David Tronzo

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David Tronzo (born December 13, 1957 in Rochester , New York ) is an American fusion guitarist . With his percussive playing he is considered one of the most important innovators on the slide guitar .

Live and act

Tronzo apprenticed to blues guitarists before settling in New York City in the late 1980s . He was a member of Wayne Horvitz 'band The President and founded the trio Spanish Fly in 1993 with Steven Bernstein and tuba player Marcus Rojas , which moved between futuristic old-time jazz and rock adaptations. In 1994 he played the duo album Night in Amnesia with Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels . He was then part of the Lounge Lizards and had his own trios with the drummers Jeff Hirshfield and Ben Perowsky and the bassists Brad Jones , Stomu Takeishi and JA Granelli as well as the saxophonist Peter Epstein . Then he lived in Amsterdam for a few years and toured with Ray Anderson (including the Montreal Jazz Festival 1997). On his return to New York, he founded the Slow Poke quartet (with Michael Blake , Kenny Wollesen and Tony Scherr ), which played fake jazz . At the turn of the millennium he largely withdrew and was occasionally heard as accompanist, to return in 2007 in the film Talking Guitars and in 2008 with Giacomo Merega and Noah Kaplan with the album The Light and Other Things .

Tronzo has been teaching at the Berklee School of Music since 2003 .

Awards

In 1993 he was named one of the top 100 guitarists of the 20th century by Musician's Magazine Press Poll . In 1997 he was featured in Guitar Player as one of the Dirty Thirty Pioneers and Trailblazers .

Discographic notes

Own albums

With the Tronzo Trio

With Spanish Fly

  • Rags to Britches (Knitting Factory Works, 1994)
  • Fly by Night (Accurate, 1996)

With slow poke

  • Redemption (Intuition, 2000)

Collaborations

  • with Reeves Gabrels - Night in Amnesia (Upstart, 1995)
  • with Jerry Granelli and Peter Epstein - Crunch (Love Slave, 1999)
  • with Peter Herbert - Segments (Aziza Music, 2000)
  • with the Paul Weiling Trio - New Amsterdam Reflections (LopLop, 2003)
  • with Hannes Loeschel and Achim Tang - Kinds: The Very Life of Art (Loewenhertz, 2005)
  • with Stephen Vitiello - Scratchy Monsters, Laughing Ghosts (New Albion, 2005)
  • with Giacomo Merega and Noah Kaplan - The Light and Other Things (Creative Nation, 2008)

On albums by other musicians

Lexigraphic entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so Wolf Kampmann
personal data
SURNAME Tronzo, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tronzo, David Richard; Tronzo, David; Tronzo, Dave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York , USA