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  The History of Jazz Music. Roswell Rudd: biography, discography, review, links
White trombonist Roswell Rudd (1935) was the musician who rediscovred the trombone in the free-jazz era.
Rudd's own five-movement composition for the (24-piece) Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Numatik Swing Band (july 1973), was highlighted by Circulation, a multi-stylistic workout mainly for the trombone, Lullaby For Greg with Sheila Jordan on vocals, and the dissonant and exotic last movement, Aerosphere.
Rudd the trombonist was transposing the New Orleans' trombone to the "creative" era while absorbing also elements of folk music.
www.scaruffi.com /jazz/rudd.html   (420 words)

  
  Roswell Rudd - Music Downloads - Online
Rudd didn't try to mimic a language, bebop, that was spoken most naturally by players of keyed instruments.
Rudd's first instrument was the French horn, which he studied from the age of 11.
Rudd's compositions for the Jazz Composer's Orchestra were recorded in 1973 on the album Numatik Swing Band (JCOA).
musicstore.connect.com /artist/480/Roswell-Rudd/1033359.html   (665 words)

  
 Music | A gig to remember   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
They’d heard that Rudd was ambivalent about playing, and Kohlhase told his mentor not to sweat it — the quintet would go on, Rudd could get back to his family in New York if that’s what he wanted to do.
Kohlhase and Rudd, both of whom have an inclination to humor in their work, had agreed to cut some of the more comic elements from the set list.
Rudd’s music demands participation: it’s fierce, blues-drenched, full of New Orleans-style cross-talk among the horns, driven by an earth-bound songfulness and his own broad, clamorous trombone playing.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/giantsteps/documents/02421813.htm   (773 words)

  
 Blue Mongol - Roswell Rudd - Song Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Master trombonist Roswell Rudd teams with a Mongolian ensemble that renamed itself for this outing, and over two recording sessions has come up with 13 completely unique and utterly original tunes that come from either traditional sources...
Master trombonist Roswell Rudd teams with a Mongolian ensemble that renamed itself for this outing, and over two recording sessions has come up with 13 completely unique and utterly original tunes that come from either traditional sources or were written by Rudd.
But the most astonishing elements are Rudd's own compositions for this group, perhaps the most moving of which is "Gathering Light," where his trombone is a background tonal drone and Badma Khanda sings wordlessly as the flute and the dulcimer float around her elegantly.
www.mp3.com /albums/20070510/summary.html   (699 words)

  
 Roswell Rudd at All About Jazz
Rudd graduated from Yale University, and later taught music-ethnology 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 song style project and the wealth of information on the music of this planet inspired him to collaborate beyond the periphery of western music.
Rudd has been a frequent visitor to the African nation of Mali, performing and recording with Malian musicians.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/musician.php?id=3958   (331 words)

  
 www.jazzweekly.com | Interviews
ROSWELL RUDD: My father was an amateur drummer, who played just about every day in the living room from the time I was born.
ROSWELL RUDD: Well, the earliest one and the one who really clinched it for me as far as what I was going to do for the rest of my life was when I heard Louis Armstrong play.
ROSWELL RUDD: Well, the music I grew up with was one that depended on, leaned very heavily on collective improvisation.
www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/rudd.htm   (2129 words)

  
 Roswell Rudd & Badma Khanda's
Mongolian Buryat Band
The musicians visited Roswell several times at his home, where they were able to mix their sounds, and from this experience Roswell began to compose songs that were like pentatonic jazz, or rather, in the pentatonic flavor with a jazz feel.
Rudd is known for his work with such groundbreaking groups and musicians as Herbie Nichols, the New York Art Quartet, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Carla Bley, and Steve Lacy.
Rudd has received international recognition as a performer and for his compositions and arrangements ranging from large-scale music dramas to instrumental jazz suites.
www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_8087_pf.html   (1440 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Roswell Rudd tickets, concerts and tour dates
Rudd's first instrument was the French horn, which he studied from the age of 11.
Rudd's compositions for the Jazz Composer's Orchestra were recorded in 1973 on the album Numatik Swing Band (JCOA).
In 2000, Rudd and Lacy reunited to record (with Lacy's regular rhythm section, bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel and drummer John Betsch, and vocalist Irene Aebi) Monk's Dream for the Verve label; the band also toured in support of the album.
www.ticketmaster.com.au /artist/737757?brand=none   (936 words)

  
 Jazz News: Roswell Rudd & Trombone Shout Band at 4th Festival in the Desert
Roswell Rudd and his Trombone Shout Band will be participating in the 4th Festival in the Desert, in Essakane, Timbuctou, on the Sahara Desert from January 9 - 11th, 2004.
Rudd's band consists of trombonists Steve Swell and Deborah Weizs, with Barry Altschul on drums, and Henry Schroy on bass.
Roswell Rudd will also be performing with The Gangbe Brass Band of Benin with whom he performed at Joe's Pub in their NYC debut in Sept. 2002.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=3011   (294 words)

  
 Roswell Rudd MP3 Downloads - Roswell Rudd Music Downloads - Roswell Rudd Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Master trombonist Roswell Rudd teams with a Mongolian ensemble that renamed itself for this outing, and over two recording sessions has come...
At first blush, adding Roswell Rudd to a group of native West African musicians might seem, well, stretched.
For those of us who recall fondly Roswell Rudd's outstanding work in the '60s and '70s, this latest effort may come as a bit of a disappointment.
www.mp3.com /roswell-rudd/artists/6327/discography.html   (1059 words)

  
 Roswell Rudd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A major factor in Rudd's career has been his lifelong friendship with Steve Lacy and their numerous recordings and performances of the music of Thelonious Monk.
Rudd graduated from Yale University, and later taught music-ethnology 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 song style project and the wealth of information on the music of this planet inspired him to collaborate beyond the periphery of western music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roswell_Rudd   (880 words)

  
 Monk's Music Trio plus Roswell Rudd and Max Perkoff - Jazz at Pearls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the early 1960s Roswell Rudd and Steve Lacy created the first jazz group (other than Monk's bands) to concentrate on Thelonious Monk compositions.
Rudd has become one of the world's leading modern and world music pioneers, performing at jazz festivals worldwide and at leading venues in New York City.
About the CD Roswell says: 'Thelonious Monk was quite simply one of the greatest visionaries to ever pass through the planet Earth.
www.jazzatpearls.com /talent/talent_page.php?id=212   (453 words)

  
 School Days - Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet
One of this album’s many virtues is its pianolessness; in addition to Lacy, it features trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Dennis Charles.
The relationship between Lacy and Rudd is long-standing—the pair play together, off and on, to this day—but even in these early recordings, their roles are already defined.
Rudd, by contrast, cuts loose repeatedly, whooping and slurring his notes in a style that verges on the cartoonish on more than one occasion.
www.culturevulture.net /books/LacyRudd.htm   (612 words)

  
 Roswell Rudd : Features : One Final Note
Rudd is relegated to more sideman status on the next Lowe-led session he appeared on.
Rudd returned to the North Country compound that houses CIMP and its affiliate Rusch enterprises in November 1996 to record the first session under his own name since the 1982 session on Soul Note that he co-led with Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg, Kent Carter and Han Bennink (Regeneration).
Rudd moves front and center on the delicious "Ruddfish Dish", which is credited to Dean yet it so captures the essential lyricism of the trombonist that unwary listeners may think it's the trombonist's composition.
www.onefinalnote.com /features/2004/rudd-pt01   (3090 words)

  
 TrombonesOnline.com - Blown Bone - Roswell Rudd - Trombone Products - Trombone Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Probably most noteworthy is the reunion of Rudd with Steve Lacy for the first time since their classic 1963 recording School Days.
Rudd’s writing strikes a fine balance between tight ensemble playing and looser space for soloing, so that this does not sound like a band just assembled for one session, more like a working group.
The driving, rhythmic "Blown Bone" is followed by "Cement Blues," then the restrained and atmospheric "Street Walking," before the climax of the suite and the album, "Bethesda Fountain." The closer is driven by a compulsive Latin rhythm that serves as a springboard for a procession of taut, pithy solos.
www.trombonesonline.com /newsitem-id/94.htm   (473 words)

