George Lewis
George Lewis (George E. Lewis) is an American trombonist, composer and scholar, born in Chicago in 1952. A member of the AACM since 1971, he is known as an improvising trombonist and as a pioneer of interactive computer music, above all through Voyager, the improvising software he developed in the 1980s. He is a professor at Columbia University. George Lewis studied philosophy at Yale, graduating in 1974. His Solo Trombone Record appeared in 1976, and his recordings have been released on Sackville, Black Saint, Incus and Tzadik.
