Roswell Rudd / discography
This discography is an overview of the published records by the jazz musician Roswell Rudd (1935–2017). It includes his albums under his own name (section 1) , collaborative band projects (section 2) , compilations (section 3) and his participation as (guest) soloist in further productions (section 4) . According to discographer Tom Lord , he was involved in 153 recording sessions between 1955 and 2014.
Albums under your own name
This section lists the LPs and CDs released by Roswell Rudd in chronological order by year of recording.
| album | Label | rec | Release | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roswell Rudd | America | 1965 | 1971 | Roswell Rudd with John Tchicai , Finn von Eyben , Louis Moholo . |
| Everywhere | Impulses | 1966 | 1967 | Roswell Rudd with Robin Kenyatta , Giuseppi Logan , Lewis Worrell , Charlie Haden , Beaver Harris |
| Numatik Swing Band | JCOA | 1971 | 1973 | Roswell Rudd and The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, with Michael Krasnov, Mike Lawrence, Enrico Rava , Charles Sullivan , Art Baron , Gary Brocks , Janet Donaruma , Sharon Freeman , Jeffrey Schlegel , Howard Johnson , Bob Stewart , Mike Bresler , Martin Alter , Carlos Ward , Dewey Redman , Charles Davis , Perry Robinson , Hod O'Brien , Charlie Haden , Sirone , Beaver Harris , Lou Grassi , Sue Evans , Danny Johnson, Sheila Jordan |
| Flexible flyers | Arista | 1974 | 1975 | Roswell Rudd (tb, fhr, vcl), Hod O'Brien, Arild Andersen , Barry Altschul , Sheila Jordan |
| Inside job | Arista | 1976 | 1976 | with Enrico Rava, Dave Burrell , Stafford James , Harold White (dr) |
| The Definitive Roswell Rudd | Horo | 1979 | 1979 | Roswell Rudd (tb, p, kb, dr, voc) solo; Ralph Romanelli (voice in "You Don't See My Face" and "Keep Your Heart Right") |
| The Unheard Herbie Nichols , Vol. 2 | CIMP | 1996 | 1997 | Roswell Rudd Trio , with Greg Millar (g, perc), John Bacon, Jr. (d, vib), also Kimmy Hutton, Marc D. Rusch (perc) Robert D. Rusch (perc, voice), Ryan D. Rusch, Susan Rusch (perc) |
| The Unheard Herbie Nichols, Vol. 1 | CIMP | 1996 | 1997 | Roswell Rudd Trio , with Greg Millar, John Bacon, Jr. |
| Broad strokes | Knitting Factory | 1999 | 2000 | Roswell Rudd with Steve Swell , Josh Roseman , Ron Finck (as, cl, fl), Harvey Kaiser (bar, ts, sop, cl), Matthew Finck (git), Bill Dotts (el-b), Ken Filiano , Lou Grassi , Carlos Gomez (perc), Steve Riddick (vcl) and Sheila Jordan, Thurston Moore , Jean-Jacques Avenel , John Betsch and others |
| Roswell Rudd & Yomo Toro with Bobby Sanabria & Ascension | Sunnyside | 2002-06 | 2007? | Big band, among others with George Cables , Gene Jefferson |
| Blue Mongol | Sunnyside | 2004 | 2005 | Roswell Rudd & The Mongolian Buryat Band |
| Trombone tribe | Sunnyside | 2003-08 | 2009? | Rudd with Sex Mob (Steven Bernstein, Doug Wieselman , Briggan Krauss , Marcus Rojas , Tony Scherr , Kenny Wollesen ; 2003), the Gangbé Brass Band of Benin (2007), with Wycliffe Gordon , Eddie Bert , Ray Anderson , Sam Burtis , Josh Roseman , Barry Altschul (2008), with Bonerama (2008) and Steve Swell , Deborah Weisz , Henry Grimes , Bob Stewart, Barry Altschul |
| Roswell Rudd with Gangbé Brass Band of Benin | Sunnyside | 2007 | 2008 | with Magloire Ahouandjinou, Eric Yovogan (tp), Roswell Rudd, Martial Ahouandjinou (tb), Lucien Gbaguidi (sax), James Vodounnon (tu), Benoit Avihoue, Crespin Kpitiki (perc) |
