Steve Lodder

Steve Lodder (born April 10, 1951 in Saint Helier , Jersey ) is an English jazz keyboarder.

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Lodder learned as a child piano and violin and was first in 1969 on the Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University trained as an organist. He started working as a professional musician in the late 1970s. He has performed in London with the group Elephant , in duo with Paul Nieman , with Carol Grimes ' Eyes Wide Open , Jan Ponsford , John Etheridge , Henry Thomas , Harry Beckett and others.

From 1987 to 1989 he toured with George Russell's The International Living Time Orchestra and took part in the recording of his double CD Live in London . He also recorded three albums with Carol Grimes. He toured Germany and Great Britain with Brian Abrahams ' District Six from 1988 to 1990 and recorded the CD Imgoma Yabantwana . He also went on a six-week European tour with Sarah Jane Morris as musical director .

At the same time he began working with Andy Sheppard , in 1991 he became a member of his quintet In Co-Motion (with Claude Deppa , Sylvan Richardson and Dave Adams ). In 1992 he became a member of the trio Inclassificable (with Andy Sheppard and Naná Vasconcelos ). In the same year he composed and played the music for the choreography Modern Living by Jonathan Lunn , which received the 1993 Time Out Dance award .

Also in 1992 Lodder founded the Steve Lodder 4tet with Paul Jayasinha , Dudley Phillips and Mike Bradley . In 1994 he accompanied the American singer Ernestine Anderson , in the following year the project 20th Century saxophones was born , in which he performed classical jazz and contemporary compositions with Andy Sheppard and John Harle .

From 1995 to 1995 Lodder worked with Paul McCartney on his orchestral work Standing Stone , which premiered and recorded in 1997. In 1996 he recorded the album Above the Clouds on the church organ with saxophonist Mark Ramsden . Since 1997 he toured again with George Russell's Living Time Orchestra , with whom he appeared in 1999 at the Washington Library of Congress.

In 1998 he took part in the European tour of Carla Bly's jazz-rock opera Escalator over the Hill . In the same year he produced a CD with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and wrote arrangements of Frank Zappa's jazz compositions with John Etheridge . In collaboration with Sheppard, two more CDs were created. a. John Parricelli , Chris Laurence , Paul Clarvis and Steve Swallow contributed.

In 2000 he recorded a CD with Annie Whitehead , and the following year he released his first own album, bout time 2 . From 2001 to 2002 he worked on McCartney's choral and orchestral work ecce cor meum , the organ version of which he premiered at Magdalen College . He also worked with Mônica Vasconcelos .

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SURNAME	Lodder, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English jazz keyboardist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint Helier , Jersey