Luke Stewart

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Luke Stewart (* around 1990) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( double bass , electronics, composition ) and music organizer.

Live and act

Stewart, who is active in the Washington DC music scene as a concert organizer and musician, studied with Hamiet Bluiett and from the late 2010s worked with musicians such as William Hooker ( Pillars ... At the Portal , with Jon Irabagon , James Brandon Lewis and Anthony Pirog ) and with James Brandon Lewis ( An UnRuly Manifesto , 2019). Trio OOO is one of his regular ensembles. He is also a member of the experimental electronic group MOM ^ 2 (Mind Over Matter, Music Over Mind), with which he has been invited to perform and speak at the University of South Carolina and to perform at the Sonic Circuits Festival for Experimental Music. He is also a solo performer who has performed original material and improvisations all over the east coast of the US. He can also be heard on albums by the formation Irreversible Entanglements ( Who Sent You?, With Camae Ayewa , Aquiles Navarro , Keir Neuringer , Tcheser Holmes; also with his own compositions) and by Devin Gray's GPS Trio ( Blast Beat Blues , 2019, with Chris Pitsiokos ).

In the band of Melvin Gibbs , Stewart made a guest appearance in New York City at the Vision Festival in 2019 , as a trio with Thurston Moore and Leila Bordreuil in The Stone . He has also performed with musicians such as Jaimie Branch , Daniel Carter , Michael Foster , Shelley Hirsch , Amirtha Kidambi , Brandon Lopez , Brian Settles and Fay Victor . Under his own name he presented the productions Rhizome Residency - Solos and Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier .

In his main job , Stewart is the production coordinator for the station WPFW 89.3FM as well as the host of The Vibes from Overnight Jazz , a weekly jazz program. Through WPFW , he has had the opportunity to work with some pioneering figures in music and social movements such as Chuck Brown, Yusef Lateef , Randy Weston , Muhal Richard Abrams , Juma Sultan and Amiri Baraka .

Luke Stewart is not to be confused with the guitarist of the same name who played with Stuff Smith in the 1940s .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 16, 2020)
  2. ↑ Documented in the respective YouTube videos.
  3. ↑ {{Discogs | Luke Stewart | Luke Stewart}}
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, Luke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1990