| Keep Your Heart Right | Sunnyside | 2007 | 2008 | Roswell Rudd Quartet with Lafayette Harris , Brad Jones , Sunny Kim (vcl) |
| A side singles | Soundscape | 2008 | 2009? | Roswell Rudd, Michael Doucet (from left), with the Cajun band Beausoleil and Emily Haines (from left) |
| The Incredible Honk | Sunnyside | 2008-10 | 2011 | with John Lindberg , Ken Filiano , David Oquendo , Jimmy Breaux, David Doucet, Aaron Comess, Tommy Alesi, Mitchell Reed, Richard Hammond, Arne Wendt, Lafayette Harris , Ivan Rubenstein-Gillis |
| Trombone for Lovers | Sunnyside | 2013 | 2013 | with Steven Bernstein , John Medeski , Dennis Nelson (p), Bob Dorough , Gary Lucas , Ira Coleman (b), Fay Victor , Jana Ballard (cond, dir) |
Collaborative band projects
| album | Musician band project | Label | rec | Release | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early and Late | Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd Quartet | Cuneiform | 1962 | ? | Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Bob Cunningham , Denis Charles (1962) or Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Jean-Jacques Avenel , John Betsch (1999) |
| Schooldays - A 1963 Live Session Released for the First Time | Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd Quartet | Emanem | 1963 | 1975 | Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Henry Grimes , Denis Charles |
| New York Eye and Ear Control | New York Eye and Ear Control | ESP disk | 1964 | 1965? | Don Cherry , Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai , Albert Ayler , Michael Snow , Gary Peacock , Sunny Murray |
| New York Art Quartet 1964–1965: Call It Art | New York Art Quartet | Triple point | 1964 | 2013 | Alan Shorter , Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai , Lewis Worrell , JC Moses , Milford Graves |
| New York Art Quartet | New York Art Quartet | ESP disk | 1964 | 1965 | Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Lewis Worrell, Milford Graves, Leroi Jones |
| Old stuff | New York Art Quartet | Cuneiform | 1965 | 2010 | Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Finn von Eyben , Louis Moholo (recordings from Copenhagen) |
| Trickles | Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Kent Carter , Beaver Harris | Black Saint | 1976 | 1976 | |
| Blown-bone | Roswell Rudd - Steve Lacy - Sheila Jordan | Philips | 1976 | 1979 | Rudd, Kenny Davern , Steve Lacy , Tyrone Washington , Patti Bown , Louisiana Red , Wilbur Little , Paul Motian , Jordan Steckel and Rudd with Enrico Rava , Steve Lacy, Wilbur Little, Paul Motian, Sheila Jordan. |
| Maine | Hans Dulfer / Roswell Rudd / Arjen Gorter / Martin van Duynhoven | BV Haast | 1976 | 1977 | |
| Sharing | Roswell Rudd - Giorgio Gaslini Duo | Dischi della Quercia | 1978 | 1978 | |
| regeneration | Roswell Rudd / Steve Lacy / Misha Mengelberg / Kent Carter / Han Bennink | Soul note | 1982 | 1983 | |
| Woyzeck's Death | Allen Lowe - Roswell Rudd | enja | 1994 | 1995 | with Randy Sandke , Ben Goldberg , Andy Shapiro (p, synt), Jeff Fuller (kb), Ray Kaczynski (dr) |
| Rumors of an incident | Elton Dean Quartet / Roswell Rudd | Slam | 1996 | 1997 | Roswell Rudd, Elton Dean, Alex Maguire , Marcio Mattos , Mark Sanders |
| Bladik | Elton Dean / Paul Dunmall / Tony Levin / Paul Rogers / Roswell Rudd / Keith Tippett | Cuneiform | 1996 | 1997 | |
| Four | From Baars Trio & Roswell Rudd | DATA | 1998 | 2001 | Roswell Rudd, Ab Baars, Wilbert de Joode , Martin van Duynhoven |
| The Roswell Incident | Glen Hall and OutSource with Roswell Rudd | Leo | 1999 | 2001 | Roswell Rudd, Glen Hall, Allan Molnar , Michael Occhipinti , Michael Morse (kb), Barry Romberg (dr) |
| 35th reunion | New York Art Quartet | DIW | 1999 | 2000 | Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai , Reggie Workman , Milford Graves , Amiri Baraka |
| Monk's Dream | Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd | verve | 1999 | 1999 | Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Jean-Jacques Avenel , John Betsch , Irène Aebi |
| Eventuality | Charlie Kohlhase Quintet / Roswell Rudd | Nada | 2000 | 2000 | with John Carlson (tp) Roswell Rudd, Matt Langley , John Turner (b), Johnny McLellan (dr) |
| MaliCool | Roswell Rudd / Toumani Diabate | Sunnyside | 2000 | 2001? | with Roswell Rudd, Toumani Diabate (kora), Lassana Diabate (balophone), Basseko Kouyate (ngone), Sayon Sissoko (git), Henry Schroy (kb), Sekou Diabate (djembe), Mamadou Kouyate, Dala Diabate (vcl) |
| Live in New York | Archie Shepp & Roswell Rudd | verve | 2000 | 2001 | Roswell Rudd, Grachan Moncur III , Archie Shepp, Reggie Workman , Andrew Cyrille |
| Airwalkers | Roswell Rudd / Mark Dresser | Clean feed | 2004 | 2006 | |
| Double exposure | Riccardo Fassi / Roswell Rudd Quartet | Wide sound | 2006 | 2007? | with Paolino Dalla Porta (kb), Massimo Manzi (dr) |
| El Espíritu Jíbaro | Roswell Rudd & Yomo Toro | Sunnyside | 2002-06 | 2007 | |
| Keeping the Hussies at Bay | Roswell Rudd & Michel Doucet with Beausoleil | Soundscape | ? | 2008 | |
| C'etait dans la Nuit | Roswell Rudd / Michel Doucet / Emily Haines | Soundscape | ? | 2008 | |
| The Light | The Second Approach Trio with Roswell Rudd | Solyd | 2007 | 2009 | Roswell Rudd, Andrei Razin (p, perc, vcl), Igor Ivanushkin (b, perc), Tatyana Komova (vcl, perc) |
| Strength & Power | Roswell Rudd / Jamie Saft / Trevor Dunn / Balázs Pándi | Rare noise | 2014 | 2016 | |
| August Love Song | Roswell Rudd, Heather Masse | Red House | ? | 2016 | with Mark Helias , Rolf Sturm |
| Embrace | Roswell Rudd, Fay Victor , Lafayette Harris , Ken Filiano | RareNoise Records | 2016? | 2017 | |
| Ceremonial Healing | Marshall Allen , Danny Ray Thompson , Jamie Saft , Trevor Dunn , Balázs Pándi , Roswell Rudd | RareNoise Records | ? | 2019 | - |
Compilations
| album | Musician band project | Label | rec | Release | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed | The Cecil Taylor Unit / Roswell Rudd Sextet | Impulses | 1963 | 1998 | Originally published as Into the Hot and Everywhere (Impulse AS-9126) |
| That's The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk | VA | AT THE | 1984 | 1985 | Rudd in "In Walked Budd", with Bruce Fowler , Phil Teele (b-tb), Tom Fowler (kb), Chester Thompson |
| Open house | Roswell Rudd | Musica jazz | ? | 2008 | The compilation contains recordings of Roswell Rudd as a soloist as well as with Ken Filiano , Ab Baars , Charlie Kohlhase , the Nexus Orchestra 2001, Steve Lacy / Misha Mengelberg and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra ( Malicool Medley ). |
Albums as a soloist in other productions
