Steve Swell

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With Ullmann / Swell's Chicago Plan , 2018

Steve Swell (born December 6, 1954 in Newark / New Jersey ) is an American trombonist of creative jazz .

Live and act

Steve Swell in concert with Peter Brötzmann and Paal Nilssen-Love at Club W71 , 2016.

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 .

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Commons : Steve Swell  - collection of images, videos and audio files
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SURNAME Swell, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey