Paul Steinbeck

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Paul Steinbeck (* around 1980 in St. Louis ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass , also bamboo flute, percussion, composition), author and university professor.

Steinbeck received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 2002 ; he completed his PhD in music theory at Columbia University in 2008 . He took double bass lessons with Harrison Bankhead and composition with Ari Brown . In Chicago he worked with Warren Smith , Malachi Thompson and Mwata Bowden in the trio Low End Theory . For Bowden's UChicago X-Tet he wrote the composition Dance Velvet (2001, album Visions of Things to Come ). He led his own groups and is a member of the STL Free Jazz Collective .

Steinbeck has been teaching music theory as Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis since 2012 . His research focuses on improvisation, intermediality and the music of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). In addition to numerous articles (including for Jazz Perspectives , Journal of the Society for American Music, Jazz Hot and the Journal of Music Theory), liner notes and book reviews, he wrote a book about the Art Ensemble of Chicago ( Message to Our Folks ) and with Fred Anderson the textbook Exercises for the Creative Musician (2010).

Discographic notes

  • Nine Ways (Engine Studios, 2004), with Niko Higgins, Warren Smith, Andrew Lamb
  • Three Fifths (Engine Studios, 2005), with Niko Higgins, Andrei Strobert , Warren Smith, Andrew Lamb
  • Sun Set (Engine Studios, 2007), with Warren Smith, Chris Washburne, Malachi Thompson
  • James Hegarty, Paul Steinbeck, Shane Robles Time Space (Kvist Records, 2013)

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personal data
SURNAME Steinbeck, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American college professor, author, and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis