Russell Gunn

Russell Gunn (born October 20, 1971 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American trombonist , trumpeter , flugelhorn player , keyboardist and percussionist of modern jazz .

Live and act

Russell Gunn grew up in East St. Louis and won an amateur trumpet competition in 1989, but initially engaged in hip-hop . He then played in the band of Oliver Lake and went in the early 1990s to New York, where he worked in the neo-bop jazz -Jazzszene with Branford Marsalis ' band Buckshot LaFonque and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and worked on albums by Wynton Marsalis , Greg Tardy , James Hurt and Carlos Garnett with. In 1992 he recorded his first album as a leader for the jazz label High Note Records ( Gunn Fu ) with Hurt, Tardy and Stefon Harris and Eric Revis . His albums Ethnomusicology Vol. 1 in 2000 (and Vol. 2 in 2002) were nominated for the Grammy , in which - similar to the Buckshot LaFonque project Marsalis' - he incorporates contemporary styles such as rhythm and blues and hip-hop.

Gunn is currently working with the Ensemble Bionic , with whom he recorded the album Krunk Jazz , and with the smaller formation Electrik Butterfly.

Discographic notes

As a leader

• 1996 - Gun Fu (High Note)
• 1997 - Love Requiem (High Note)
• 1998 - Ethnomusicology Vol. 1 (High Note)
• 1999 - Smokin 'Gunn (High Note)
• 2004 - Mood Swings (High Note)

As a sideman and co-leader

• 1994 - Oliver Lake: Dedicated to Dolphy ( Black Saint )
• 1994 - Wynton Marsalis: Blood on the Fields ( Columbia )
• 1997 - Carlos Garnett: Under Nubian Skies (High Note)
• 2003 - Josh Roseman : Treats for the Nightwalker ( Enja )

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Bielefeld catalog jazz . 2001

Web links

• Biography on Russell Gunn's website
• Biography. allaboutjazz.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cit. after Cook & Morton, 629.
2. ↑ Russell Gunn . ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. All about jazz