Long considered a musician’s musician, Mark Whitecage has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists over the past five decades including Eric Dolphy, Anthony Braxton, Paul Motian, Jeanne Lee and Dave Douglas, in a career spanning four decades.  His music reflects an approach to jazz composition and improvisation popular in the vibrant New York loft scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which relatively simple written frameworks allow for extended improvisation.

Mark has explored bop and post-bop, free-wheeling improvisation, electronics, musical opera, music for dance, solo to big band ensembles, even sound collages with homemade instruments.  Whatever the style or setting, Mark Whitecage performs at the highest level of creativity, constantly transforming and reconfiguring his wealth of musical experience to offer a fresh and unique voice in any musical setting.

Born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1937, he began performing at age 6 in his father¹s family band, got his union card at age 12, and has been performing and recording around the world ever since with some of the leading artists of our time in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

His artistry has led to performances at such European festivals as Seixal Jazz 2000, 4° Ciclo de Jazz da Guarda, International Festival de Jazz de Rive de Gier, Banlieues Bleues, Berlin, Moers, Donaueschingen and Maur/Jazz Meets Art, as well as the Texaco and Bell Atlantic New York Jazz, Kool, Greenwich Village, and Vision Festivals in New York.  Other venues where he has performed include Lincoln Center, Carnegie Recital Hall, Museum of Modern Art, and South Street Seaport; universities including Yale, Columbia, and Wesleyan; clubs such as the Blue Note, Knitting Factory, and Visiones in New York, and a variety of clubs and radio stations in Europe.

Mark Whitecage can be heard on over 35 recordings, a number of them award-winning, and 1997 saw his ascent to the Top 30 Musicians in the Cadence magazine Readers/Writers Poll.

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