Steve Tibbetts

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Steve Tibbetts (* 1954 in Minneapolis ) is an American guitarist and composer who mixes elements of ethnic music and rock with world jazz in his studio productions and occasionally plays kendang and kalimba .

Live and act

Tibbetts learned the guitar as an autodidact and initially moved in the folk scene. In 1976 he released his debut album. With his second album YR , created as a thesis at college , on which he overdubbing up to twenty guitars and which was awarded five stars by Down Beat , he reached the general public for the first time; this album, which was initially self-published, was incorporated into the ECM program . In his albums, influences from the music of Indonesia and Nepal , with which Tibbetts has been concerned since his studies, can be seen. He is best known for his studio productions, in which percussionist Marc Anderson was almost always involved, and has rarely been on tour. “Beyond the mainstream of jazz, rock and folk”, says the music journalist Michael Engelbrecht, “the sound brew from Tibbetts enchants with an irritating mixture of clever studio tinkering and free-flowing, improvisational sound ideas.”

Discographic notes

  • YR (Frammis / ECM, 1980, with Bob Hughes, Marc Anderson , Marcus Wise, Steve Cochrane)
  • Northern Song (ECM, 1982 with Marc Anderson)
  • Safe Journey (ECM, 1984, with Bob Hughes, Marc Anderson, Steve Cochrane)
  • Exploded View (ECM, 1986, with Bob Hughes, Marc Anderson, Bruce Henry, Claudia Schmidt, Jan Reimer )
  • Big Map Idea (ECM, 1989 with Michelle Kinney, Marc Anderson, Marcus Wise)
  • The Fall of Us All (ECM, 1994, with Mike Olson, Eric Anderson, Jim Anton, Marc Anderson, Marcus Wise, Claudia Schmidt, Rhea Valentine)
  • Chö with Chöying Drölma (Hannibal, 1997)
  • Knut Hamre & Steve Tibbetts Å (Hannibal, 1999, with Marc Anderson)
  • A Man about a Horse (ECM, 2002, with Jim Anton, Marc Anderson, Marcus Wise)
  • Chöying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts Selwa (Six Degrees 2004, with Marc Anderson, Lodro Sangmo, Sherab Palmo)
  • Natural Causes (ECM, 2010, with Marc Anderson)
  • Life of (ECM, 2018, with Michelle Kinney, Marc Anderson)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Man About A Horse (Review: BBC)
  2. ↑ Meeting (Michael Engelbrecht)
  3. ↑ Meeting (***** Down Beat)
personal data
SURNAME Tibbetts, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis