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Steve Swell

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Born in Newark, NJ, Steve Swell has been an active member of the NYC music community since 1975. He has toured and recorded with many artists from mainstreamers such as Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich to so called outsiders as Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor and William Parker. He has over 30 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artists on more than 100 other releases. He runs workshops around the world and is a teaching artist in the NYC public school system focusing on special needs children.

Steve was nominated for Trombonist of the Year 2008, 2011 & 2022 by the Jazz Journalists Association, was selected Trombonist of the Year 2008-2010, 2012, 2014-2021 & 2023 by the magazine El Intruso of Argentina and received the 2008 Jubilation Foundation Fellowship Award of the Tides Foundation. The Downbeat Critics Poll selected him for the Trombone category in 2010-2018 & 2020-2023.

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Article: Profile

A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 4

Read "A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 4" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The fourth installment of A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz--a series developed with the cooperation of the Ukrainian Institute--introduces four more highly talented jazz artists/groups from Ukraine. The vast range of personal musical identities attests to the strength, depth and originality of contemporary ...

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Article: Album Review

Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies, Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations

Read "Soliloquies, Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Violinist Jason Kao Hwang is the kind of collaborator every creative improviser dreams of having. His résumé reads like a who's who of avant-garde jazz, including partnerships with Butch Morris, Henry Threadgill, William Parker, Ivo Perelman, Anthony Braxton, and Steve Swell, among others. Hwang's musical versatility and deeply intuitive improvisational sensibility have made him a sought-after ...

Article: Album Review

Joëlle Léandre: Lifetime Rebel

Read "Lifetime Rebel" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


RogueArt presenta questo cofanetto di cinque dischi interamente dedicato alla figura della leggendaria contrabbassista francese Joëlle Léandre, documentando la sua presenza al Vision Festival 2023, tenutosi presso il Roulette di Brooklyn, e aggiungendovi un concerto tenutosi pochi mesi dopo in Francia ed un DVD con un video nel quale l'artista suona alcuni brani in solo durante ...

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Article: In Pictures

ArtActs 2025

Read "ArtActs 2025" reviewed by Luciano Rossetti


Article: Album Review

PNY Quintet: Over the Wall

Read "Over the Wall" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


PNY è l'acronimo che unisce Parigi e New York. All'insegna di tale tracciato avviene l'incontro che sta all'origine di questo CD, sfociato nella registrazione di Over the Wall. Anche se l'album è a nome collettivo, e se nell'ordine dei musicisti elencati in copertina sono in prima fila i ben noti Steve Swell e Rob Brown, una ...

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Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024

Read "John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024" reviewed by John Sharpe


From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2024, here are the ten new issues and three gems saved from obscurity, which gave me the most pleasure. As always these selections are entirely subjective, and take no account of the many other albums which I would no doubt have loved if I had heard ...

Album

Lifetime Rebel

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1 (Tiger Trio):
Tiger Trio #1; Tiger Trio #2; Tiger Trio #3; Tiger Trio #4; Tiger Trio #5; Tiger Trio #6.
CD 2 (Roaring Tree):
Roaring Tree #1; Roaring Tree #2; Roaring Tree #3; Roaring Tree #4.
CD 3 (Atlantic Ave. 7tet):
Atlantic Ave. #1 - excerpt; Atlantic Ave. #1.
CD 4 (Joëlle Léandre - Fred Moten):
Hughson's Tavern - excerpt; Hughson's Tavern.

Album

Cereal Music

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ode to Kidd Jordan; Baseball; Birth; Death; Do Dreams Sleep; Ellen and Leaves Floating; Plea; Into My Heart; Touring; Sonny; Uninvited Guest; We Were Very Civilized; Batala; Windshield Wipers; Prayer.

Album

Oblongata

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2024
Track listing: 501 Memo; Who Goes There; Roxanne; Steepening Curve; Waving Around The Corner; Oblongata; Interjection; Stills; Piling On.


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