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Roswell Rudd Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. Sharon Connecticut November 17 1935 - December 21 2017 Was An American Jazz Trombonist And Composer. Although Skilled In A Variety Of Genres Of Jazz Including Dixieland Which He Performed While In College And Other Genres Of Music He Was Known Primarily For His Work In Free And Avant-Garde Jazz. Since 1962 Rudd Had Worked Extensively With Saxophonist Archie Shepp. Rudd Was Born In Sharon Connecticut. He Attended The Hotchkiss School And Graduated From Yale University Where He Played With Eli's Chosen Six A Dixieland Band Of 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 Records. His 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 He Assisted Alan Lomax With His World Music Song Style Cantometrics And Global Jukebox Projects. In The 1960s Rudd Participated In Free Jazz Recordings Such As The New York Art Quartet The Soundtrack For The 1964 Movie New York Eye And Ear Control The Album Communications By The Jazz Composer's Orchestra And In Collaborations With Don Cherry Larry Coryell Pharoah Sanders And Gato Barbieri. Rudd Has Had Lifelong Friendships With Saxophonists Archie Shepp And Steve Lacy And Has Performed And Recorded The Music Of Thelonious Monk With Lacy. Rudd And His Producer And Partner Verna Gillis Went To Mali In 2000 And 2001. His Album MALIcool 2001 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 Further Recording An Album With The Mongolian Buryat Band A Traditional Music Group Of Musicians From Mongolia And Buryatia Entitled Blue Mongol. Rudd Conducted Master Classes And Workshops Both In The United States And Around The World. He Was A Resident Of Kerhonkson New York. Awards And Honors
Nomination Grammy Award For Best Vocal Performance Male And Best Jazz Instrumental Album Monk's Dream 1999 Trombonist Of The Year Jazz Journalists Association 2003–2005 2009 2010 Best Trombonist Down Beat Critics' Poll 2010 Discography As Leader
1965 Roswell Rudd America 1966 Everywhere Also Released As Part Of Mixed 1973 Numatik Swing Band
1974 Flexible Flyer Freedom 1976 Blown Bone Emanem 1976 Inside Job With Enrico Rava Dave Burrell Stafford James Harold White Arista/Freedom 1978 The Definitive Roswell Rudd Horo 1982 Regeneration With Steve Lacy Misha Mengelberg Kent Carter Han Bennink Soul Note 1996 The Unheard Herbie Nichols–Vols. 1 & 2 CIMP 1999 New York Art Quartet 35 Reunion DIW 1999 Monk's Dream Universal/Verve 2000 Broad Strokes Knitting Factory 2001 Eventuality The Charlie Kohlhase Quintet Plays The Music Of Roswell Rudd NADA 2001 Roswell Rudd And Archie Shepp Live In New York Universal 2002 MALIcool Universal/Sunnyside 2005 Blue Mongol Sunnyside 2006 El Espiritu Jibaro Sunnyside 2007 Keep Your Heart Right Sunnyside 2008 El Encuentro Mojito 2013 Trombone For Lovers Sunnyside 2016 August Love Song With Heather Masse Red House 2016 Strength & Power RareNoise 2017 Embrace RareNoise As Sideman
1957 Eli's Chosen 6 Yale University Dixieland Band Columbia 1961 New York City R&B Buell Neidlinger Cecil Taylor Mosaic 1962 Into The Hot Gil Evans/Cecil Taylor Impulse 1963 School Days Steve Lacy Dennis Charles Henry Grimes Hathut 1964 Four For Trane With Archie Shepp Impulse 1964 New York Art Quartet John Tchicai Milford Graves ESP-Disk 1966 Until With Robin Kenyatta Atlantic 1966 Archie Shepp Live In San Francisco With Archie Shepp Impulse 1966 Mama Too Tight With Archie Shepp Impulse 1966 New York Eye And Ear Control Don Cherry Albert Ayler John Tchicai And Gary Peacock ESP-Disk 1967 Live At Donaueschingen SABA 1968 The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
1969 The Third World Gato Barbieri Flying Dutchman 1971 Escalator Over The Hill Carla Bley JCOA 1971 Liberation Music Orchestra Charlie Haden Impulse 1972 Roswell Rudd New York Art Quartet America 1974 Village On The Left Marcello Melis & Don Moye Soul Note 1975 Trickles Steve Lacy Beaver Harris Kent Carter Soul Note 1976 Maine Bvhaast 1976 Dinner Music With Carla Bley Watt 1977 The New Village On The Left With Marcello Melis And Enrico Rava Don Moye Gruppo Rubanu Black Saint 1977 European Tour 1977 With Carla Bley Watt 1978 Enrico Rava Quartet Enrico Rava J.F. JennyClarke & Aldo Romano ECM 1979 Divine Song With Sangeeta Michael Berardi Rashied Ali Eddie Gomez Archie Shepp
1979 Sharing Giorgio Gaslini Discgidella Quercia 1979 Musique Mecanique With Carla Bley Watt 1981 Interpretations Of Monk 1984 That's The Way I Feel Now
1992 Darn It With Paul Haines American Clave 1994 Dark Was The Night With Allen Lowe
1995 Wild Weekend NRBQ & Terry Adams Virgin 1995 Woyzeck's Death With Allen Lowe Enja 1996 Bladik Keith Tippett Et Al. Cuneiform 1996 Rumors Of An Incident With Elton Dean Slam 1996 Terrible NRBQ & Terry Adams New World 1997 Newsense With Elton Dean Slam 2002 Seize The Time Nexus Orchestra Splasch 2003 Sex Mob Dime Grind Palace Ropeadope 2006 Dry Bones With Sonic Youth The Harry Smith Project Shout! Factory 2008 Concertos Michael Mantler ECM read less