Steve Colson

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Adegoke Steve Colson (born September 4, 1949 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American jazz pianist , arranger , composer and music teacher.

Life

Colson grew up in East Orange and studied at Northwestern University School of Music. In the early 1970s, he first lived in Chicago , where he became a member of the AACM . From that time on he worked a. a. with musicians such as Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre , Muhal Richard Abrams , Pheeroan AkLaff , Ed Blackwell , Hamiet Bluiett , Kahil El'Zabar , Joseph Jarman , Malachi Favors or Oliver Lake .

In 1978/79 he recorded his debut album Triumph! With his formation Unity Troup . on which he can also be heard on the alto saxophone and musette . In 1980 Black Saint released another album, No Reservation . After his return to the east coast he works with the Spirit of Life Ensemble as well as with Amina and Amiri Baraka 's Blue Ark . In 1997 he played with Jarman, McIntyre, Favors and Zabar in the formation Bright Moments , with whom he recorded the Delmark album The Return of the Lost Tribe . In 2004 he and his wife, the singer Iqua Colson, created the duo album Hope for Love ; In 2009 he recorded the album The Untarnished Dream , which featured Reggie Workman , Andrew Cyrille and again his wife Iqua. He also appeared on David Murray's octet album New Life (1985), Baikida Carroll's Door of the Cage (1994) and Marionettes on a High Wire (2001) and Andrew Cyrille's Ode to the Living Tree .

As arranger and orchestra leader, he performed the music of Willie The Lion Smith as part of the Lost Jazz Shrines project. He also worked as musical director for various theater projects such as Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God by Djanet Sears and with Amiri Baraka and Max Roach ( The Life and Life of Bumpy Johnson ). Colson taught at the Jazz Artists in the Schools of the National Endowment for the Arts in the early 1980s and is currently (2011) a lecturer at Bloomfield College, New Jersey. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bielefeld catalog 1985
  2. ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 , p. 1396.
personal data
SURNAME Colson, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colson, Adegoke Steve (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey