b. 29 June 1935, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Trombonist Priester began his professional career with Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley; he then changed direction to join Sun Ra And His Arkestra. In the late 50s Priester was with Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington and Max Roach. Most of the 60s were spent in studio work in New York, with a brief spell with Duke Ellington at the end of the decade. In the early 70s he played with Herbie Hancock, then moved to San Francisco (along the way adopting the name Pepo Mtoto). In the late 70s he worked and recorded with Stanley Cowell and Red Garland and in the 80s was featured with the George Gruntz big band and in the Dave Holland quintet. A powerful player with an inquiring mind, Priester's 70s work, which included explorations of electronics and other artificially created musical sounds, took him from the centre of the jazz scene and into the world of contemporary composers such as John Cage. He worked with Jane Ira Bloom in the mid-90s.

Listen to Julian Priester at Finetune.

• (2005)  Love, Love

• Prologue / Love, Love
• Images / Eternal Worlds / Epilogue

• Art Ensemble of Chicago
• Keith Jarrett
• Arthur Blythe
• Booker Little
• Charlie Haden
• Eric Dolphy
• Lennie Tristano
• Jack DeJohnette
• Cecil Taylor
• Charles Mingus
• John Coltrane
• Ornette Coleman
• Pharoah Sanders
• Age of Silence
• Bobby Hutcherson
• Curtis Fowlkes
• Dog Fashion Disco
• Graham Haynes
• Izumi Tateno (Piano)
• John Zorn

• mross
• eddielin11
• matrix2infinity
• paulheetebrij

• matrix2infinity on 2007-11-03 01:00:56.077:
  He is a long-road-distance-runner of the jazz,using influences and creativity to make explorations in the sound world. Brilliant!!!