Roswell Rudd
Encyclopedia
Roswell Rudd is a Grammy Award
-nominated American
jazz trombonist
and composer.
Although skilled in a variety of genres of jazz (including dixieland
, which he performed while in college) and other genre
s of music, he is known primarily for his work in free
and avant-garde jazz
. Since 1962 Rudd has worked extensively with saxophonist Archie Shepp
.
where he had played with Eli's Chosen Six
, a dixieland band of Yale students that Rudd joined in the mid-'50s. The sextet
played the boisterous trad-jazz style of the day and recorded two albums, including one for Columbia
. His landmark collaborations with Cecil Taylor
, Archie Shepp
, John Tchicai
and Steve Lacy
grew out of the lessons learned while playing rags and stomps for drunken college kids in Connecticut.
Rudd later taught ethnomusicology
at Bard College
and the University of Maine
. On and off for a period of three decades, Roswell Rudd assisted Alan Lomax
with his world music
song style (Cantometrics
) and Global Jukebox projects, and the wealth of information on the music of this planet that he absorbed inspired him to collaborate beyond the periphery of jazz or even of western music.
In the 1960s, Rudd participated in key free jazz recordings. Highlights include work with the New York Art Quartet
; on the soundtrack recording for Michael Snow
's 1964 film New York Eye and Ear Control
; Michael Mantler
& Carla Bley
's 1968 Jazz Composer's Orchestra
- Communications
featuring Cecil Taylor
; and collaborations with Don Cherry
, Pharoah Sanders
, Larry Coryell
and Gato Barbieri
. A major factor in Rudd's career has been his lifelong friendships with saxophonists Archie Shepp
and Steve Lacy
-- and his numerous recordings and performances of the music of Thelonious Monk
with Lacy.
Rudd has been a frequent visitor to the African nation of Mali
, performing and recording with Mali
an musicians. His 2001 CD MALIcool, a cross-cultural collaboration with kora
player Toumani Diabaté
and other Malian musicians, represented the first time the trombone had been featured in a recording of Malian traditional music.
In 2004 he brought his Trombone Shout Band to perform at the 4th Festival au Désert
in Essakane
, Tombouctou Region, Mali.
In 2005 he extended his reach even further, recording a CD with the Mongolian Buryat Band, a traditional music group of musicians from Mongolia
and Buryatia, entitled Blue Mongol.
More recently he has recorded with Hispanic musicians from New York City.
Rudd conducts master classes and workshops both in the United States and around the world.
He co-leads an ensemble with Archie Shepp, as well as touring with MALIcool, the Mongolian Buryat Band, as well as being a featured guest with a myriad of musicians, not always "jazz" musicians.
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-nominated American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazz trombonist
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
and composer.
Although skilled in a variety of genres of jazz (including dixieland
Dixieland
Dixieland music, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz, Early Jazz or New Orleans jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s.Well-known jazz standard songs from the...
, which he performed while in college) and other genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
s of music, he is known primarily for his work in free
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
and avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which ...
. Since 1962 Rudd has worked extensively with saxophonist Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...
.
Biography
Rudd graduated from Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
where he had played with Eli's Chosen Six
Eli's Chosen Six
Eli's Chosen Six was the ensemble that appeared in the influential 1959 concert film Jazz On A Summer's Day playing Dixieland as they drove around Newport in a convertible jalopy. It was a famous Yale College Dixieland band of the 1950s that played the boisterous trad-jazz style of the day...
, a dixieland band of Yale students that Rudd joined in the mid-'50s. The sextet
Sextet
A sextet is a formation containing exactly six members. It is commonly associated with vocal or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six similar or related objects are considered a single unit....
played the boisterous trad-jazz style of the day and recorded two albums, including one for Columbia
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
. His landmark collaborations with Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...
, Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...
, John Tchicai
John Tchicai
John Martin Tchicai is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent....
and Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....
grew out of the lessons learned while playing rags and stomps for drunken college kids in Connecticut.
Rudd later taught ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is defined as "the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts."Coined by the musician Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ethnos and μουσική mousike , it is often considered the anthropology or ethnography of music...
at Bard College
Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...
and the University of Maine
University of Maine
The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...
. On and off for a period of three decades, Roswell Rudd assisted Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
with his world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
song style (Cantometrics
Cantometrics
Cantometrics is a method for relating the statistical analysis of sonic elements of traditional vocal music to the statistical analysis of sociological traits, largely as those traits are defined and organized via the Human Relations Area Files...
) and Global Jukebox projects, and the wealth of information on the music of this planet that he absorbed inspired him to collaborate beyond the periphery of jazz or even of western music.
In the 1960s, Rudd participated in key free jazz recordings. Highlights include work with the New York Art Quartet
New York Art Quartet
The New York Art Quartet was a free jazz ensemble made up of saxophonist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, drummer Milford Graves and bassists Lewis Worrell, Reggie Workman and Finn Von Eyben...
; on the soundtrack recording for Michael Snow
Michael Snow
Michael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...
's 1964 film New York Eye and Ear Control
New York Eye and Ear Control
New York Eye and Ear Control is an album of group improvisations recorded by an augmented version of Albert Ayler's group to provide the soundtrack for Michael Snow's film of the same name....
; Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler is a composer and trumpeter in new jazz and contemporary music.-Career: United States:Mantler was born in Vienna, Austria...
& Carla Bley
Carla Bley
Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...
's 1968 Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Jazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group founded in 1965, to further avant-garde jazz in New York. Carla Bley and Michael Mantler were important in its organization and style....
- Communications
Communications (jazz album)
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra is a double album from the Jazz Composer's Orchestra recorded over a period of six months with the Austrian trumpeter Michael Mantler as a leader and producer...
featuring Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...
; and collaborations with Don Cherry
Don Cherry (jazz)
Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...
, Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders is a Grammy Award–winning American jazz saxophonist.Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on...
, Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands The Jailers, The Rumblers, The Royals, and The Flames. He also played with The Checkers from nearby...
and Gato Barbieri
Gato Barbieri
Leandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...
. A major factor in Rudd's career has been his lifelong friendships with saxophonists Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...
and Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....
-- and his numerous recordings and performances of the music of Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...
with Lacy.
Rudd has been a frequent visitor to the African nation of Mali
Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...
, performing and recording with Mali
Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...
an musicians. His 2001 CD MALIcool, a cross-cultural collaboration with kora
Kora (instrument)
The kora is a 21-string bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.-Description:A kora is built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator, and has a notched bridge. It does not fit well into any one category of western instruments and would have to be...
player Toumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté is a Malian kora player. In addition to performing the traditional music of Mali, he has also been involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles.-Biography:...
and other Malian musicians, represented the first time the trombone had been featured in a recording of Malian traditional music.
In 2004 he brought his Trombone Shout Band to perform at the 4th Festival au Désert
Desert Music Festival
The Festival au Désert is an annual concert in Essakane, Mali, showcasing traditional Tuareg music as well as music from around the world. The Tuareg band Tinariwen first garnered international attention with their performance at the 2001 Festival.A French language documentary entitled Le...
in Essakane
Essakane
Essakane is a rural commune and village of the Cercle of Goundam in the Tombouctou Region of Mali. The commune includes around 16 small settlements. The small village of Essakane is around 70 kilometers west of the town of Timbuktu...
, Tombouctou Region, Mali.
In 2005 he extended his reach even further, recording a CD with the Mongolian Buryat Band, a traditional music group of musicians from Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...
and Buryatia, entitled Blue Mongol.
More recently he has recorded with Hispanic musicians from New York City.
Rudd conducts master classes and workshops both in the United States and around the world.
He co-leads an ensemble with Archie Shepp, as well as touring with MALIcool, the Mongolian Buryat Band, as well as being a featured guest with a myriad of musicians, not always "jazz" musicians.
Awards and honors
- In 2000 Rudd was awarded a Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
in composition. - In 2003, 2004, and 2005 he was voted Trombonist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists AssociationJazz Journalists AssociationThe Jazz Journalists Association is an international organization of all types of media professionals who document, promulgate, or appreciate jazz. As of 2011, it has approximately 500 members, primarily in North America but also on other continents...
. - His 1999 album Monk's Dream was nominated for a Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Best Vocal Performance Male, as well as a Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. - 52nd Annual Down BeatDown BeatDown Beat is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois...
magazine Critic's Poll – one of the best of 2003 - One of the 10 best of 2003 – Chris Porter, Washington City PaperWashington City PaperThe Washington City Paper is a U.S. alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Founded in 1981, and published for its first year under the masthead 1981, taking the City Paper name in volume 2, by Russ Smith, it shared ownership with the Chicago Reader from 1982...
- THE CODA TOP TEN OF 2002 - Selected by Duck BakerDuck BakerDuck Baker is an accomplished and influential American fingerstyle guitarist, who in his playing combines genres as varied as rags, blues, country, gospel, cajun, bluegrass, Celtic music, ballads and jazz, swing, New Orleans jazz and free jazz.-Biography and career:Baker grew up in Richmond,...
As leader
- 2008 - Roswell Rudd & David Oquendo El Encuentro (Mojito Records)
- 2007 - Roswell Rudd Quartet Keep Your Heart Right (Sunnyside RecordsSunnyside RecordsSunnyside Records is an American jazz record label.Sunnyside was founded in 1982 by Francois Zalacain and Christine Berthet. Its early releases consisted primarily of piano solo material and ensembles without drums, but in later years has broadened its selection of material.-Artists who have...
) - 2006 - Roswell Rudd & Yomo Toro El Espiritu Jibaro (Sunnyside Records)
- 2005 - Roswell Rudd and the Mongolian Buryat Band Blue Mongol (SunnysideSunnyside RecordsSunnyside Records is an American jazz record label.Sunnyside was founded in 1982 by Francois Zalacain and Christine Berthet. Its early releases consisted primarily of piano solo material and ensembles without drums, but in later years has broadened its selection of material.-Artists who have...
) - 2002 - Roswell Rudd's MALIcool (UNIVERSAL/Sunnyside)
- 2001 - The Charlie Kohlhase Quintet plays the Music of Roswell Rudd - Eventuality (NADA)
- 2001 - Roswell Rudd and Archie Shepp Live in New York (Universal)
- 2000 - B r o a d S t r o k e s (Knitting Media)
- 1999 - New York Art Quartet - 35 Reunion (DIWDIW RecordsDIW Records is a Japanese record label. It is a subsidiary label of Disc Union and specializes in jazz and avant garde music. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn.-Discography:...
) - 1999 - Monk's Dream Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd (Universal/Verve RecordsVerve RecordsVerve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...
) - 1996 - The Unheard Herbie Nichols-VOL 1 & 2 with John Bacon, Jr and Greg Miller (CIMP)
- 1982 - Regeneration with Steve LacySteve LacySteve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....
, Misha MengelbergMisha MengelbergMisha Mengelberg is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.-Biography:...
, Kent Carter, Han BenninkHan BenninkHan Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....
(Soul Note) - 1978 - The Definitive Roswell Rudd (Horo RecordsHoro Records-HDP series:*HDP 1-2 Irio De Paula orchestra Casinha Branca*HDP 3-4 Sam Rivers trio Black Africa 1*HDP 5-6 Sam Rivers trio Black Africa 2*HDP 7-8 Ran Blake solo piano Open City*HDP 9-10 Max Roach quartet The Loadstar*HDP 11-12 Michael Smith duo Elvira Madigan...
) - 1976 - Blown Bone (Emanem RecordsEmanem RecordsEmanem Records is an independent record label based in London specialising in free improvised music. The label was founded in 1974 by Martin Davidson assisted by Madelaine Davidson. The main purpose of the label was to document the London free improvisation scene...
) - 1976 - Inside Job with Enrico RavaEnrico RavaEnrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s...
, Dave BurrellDave BurrellDavis Burrell is an American jazz instrumentalist, most notably on the piano. He has worked for many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray.- Biography :...
, Stafford JamesStafford James-Biography:As a young man, Stafford James enlisted in the Air Force; after his discharge he studied at the University of Chicago with Rudolf Fahsbender. In 1969 he moved to New York City and studied under Julius Levine at the Mannes College for Music. Here he met Pharaoh Sanders, with whom he...
, Harold White (Arista/ FreedomFreedom RecordsFreedom Records was a jazz record label linked with the producer Alan Bates, as with his Black Lion Records.Individual recordings were distributed via Polydor Records and Transatlantic Records during the early 1970s before the company was bought by Arista Records.-Discography:*1000 Albert Ayler &...
) - 1974 - Flexible Flyer, Sheila JordanSheila JordanSheila Jordan is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Jordan has recorded as a session musician with an array of critically acclaimed artists in addition to a notable solo career....
, Hod O'Brien, Barry AltschulBarry AltschulBarry Altschul is a free jazz drummer who gained fame in the late 1960s with the pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea.-Biography:...
, Arild AndersenArild AndersenArild Andersen is a Norwegian bass player.Born in Lillestrøm, Norway, he started out as a member of the Jan Garbarek Quartet , with Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen...
(Black Lion) - 1973 - Numatik Swing BandNumatik Swing Band-Track listing:# "Vent" - 4:50# "Breathahoward" - 2:52# "Circulation" - 10:15# "Lullaby For Greg" - 11:10# "Aerosphere" - 14:15-Personnel:*Roswell Rudd - trombone, french horn, producer...
(JCOA) - with the Jazz Composer's OrchestraJazz Composer's OrchestraJazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group founded in 1965, to further avant-garde jazz in New York. Carla Bley and Michael Mantler were important in its organization and style.... - 1966 - EverywhereEverywhere (Roswell Rudd album)Everywhere is an album by American jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label. The tracks were rereleased on a compilation Mixed in 1998 with performances by the Cecil Taylor Unit originally released as part of Gil Evans' Into the Hot .-Reception:The...
Robin KenyattaRobin KenyattaRobin Kenyatta was an American jazz alto saxophonist.-Career:Born Robert Prince Haynes in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, United States, Kenyatta grew up in New York. He played with Bill Dixon there in the 1960s, playing with his project "The October Revolution in Jazz"...
, G. Logan, Charlie HadenCharlie HadenCharles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman...
, L. Worrell (Impulse!) also released as MixedMixed (album)Mixed is a compilation album of two avant-garde jazz sessions featuring performances by the Cecil Taylor Unit and the Roswell Rudd Sextet... - 1965 - Roswell Rudd (America)
As sideman
- 2008 - Concertos – Michael MantlerMichael MantlerMichael Mantler is a composer and trumpeter in new jazz and contemporary music.-Career: United States:Mantler was born in Vienna, Austria...
(ECM Records) - 2006 - "Dry Bones" - with Sonic Youth, The Harry Smith Project CD 1 (Shout! FactoryShout! FactoryShout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2003 that was started by Richard Foos , Bob Emmer and Garson Foos initially as a specialty music label...
) - 2003 - Sex Mob - Dime Grind Palace (Ropeadope RecordsRopeadope RecordsRopeadope Records is an American record label specializing in jazz, hip hop, electronic and downtempo music. The label was founded by Andy Hurwitz in New York City and later moved to Philadelphia, where it is now located....
) - 2002 - Seize the Time – Nexus Orchestra (Splasch Records)
- 1997 - Newsense with Elton DeanElton DeanElton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....
(Slam Records) - 1996 - Bladik Keith TippettKeith TippettKeith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett, the son of a local police officer, went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance...
et al. (Cuneiform) - 1996 - Terrible NRBQ & Terry Adams (New World)
- 1996 - Rumors of an Incident with Elton Dean (Slam Records)
- 1995 - Wozzek's Death with Allen Lowe (EnjaEnja RecordsEnja Records is a German jazz record label based in Munich, Germany. It was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971....
) - 1995 - Wild Weekend NRBQ & Terry Adams Virgin
- 1994 - Dark Was the Night with Allen Lowe
- 1992 - Darn it with Paul Haines AMERICAN CLAVE
- 1984 - That's the Way I Feel Now Produced by Hal Wilner - Monk Compositions
- 1982 - Regeneration with Steve Lacy, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg & Kent Carter Soul Note
- 1981 - Interpretations of Monk Barry Harris, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Charlie Rouse, Mal Waldron, Muhal Richard Abrams, Ed Blackwell, Ben Riley, Richard Davis, Anthony Davis DIW / KOCH INT'L
- 1979 - Divine Song - with Sangeeta Michael Berardi, Rashied Ali, Eddie Gomez, Archie Shepp New Pulse Artists
- 1979 - Sharing - Giorgio Gaslini Discgidella Quercia
- 1979 - Musique MecaniqueMusique MecaniqueMusique Mecanique is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 1978 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1979.-Reception:...
with Carla Bley Watt - 1978 - Enrico Rava QuartetEnrico Rava QuartetEnrico Rava Quartet is an album by Italian jazz trumpeter and composer Enrico Rava recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
Enrico RavaEnrico RavaEnrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s...