  
 Roswell Rudd information - Search.com
Rudd participated in key free jazz recordings, notably with the New York Art Quartet and on the soundtrack recording for Michael Snow's 1964 film New York Eye and Ear Control.
Rudd graduated from Yale University, and later taught at Bard College and the University of Maine.
A major factor in Rudd's career has been his lifelong friendship with Steve Lacy and their numerous recordings and performance giving the music of Thelonious Monk to us.
www.search.com /reference/Roswell_Rudd   (245 words)

  
 Roswell Rudd (Monksieland Band) - The Jazz Photography of Mark Ladenson @ jazzreview.com
Established in late 2003 by trombonist, Roswell Rudd, and soprano saxophonist, Steve Lacy, the group's name is a play on the earliest musical roots of these two giants of the music.
With his place taken by clarinetist, Don Byron, every performance of the Monksieland Band is now, as Rudd put it, a dedication to Steve Lacy.
I've decided to limit this gallery to shots, from this set, of Rudd, "in three attitudes", to cop the title of a Jimmy Raney LP of almost 50 years ago.
www.jazzreview.com /photosdetails.cfm?ID=1069   (214 words)

  
 Cecil Taylor Unit / Roswell Rudd Sextet Mixed CD
Roswell Rudd Sextet: Roswell Rudd (trombone); Robin Kenyatta (alto saxophone); Giuseppi Logan (flute, bass clarinet); Charlie Haden, Lewis Worrell (bass); Beaver Harris (drums).
The last four cuts are by the Roswell Rudd Sextet and were recorded in 1966 (originally issued as ROSWELL RUDD'S EVERYWHERE).
Roswell Rudd's Sextet is more about group interaction.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1143052/a/Mixed.htm   (574 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Mixed-Remastered: Music: Cecil/Rudd Roswel Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Roswell Rudd is brilliant and it's great to be able to kill two birds with one stone and listen to both Beaver Harris and Sunny Murray on one CD.
Ted Curson and Roswell Rudd join in for a avant-super group on the track "Mixed", trumpet and trombone respectively.
As for Rudd's Everywhere session, you have Roswell Rudd on trombone, Giuseppe Logan on flute and bass clarinet, Lewis Worrell and Charlie Haden on upright, Beaver Harris on drums, and both altoists John Tchicai and Robin Kenyetta.
www.amazon.ca /Mixed-Remastered-Cecil-Rudd-Roswel-Taylor/dp/B00000DD24   (637 words)

  
 EMANEM 4131: ROSWELL RUDD
Roswell Rudd and Steve Lacy were reunited in 1976 following the original issue of the 1963 SCHOOL DAYS on Emanem (now on Hatology).
"Rudd's imaginative writing leads the musicians through repeated highlights, in which swinging frameworks and lyrical suggestions mesh in no-nonsense scoots through a multitude of genres and influences, one of the very few times in which one can't go wrong using the term 'fusion'.
Rudd's sapient melodic sense brings his trombone to the fore in the most intense and enjoyable moments.
www.emanemdisc.com /E4131.html   (1439 words)

  
 village voice > music > Larry Blumenfeld on Roswell Rudd's MaliCool With Mamadou Diabate; Jon Caramanica on Toby Keith ...
Actually, Rudd himself should have known: Decades ago, he was at the center of the free-jazz revolution, a movement whose ethos—perhaps best embodied by trumpeter Don Cherry—was worldly from the start.
Rudd's trombone and Henry Schroy's bass guitar sounded a deep bottom, while Diabate's kora and Fode Bankoura's balafon struck bright, high-end notes.
Yet the music's core was defined by Diabate's complex figures and Rudd's pithy improvisations, as the group moved from African traditional folksongs to Rudd's compositions and beyond.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0408/sotc.php   (723 words)