| album | Artist | Label | rec | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eli's Chosen Six | Eli's Chosen Six | Columbia | 1955 | Rudd's first recording sessions with the Dixieland band Eli's Chosen Six , consisting of Lee Lorenz (tp), Roswell Rudd (tb), Pete Williams (cl, sop), Dick Voigt (p), Bobby Morgan (kb), Lyman Drake (dr). |
| Cell Walk for Celeste | Cecil Taylor | Candid | 1961 | with Archie Shepp , Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles as well as Clark Terry , Steve Lacy, Charles Davis , Billy Higgins (Rudd not on all titles) |
| Jumpin 'punkins | Cecil Taylor | Victor / Candid | 1961 | with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles as well as Clark Terry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Charles Davis, Billy Higgins (Rudd not on all titles) |
| New York City R&B | Buell Neidlinger (or Cecil Taylor) | Candid / CBS-Sony | 1961 | Buell Neidlinger / Cecil Taylor with Clark Terry , Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy , Archie Shepp, Charles Davis, Billy Higgins |
| Into the hot | Cecil Taylor Orchestra | Impulses | 1961 | with Ted Curson , Roswell Rudd (in "Pots"), Jimmy Lyons , Archie Shepp , Cecil Taylor, Henry Grimes , Sunny Murray |
| Four for Trane | Archie Shepp | Impulses! | 1964 | with Alan Shorter , Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai , Reggie Workman , Charles Moffett |
| Communication | The Jazz Composer's Orchestra | Font | 1965 | Michael Mantler (cond), Roswell Rudd, Willie Ruff , Steve Lacy, John Tchicai, Jimmy Lyons , Archie Shepp, Fred Pirtle , Paul Bley , Eddie Gomez , Milford Graves , Carla Bley (arr) |
| Live in San Francisco | Archie Shepp | Impulses | 1966 | with Roswell Rudd, Raphael Donald Garrett , Lewis Worrell , Beaver Harris |
| Mama Too Tight | Archie Shepp | Impulses! | 1966 | with Tommy Turrentine , Roswell Rudd, Grachan Moncur III , Perry Robinson , Howard Johnson , Charlie Haden , Beaver Harris |
| Until | Robin Kenyatta | Vortex | 1967 | with Mike Lawrence , Roswell Rudd, Lewis Worrell, Horacee Arnold , Archie Lee (perc) |
| Life [sic] at the Donaueschingen Music Festival | Archie Shepp | Saba / MPS | 1967 | with Roswell Rudd, Grachan Moncur III , Jimmy Garrison , Beaver Harris |
| The Jazz Composers' Orchestra | The Jazz Composers' Orchestra | JCOA | 1967 | Michael Mantler (comp, cond), Lloyd Michaels , Steve Furtado , Jimmy Knepper , Jack Jeffers , Bob Northern , Julius Watkins , Howard Johnson , Steve Marcus , Al Gibbons , Frank Wess , Bob Donovan , Lew Tabackin , George Barrow , Charles Davis , Carla Bley , Ron Carter , Eddie Gomez , Charlie Haden , Steve Swallow , Reggie Johnson , Beaver Harris , Larry Coryell , Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders |
| Escalator over the hill | Carla Bley | JCOA | 1968-71 | |
| Liberation Music Orchestra | Charlie Haden | Impulses! | 1969 | |
| Cancion | Gato Barbieri | Flying Dutchman | 1969 | with Roswell Rudd, Lonnie Liston Smith (p) Charlie Haden (b) Beaver Harris (d) Richard "Pablo" Landrum (perc) |
| The New Village on the Left | Marcello Melis | Black Saint | 1976 | with Enrico Rava , Roswell Rudd, Famoudou Don Moye , The Rubanu Vocal Quartet (Egidio Muscau, Antonio Buffa, Sebastiano Piras, Nicolo G.) |
| Dinner music | Carla Bley | watt | 1976 | with Michael Mantler , Roswell Rudd, Bob Stewart, Carlos Ward , Richard Tee , Cornell Dupree , Eric Gale , Gordon Edwards , Steve Gadd |