, J.F. Jenny-Clarke & Aldo RomanoAldo RomanoAldo Romano is a jazz drummer. He also started a rock group in 1971.-Biography:He moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in Paris, but his career gained notice when he started working with Don Cherry in 1963. He recorded with Steve Lacy and...
ECM - 1977 - European Tour 1977European Tour 1977European Tour 1977 is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 1977 in Munich, Germany and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1978.-Reception:...
with Carla Bley Watt - 1976 - Dinner MusicDinner MusicDinner Music is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 1976 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1977.-Reception:...
with Carla Bley Watt - 1976 - Maine BVHAAST
- 1975 - TricklesTricklesTrickles is the first album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Italian Black Saint label. It features performances of five of Lacy's compositions by Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Kent Carter and Beaver Harris.-Reception:...
Steve Lacy, Beaver Harris, Kent Carter Soul Note - 1974 - Village on the Left Marcello Melis & Don Moye Soul Note
- 1972 - The Third World with Gato Barbieri IMPULSE
- 1972 - Roswell Rudd ( New York Art Quartet) AMERICA
- 1971 - Escalator over the HillEscalator over the HillEscalator over the Hill is mostly referred to as a jazz opera, but it was released as a "chronotransduction" with "words by Paul Haines, adaptation and music by Carla Bley, production and coordination by Michael Mantler", performed by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra.-History:Escalator over the Hill...
by Carla Bley JCOA - 1971 - Liberation Music Orchestra Charlie Haden Impulse
- 1968 - Communications with Michael Mantler and JCOA WATT
- 1967 - Live At DonaueschingenDonaueschingenDonaueschingen is a German town in the Black Forest in the southwest of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar Kreis. It stands near the confluence of the two sources of the river Danube ....
SABA - 1966 - Mama Too TightMama Too TightMama Too Tight is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1966. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, Tommy Turrentine, Grachan Moncur III, Roswell Rudd, Howard Johnson, Perry Robinson, Charlie Haden and Beaver Harris in August 1966. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states...
with Archie Shepp Impulse - 1966 - Until with Robin Kenyatta (Atlantic)
- 1966 - New York Eye and Ear ControlNew York Eye and Ear ControlNew York Eye and Ear Control is an album of group improvisations recorded by an augmented version of Albert Ayler's group to provide the soundtrack for Michael Snow's film of the same name....
Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, John Tchicai and Gary Peacock (ESP) - 1966 - Archie Shepp Live in San FranciscoArchie Shepp Live in San FranciscoArchie Shepp Live in San Francisco is a live album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1966. The album contains a performance recorded by Shepp, Roswell Rudd, Donald Garrett, Lewis Worrell and Beaver Harris at the Both/And Club in San Francisco, CA, on February 19, 1966...
with Archie Shepp (Impulse) - 1964 - New York Art QuartetNew York Art QuartetThe New York Art Quartet was a free jazz ensemble made up of saxophonist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, drummer Milford Graves and bassists Lewis Worrell, Reggie Workman and Finn Von Eyben...
John Tchicai, Milford Graves (ESP) - 1964 - Four for TraneFour for TraneFour for Trane is a studio album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1964. Three of the five tracks are reworkings of pieces originally recorded on co-producer John Coltrane's 1960 Giant Steps, rearranged by Shepp and Roswell Rudd....
with Archie Shepp (Impulse) - 1963 - School Days Steve Lacy, Dennis Charles, Henry Grimes (HAT HUT)
- 1962 - Into the Hot Gil Evans / Cecil Taylor (Impulse)
- 1961 - New York City R&BNew York City R&BNew York City R&B is a 1961 free jazz album originally recorded at a session by bassist Buell Neidlinger but subsequently reissued under joint names with the pianist Cecil Taylor. It was produced by Nat Hentoff...
Buell Neidlinger, Cecil Taylor (Mosaic) - 1957 - Eli's Chosen 6 Yale University Dixieland Band (Columbia)
External links
- Interview with Roswell Rudd, 2002
- Discography
- "In Conversation with Roswell Rudd" by Tomas Peña (Jazz.com)