Colin Stetson

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Colin Stetson ( Moers Festival 2010)

Colin Stetson (born March 3, 1975 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) is a Canadian jazz musician ( alto saxophone , baritone and bass saxophone , clarinet , flute , French horn ) of American origin. He is also active as a film composer.

Live and act

Colin Stetson studied from 1997 at the University of Michigan with Roscoe Mitchell , Donald Sinta and Christopher Creviston; then with Steve Adams and Henry Threadgill . During this time he founded the Transmission formation (which later became the Transmission Trio with Andrew Kitchen and Eric Perney). In 1998 he played with the Detroit jazz rock band Larval ( Larval 2 , Knitting Factory ). He then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area .

Stetson also worked with the band People's Bizarre with Fred Frith , Peter Kowald , Ned Rothenberg and Kenny Wollesen , and he was a bass saxophonist in the touring band of Arcade Fire . In 2002 he worked on the Tom Waits albums Alice and Blood Money ; with Waits he also appeared on David Letterman's Late Show . In 2002 Stetson released a limited live CD single, followed in 2003 by a full album, Slow Descent . In 2008 the solo album New History Warfare, Vol. 1 , followed by New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges (2011), in which Laurie Anderson participated, and New History Warfare, Vol. 3: To See More Light (2013, with Justin Vernon from Bon Iver ). Stetson can also be heard on recordings by Anthony Braxton and Bon Iver. In 2011 he performed in a duo with Mats Gustafsson at the Vancouver Jazz Festival ( Stones , Rune Grammofon , 2013). Stetson's song Awake on Foreign Shores was used in the soundtrack of the Oscar- winning film 12 Years a Slave .

Stetson works without overdubs . With his circular breathing technique he plays seemingly endless arpeggios without stopping, while singing or screaming into the instrument at the same time. This creates polyphonic structures through difference tones , which Stetson microphones using ingenious recording technology in order to record breath, flap noises and room resonances and to give the recording more spatiality.

Stetson has also been active as a composer for film music since 2013, his oeuvre includes more than a dozen productions for film and television.

Stetson has lived in Montréal since 2007 and has been a Canadian citizen since 2011 .

Discography

Under his own name

  • 2003: Slow Descent
  • 2008: New History Warfare, Volume 1
  • 2010: The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man (EP)
  • 2011: New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
  • 2011: Those Who Didn't Run (EP)
  • 2012: Stones (with Mats Gustafsson )
  • 2013: New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
  • 2015: Never Were the Way She Was (with Sarah Neufeld )
  • 2016: Presents Sorrow - A Reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony
  • 2017: All This I Do For Glory
  • 2018: Hereditary
  • 2019: Color Out of Space

Collaborations (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Colin Stetson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry (Radioswissjazz)
  2. ↑ John Eyles: Review of the album Mats Gustafsson: Stones (2013) at All About Jazz
  3. ↑ IMDb entry about Colin Stetson .
personal data
SURNAME Stetson, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz musician and composer of American origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA