1971, and that community's spirit of experimentation has remained central to his work ever since.
His music spans improvisation, electronic and computer music, opera, and orchestral writing, and he has been widely recognized for pushing past the usual boundaries between genres. Alongside his work as a performer and composer, he has also written influential scholarship on Black experimental music and the AACM.
Lewis teaches at Columbia University, where he has served as the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music and an area chair in composition. Across all of his work, he is known for treating music as a place for curiosity, invention, and serious listening.