| His Master's Bones | Gary Windo | Cuneiform | 1976 | Baden-Baden Workshop Band , with Michael Mantler, Roswell Rudd, Albert Mangelsdorff , Bob Stewart, Gary Windo, Urs Leimgruber , Wolfgang Dauner , Carla Bley , Christy Doran , Hugh Hopper , Bo Stief , Aldo Romano , Edward Vesala ; other tracks from Gary Windo's album in other line-ups. |
| European Tour 1977 | Carla Bley | watt | 1977 | with Michael Mantler, Roswell Rudd, John Clark , Bob Stewart, Elton Dean , Gary Windo , Terry Adams , Hugh Hopper, Andrew Cyrille |
| Enrico Rava Quartet | Enrico Rava | ECM | 1978 | with Roswell Rudd, Jean-François Jenny-Clark , Aldo Romano |
| Laboratorio della Quercia | Laboratorio della Quercia | Horo | 1978 | with Kenny Wheeler , Alberto Corvini, Enrico Rava, Danilo Terenzi, Roswell Rudd, Evan Parker , Maurizio Giammarco , Steve Lacy, Steve Potts , Eugenio Colombo , Massimo Urbani , Maurizio Giammarco , Tommaso Vittorini , Frederic Rzewski , Martin Joseph , Tristan Honsinger , Irène Aebi , Kent Carter , Roberto Bellatalla , Noel McGhie , Roberto Gatto , Paul Lytton |
| Austin Texas March 27th 1878 | Carla Bley | Hihat | 1978 | with Michael Mantler, John Clark, Roswell Rudd, George Lewis , Bob Stewart, Alan Braufman , Gary Windo , Blue Gene Tyranny , Patty Price , Phillip Wilson (presumably robbery) |
| Musique Mecanique | Carla Bley | watt | 1978 | with Michael Mantler, Roswell Rudd, John Clark, Bob Stewart, Alan Braufman, Gary Windo, Terry Adams , Eugene Chadbourne , Charlie Haden , Steve Swallow , D. Sharpe , Karen Mantler |
| Divine song | Sangeeta Michael Berardi | New Pulse Artists | 1979 | with Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp, Eddie Gomez , Rashied Ali , Mario Pavone |
| Interpretations of Monk | Muhal Richard Abrams | DIW | 1981 | only on some tracks with Don Cherry , Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy , Charlie Rouse , Richard Davis , Ben Riley ; Announcer: Amiri Baraka |
| Interpretations of Monk | Anthony Davis | DIW | 1981 | only on some tracks with Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Charlie Rouse, Richard Davis, Ben Riley |
| Interpretations of Monk | Barry Harris | DIW | 1981 | only on some tracks with Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Charlie Rouse, Richard Davis, Ed Blackwell |
| Interpretations of Monk | Sometimes Waldron | DIW | 1981 | only on some tracks with Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Charlie Rouse, Richard Davis, Ed Blackwell |
| Associates | Steve Lacy | New tone | 1992 | Duo Lacy / Rudd in "Pannonica" |
| Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground | Allen Lowe and the American Song Project Featuring Roswell Rudd | Music & Arts | 1993 | |
| Darn It! Poems by Paul Haines | Paul Haines | American Clave | 1993 | only on the tracks “Darn It! Reprise (Down In Back!) "And" C'etait dans la nuit " |
| Terrible | Terry Adams | New World | 1995 | Big Band |
| Out and About | Steve Swell Quartet | CIMP | 1996 | Steve Swell, Roswell Rudd, Ken Filiano , Lou Grassi |
| Hallucinations: Music and Words for William S. Burroughs | Glen Hall | Leo | 1997 | with Roswell Rudd, Nilan Perara, Allan Molnar, John Gzowski, Kim Ratcliff, Rob Clutton , Don Thompson , John Lennard, Barry Elmes, Georgie McDonald, Judith Merrill |