  
 * Dusted Reviews - Roswell Rudd *
Rudd has always been about placing his slippery slide-calibrated brass in unexpected contexts.
Vocalist Sheila Jordan joins the action on the ecologically-oriented “Blues for the Planet Earth," a loose funeral dirge steeped in brassy drones that recalls the Art Ensemble of Chicago and paints impending planetary peril in polyphonous hues.
The title piece, first in a four-part suite, unfolds as a rambunctious throwback to Rudd and Lacy’s roots in progressive Dixieland bands with a septet strolling another swinging ditty girded by Patti Brown’s comping electric piano.
www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/3214   (408 words)

  
 Sunnyside Records: Artists: Roswell Rudd
Instead, he jumped wholeheartedly into free jazz — a type of music more concerned with exploring sound for its own sake — a style for which he and his instrument were exceedingly well-equipped.
Sunnyside artist Roswell Rudd was named Trombonist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association at their annual awards show held at B.B King’s in New York City.
Roswell’s most recent album, MALIcool, featuring Toumani Diabate, is available in the Sunnyside online store.
www.sunnysiderecords.com /artist.php?id=196   (806 words)

  
 Malicool (Featuring Toumani Diabate), MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
Curiously, although recorded in Mali, half of the tunes are not indigenous to the region: Three are by Rudd, "Jackie-ing" is, of course, by Monk, and "All Through the Night" is a traditional Welsh song.
Rudd plays the only Western-style horn (the others perform on a variety of local instruments or contribute vocals), and his burly tone and raunchy swagger take full advantage of the moment.
As Rudd explains in his notes, the tradition among the Africans is to focus on simple riffs as accompaniments and to continue to explore sections to their fullest rather than jumping to the next section of a song.
www.emusic.com /album/10869/10869527.html   (460 words)

  
 Bagatellen: Roswell Rudd & Mark Dresser - Airwalkers
Instead, this disc combines the talents of two gurus on their respective instruments, septuagenarian Rudd and fifty-something Dresser in a largely informal jam dedicated to dance forms.
With “Duality”, it’s as if Rudd has crammed an entire hubcap into his horn’s mouth, dull metallic vibrations buzzing alongside Dresser’s perambulating rubber band fingerings.
Rudd’s Monk inclinations find release with a drowsy explication on “Don’t Blame Me” while “Lovers Waltz” visits the duo in an uncharacteristically sentimental shared frame of mind and provides a condensed forum for Dresser’s bow.
www.bagatellen.com /archives/reviews/001463.html   (610 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Flexible Flyer: Music: Roswell Rudd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
These wondrous, sublime opening moments in Rudd's definitive interpretation of Michel LeGrand's 'What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life', merely hint at the power and the grace which follow on the rest of Flexible Flyer.
With the re-release of this lost gem, Roswell Rudd is likely to finally get his due.
Rudd's playing always has had a great amount of humor and this recording really shows this off.
www.amazon.com /Flexible-Flyer-Roswell-Rudd/dp/B0000060FB   (717 words)

  
 Tower Records - Mixed - Cecil Taylor Unit/Roswell Rudd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Roswell Rudd Sextet: Roswell Rudd (trombone); Robin Kenyatta (alto saxophone); Giuseppi Logan (flute, bass clarinet); Charlie Haden, Lewis Worrell (bass); Beaver Harris (drums).
The last four cuts are by the Roswell Rudd Sextet and were recorded in 1966 (originally issued as ROSWELL RUDD'S EVERYWHERE).
Charlie Haden and Lewis Worrell both play upright bass, and combined with Rudd's trombone and Giuseppi Logan's bass clarinet, the sound is sensuous, low and warm.
towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1445152&.../RoswellRudd   (461 words)

  
 Roswell Rudd & Archie Shepp: Live in New York : Jazz CD Reviews- July 2001 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Roswell Rudd and Archie Shepp: Live in New York : Jazz CD Reviews- July 2001 MusicWeb(UK)
He is a trombonist who makes most effective use of the slide (rather than treating the instrument as if it were an overgrown trumpet).
Grachan Moncur is an excellent foil for Rudd as can be heard on many selections, especially when they are voiced together.
www.musicweb.uk.net /jazz/2001/July01/RuddShepp.htm   (581 words)

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