Steve Swell
Steve Swell (born December 6, 1954 in Newark / New Jersey ) is an American trombonist of creative jazz .
Live and act
Swell played the trombone from the age of ten. He studied at Jersey City State College from 1973 and was a student of Roswell Rudd . In 1975 he came to New York , where he initially worked with musicians such as Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich , Anthony Braxton and Jemeel Moondoc .
He made frequent appearances on Broadway shows in the early 1980s. He played in the bands of Buddy Rich and Lionel Hampton . He became known in 1985 through a concert with Makanda Ken McIntyre at Carnegie Hall . In the early 1990s he toured with Tim Berne's group Caos Totale and worked with Joey Baron's band Barondown and Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble . He was also a member of The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra , Lou Grassis PoBand , Cecil Taylor's Orchestra Humane and Jemeel Moondoc's Jus Grew Orchestra . He also worked with Patrick Brennan , Bill Dixon ( 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur , 2008), Butch Morris , John Zorn , Elliott Sharp , Taylor Ho Bynum ( Enter the Plustet , 2016) and Perry Robinson .
In 1996 his first album - Observations , recorded in a duo with Chris Kelsey - was released as a band leader on the CIMP label, which was followed by numerous others as leaders or co-leaders. He worked with the bands The Implicate Order , The Transcendentalists and Particle Data Group as well as a number of his own trio and quartet formations. Regular musical partners are Ken Filiano , William Parker and Lou Grassi. In 2002 he founded a trio with bassist Tom Abbs and drummer Geoff Mann , which was expanded to a quartet with Ursel Schlicht . With Biggi Vinkeloe and Harris Eisenstadt he formed the trio The Diplomats . With Gebhard Ullmann , Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael Zerang he forms Ullmann / Swell's Chicago Plan .
Discographic notes
- Observations with Chris Kelsey , 1996
- Out and About with Ken Filiano, Lou Grassi, Roswell Rudd , 1996
- Moons of Jupiter with Dominic Duval , Jay Rosen , Mark Whitecage , 1997
- Atmospheels with Will Connell junior , Lou Grassi, 1998
- Presents Particle Data Group with Bruce Eisenbeil , Gregg Bendian , 2000
- This Now! with Matt Lavelle , Jemeel Moondoc, Cooper-Moore , Wilber Morris , Kevin Norton , 2001
- Invisible Cities with Perry Robinson , 2002
- Steve Swell's Suite for Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers with Charles Burnham , Roy Campbell , Will Connell , Kevin Norton , 2003
- Still in Movement with Tom Abbs , Geoff Mann , 2003
- Slammin 'the Infinite with Matthew Heyner , Klaus Kugel , Sabir Mateen , 2003
- Live at the Bowery Poetry Club , 2006
- Steve Swell's Slammin 'the Infinite: 5000 Poems (Not Two, 2011)
- Hommage à Bartók (Silkheart, 2016)
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Improviser (Swell Records, 2016)
- Music for Six Musicians: Hommage à Olivier Messiaen ( Silkheart Records , 2018), with Rob Brown , Jason Kao Hwang , Tomas Ulrich , Jim Pugliese , Robert Boston
- The Center Will Hold featuring Andrew Cyrille (Not Two Records, 2020)
Web links
- Works by Steve Swell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Steve Swell's website
- Biography on jazz.com (English)
- Steve Swell at Allmusic (English)
- Steve Swell at Discogs (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Swell, Steve |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trombonist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Newark , New Jersey |