| Newsense | Elton Dean | Slam | 1997 | with Jim Dvorak , Roswell Rudd, Annie Whitehead , Paul Rutherford , Alex Maguire , Marcio Mattos , Roberto Bellatalla , Mark Sanders |
| Swimmers | The Dave Pier Quintet with Roswell Rudd | Wake up | 2000 | Greg Glassman (tp), Roswell Rudd (in "Dead Ends"), Jon Arons, Dave Pier, Jason Kriveloff, Ian Riggs, Qasim Naqvi |
| Seize the time! | The Nexus Orchestra 2001 | Splasc (H) | 2001 | with Herb Robertson , Luca Calabrese , Roswell Rudd, Lauro Rossi , Giancarlo Schiaffini , Beppe Caruso (tb), Renato Geremia (fl, as, sop), Roberto Ottaviano (sop), Riccardo Luppi (as, fl, pic), Achille Succi (as, b-cl), Daniele Cavallanti (ts, bar), Alberto Tacchini (p), Roberto Cecchetto (git), Tito Mangialajo Rantzer , Piero Leveratto , Giovanni Maier (kb), Tiziano Tononi |
| The Duck's Palace | Duck Baker | Incus | 1993 | Duo Rudd / Baker in "Pavement Blues" |
| Dime Grind Palace | Sex mob | Rodeadope | 2002 | with Steven Bernstein , Briggan Krauss , Tony Scherr , Kenny Wollesen and guest musicians Roswell Rudd, Marcus Rojas , Doug Wieselman , Scott Robinson , Peter Apfelbaum , Brian Mitchell , John Kruth , Dave Tronzo , Mark Stewart |
| Indestructible | Anita O'Day | Kajo | 2005 | with Joe Wilder , Steve Fishwick , Roswell Rudd, Tommy Morimoto , Lafayette Harris, Jr. , John Colliani , Chip Jackson , Sean Smith, Eddie Locke , Matt Fishwick |
| Monk's Bones | Monk's Music Trio | CMB | 2004 | with Max Perkoff , Roswell Rudd, Si Perkoff , Sam Bevan , Chuck Bernstein |
| Concertos | Michael Mantler | ECM | 2007-08 | in a one-movement concerto with the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin under the direction of Roland Kluttig ; Soloists in the other pieces are Bjarne Roupé , Bob Rockwell , Pedro Carneiro , Majella Stockhausen , Nick Mason |
| Delta Berimbau Blues | Chuck Bernstein | CMB | 2007-08 | Big Band |
| Give Peace Some Chants | Charlie Keil & the New York Path to Peace | NY Path to Peace | 2009 | with Greg Glassman, Bill Benzon (tp, perc), Steve Swell , Sam Kulik , Roswell Rudd, Bob Hovey (tb, vcl), Charlie Keil (v-tb, perc, vcl), Enrique Fernandez (as, vcl), Don Slatoff (ts, b-cl, vcl), Dan Peck (tu, vcl), Chris Stromquist (dr), Allen Farmelo (perc, vcl) |
| Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz | Daniel Smith | Summit | 2010 | with Roswell Rudd, Daniel Kelly (p), Sandro Albert (g), Michael O'Brien, (kb), Vincent Ector (dr), Neil Clarke (perc). |
| Blues and the Empirical Truth | Allen Lowe Featuring Roswell Rudd, Marc Ribot , Matthew Shipp and Lewis Porter | Music & Arts | 2010? | ed. 2011 |
| Cheerin 'Up the Universe | Bob Merrill | Accurate | 2013 | with Roswell Rudd, Harry Allen , Russ Gershon , John Medeski , Matthew Fries , John Van Eps , Drew Zingg (g), Nicki Parrott , George Schuller , Vicente Lebron (perc) Gabrielle Agachiko (vcl) |
Web links / sources
- Roswell Rudd at Allmusic (English)
- Tom Lord Jazz Discography (online)
- Roswell Rudd at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 23, 2017)
- ↑ This recording from Radio Hilversum of the collaborative New York Art Quartet appeared as a robbery under Rudd's name. See Clifford Allen Encore: Finn von Eyben , New York City Jazz Record 175 (November 2016), p. 10
- ↑ The CD edition (Emanem 4131) also contains Roswell Rudd's Sessions on 1967 with Robin Kenyatta, Karl Berger , Lewis Worrell, Richard Youngstein (b), Horacee Arnold (dr).