Stephan Crump

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Stephan Crump with his group Rhombal at the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt on November 2nd, 2018

Stephan Crump (born February 8, 1972 in Memphis (Tennessee) ) is an American double bass player (also electric bass ) and composer of creative jazz .

Live and act

Crump's mother is from Paris, his father, an architect and jazz drummer, from Memphis, where Stephan Crump grew up. He first learned to play classical piano and alto saxophone before he played bass guitar as a teenager, performed at festivals in the southeastern United States and belonged to a jazz rock trio for which he composed. He received his Bachelor of Music from Amherst College , where he studied with the composer Lewis Spratlin and worked with Max Roach , Frank Foster and Ray Drummond . During this time he switched to the double bass and spent a year abroad in Paris. After finishing college, he toured with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ( Ghost Band ); then he moved to New York and continued his studies with Michael Moore .

Crump has worked in the New York music scene since the 1990s, a. a. with jazz musicians like Dave Liebman , Billy Hart , Sonny Fortune , Greg Osby , Kenny Werner , Bobby Previte , the blues veteran Johnny Copeland and singer-songwriters , including Ashford and Simpson , Michael McDonald , Patti Austin , Jorma Kaukonen and Lucy Kaplansky . Crump has been a member of pianist Vijay Iyer's trio since 1997 and directs the Rosetta Trio (with Liberty Ellman and Jamie Fox ), with which he has released a number of albums. In 1997 his debut album Poems and Other Things appeared , on which Chris Cheek and Roberta Piket participated. He also wrote film music . With Steve Lehman , Mary Halvorson and James Carney , he recorded duo albums. In the field of jazz he was involved in 31 recording sessions between 1995 and 2012, apart from the aforementioned with Joel Harrison , Dan Willis and Rez Abbasi . In 2016 he worked in a trio with Kris Davis and Eric McPherson ; In 2018 he belongs to the Vijay Iyer Sextet and leads the formation Elemental , with Ryan Ferreira (guitar), Michaël Attias (alto saxophone), Ches Smith (percussion, tympani).

Discographic notes

  • Tuckahoe (Accurate, 2001), with Chris Cheek and Miguel Zenón
  • Rosetta (Papillon, 2006), with Liberty Ellman , Jamie Foxx
  • Reclamation ( Sunnyside Records , 2009), with Liberty Ellman, Jamie Foxx
  • Kaleidoscope and Collage ( Intakt Records , 2010), with Steve Lehman
  • Thirl (Sunnyside, 2012), with Liberty Ellman, Jamie Foxx
  • Super Eight (Intakt, 2013), with Mary Halvorson
  • Echo Run Pry ( Clean Feed Records , 2013), with James Carney
  • Thwirl (Sunnyside, 2013), with Liberty Ellman, Jamie Fox
  • Planktonic Finales (Intakt Records, 2017) with Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smithe
  • Borderlands Trio: Asteroidea (Intakt, 2018), with Kris Davis , Eric McPherson
  • Stephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock , Cory Smythe : Channels (Intakt, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, September 16, 2013)
  2. ↑ NYTimes Jazz Listings July 2016
personal data
SURNAME Crump, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American double bass player (also electric bass) and composer of creative jazz
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Memphis (Tennessee)