Ryan Truesdell

Ryan Truesdell (* around 1980 in Verona , Wisconsin ) is an American arranger , composer , copyist , music producer and band leader . He became known in 2012 through his Gil Evans project Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans .

Live and act

Truesdell grew up in Madison, Wisconsin ; his mother played the piano. As a child he learned piano and violin; while in high school he learned the oboe and saxophone. He studied music education and classical and jazz saxophone at the University of Minnesota . In addition, he worked as an orchestra conductor with the performance of works by Dello Joio and Paul Hindemith . At the New England Conservatory he studied composition with Bob Brookmeyer , whose album Bob Brookmeyer with the NDR Big Band (2010) he produced. He worked in the Maria Schneider Orchestra in the 2000s , first as a copyist, then as tour manager, arranger, composer and co-producer of the albums Concert in the Garden (2004) and Sky Blue (2007). In 2008 he composed for Todd Coolman ( Perfect Strangers ). From 2011 he realized the Gil Evans project Centennial ; In 2015 he published the follow-up album Lines of Color . Truesdell lives in New York City.

Truesdell wrote compositions and arrangements a. a. for Ingrid Jensen / US Air Force Band of the Pacific, Frank Kimbrough / University of Minnesota's Jazz Ensemble and received a composition commission for the New York Youth Symphony's Jazz Band Classic , which premiered in 2009 at Jazz at Lincoln Center .

His brother Mike Truesdell is a jazz drummer.

In 2014, his Gil Evans Project Centennial won the Down Beat Critic Polls in the Rising Star Big Band category and won as arranger.

Web links

• Web presence
• The Gil Evans Project
• Ryan Truesdell at Allmusic (English)
• Ryan Truesdell at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Truesdell brothers show off their talents in Europe
2. ^ ^{A b} Victor Schermer: Ryan Truesdell: The Gil Evans Project (2012) in All About Jazz