Trevor Dunn

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Trevor Dunn, Moers Festival 2012

Trevor Roy Dunn (born January 30, 1968 in Eureka ) is an American composer and bassist . As one of the “most versatile innovators of the Bay Area scene” in California, it is “no contradiction” to “ enjoy heavy metal and free jazz at the same time .” Dunn became known in the 1990s with the experimental jazz core group Mr. Bungle . Since then he has been working on various projects with different musical characteristics.

Live and act

Dunn began playing bass at the age of 13. His first influences were the Beach Boys , Blondie , Cheap Trick , and Kiss , but also Venom , The Swans and Slayer . In 1986 at the age of 18 he founded the music project Mr. Bungle with Mike Patton and Trey Spruance, which in its early days produced a mixture of thrash metal , hard rock and funk . Meanwhile, Dunn studied bass, double bass and music . He successfully completed his studies in 1990 at the age of 22. A year later, the self-titled major debut of the band Mr. Bungle was the first national and international release on Warner Bros. Records . Since then Dunn has been working for and with various musicians, composers and artists. His collaborations with the singer and label founder Mike Patton , the composer John Zorn , Curtis Hasselbring and the group Secret Chiefs 3 are particularly emphasized . Bob Ostertag brought him in for his production Pantychrist .

Trevor Dunn live at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2009

In the chamber jazz bands of Ben Goldberg and John Schott he was noticed as "a sensitive improviser". Dunn also worked with and for a variety of different musicians such as Sean Lennon , The Melvins , Brian Welch and David Krakauer . In particular, his repeated engagements with John Zorn and Mike Patton contributed to his popularity as a studio and live musician. For Zorn he participates in the projects Electric Masada and The Moonchild Trio .

He also wrote the score for various independent films .

Band projects

The Mr. Bungle , founded in 1986, disbanded in 2000. In the meantime they recorded four demo tapes and three albums. The band's style varied with each release, but elements of jazz and metal as well as vulgar and obscene behavior and black humor always played a major role in the band's music, text and stage presence. In addition to this project, which was largely borrowed from punk and metal, Dunn played both classic jazz sets and commercial lounge appearances in and around San Francisco .

In the mid-90s, Dunn founded the Secret Chiefs 3 with Mr. Bungle members Danny Heifetz and Trey Spruance under the creative direction of the latter . Like Mr. Bungle, this band doesn't play a clearly identifiable style either and mixes surf rock with oriental music , death metal and other influences.

In 1998 Dunn founded his own independent band project with changing musicians under the title Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant . The band, which included guitarist Adam Levy and drummer Kenny Wollesen , plays a jazz variation with influences from doom metal and rock .

A year later, Mike Patton initiated the supergroup Fantômas and invited Dunn to participate. The band with Buzz Osborne from The Melvins and Dave Lombardo from Slayer have since released four albums that can be largely assigned to the style of jazz metal , but also use elements from industrial and ambient .

In 2008 Dunn formed another band with MadLove . In contrast to his previous work, MadLove play neither complex jazz nor metal, but a catchy mixture of blues , rock and pop music .

Discographic notes

  • Trevor Dunn, John Schott, Ben Goldberg , Kenny Wollesen Junk Genius (1995, Knitting Factory Works)
  • Secret Chiefs 3 First Grand Constitution and Bylaws (1996, Amarillo Records)
  • Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant Debutantes & Centipedes (1998, Buzz-Records)
  • Secret Chiefs 3 Book of M (2001, Web of Mimicry)
  • The Fantômas Melvins Big Band Millennium Monsterwork 2000 (2002, Ipecac Recordings)
  • Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant Sister Phantom Owl Fish (2004, Ipecac Recordings)
  • Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness (2005, Tzadik )
  • Shelley Burgon / Trevor Dunn Baltimore (2007, Skirl Records)
  • Four Films (2008, Tzadik)
  • Tomas Fujiwara : The Air Is Different (2012, RogueArt )
  • Roswell Rudd , Jamie Saft , Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi Strength & Power (2016, RareNoise Records)
  • Nocturnes (Tzadik, 2019)

equipment

bass

  • 1975 Fender P-Bass
  • 1950s Czech double bass
  • 1991 5-sided alembic bass
  • 5-sided fretless Ken Lawrence bass
  • Guild Ashbory Bass
  • 1966 Guild Guitar Company

Effects

  • Line6 Delay Modeler
  • Line 6 Distortion Modeler
  • BOSS RV-3 Reverb / Delay
  • BOSS FV-50 volume
  • Mid-Fi Glitch Computer
  • Digitech Echo Plus 8 sec. Delay

Amplifier

  • Gallien-Krueger 800RB
  • Acoustic Image Focus 1

Lexigraphic entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Kampmann Reclams Jazzlexikon , p. 154
  2. ↑ a b c Ipecac
  3. ↑ a b c d Dunn biography
  4. ↑ Wolf Kampmann (ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost: Reclams Jazzlexikon. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-010731-7 , p. 155.
  5. ↑ discography
  6. ↑ bunglefever.com
  7. ↑ secret chief ( Memento of September 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Trevor Dunn discography
  9. ↑ Fantômas on Ipecac
  10. ↑ MadLove on Ipecac
  11. ↑ trevordunn.net
personal data
SURNAME Dunn, Trevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunn, Trevor Roy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and bassist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Eureka