[Dixielandjazz] Roswell Rudd - was left handed musicians

[Mike]

I actually just really started getting into Roswell Rudd not too long 
ago. His Malicool album is definitely worth taking a listen to.

Mike



Steve Barbone wrote:
> "Dave Hanson" <jazzdude39 at comcast.net> wrote
>   
> 
> Actually Roswell Rudd was a Dixieland trombonist before he went further out
> with bop, and then avant garde music. He is now very far out. Performs in
> NYC ebery now and then.
> 
> Originally in a Dixieland band at the Hotchkiss Prep School in Connecticut,
> then with Eli's Chosen Six of Yale University and then in NYC with various
> Dixieland groups. Then he met Archie Shepp, Cevcil Taylor and others and
> rapidly went to Bop, to Free Jazz to Avant Garde.
> 
> He currently plays "world" music appearing with Tibetan, and African, and
> other groups.
> 
> Interestingly enough, he incorporates New Orleans tailgate into these
> various musical genres complete with slides, smears and growls.
> 
> Some say it's like listening to Kid Ory on Crack. :-)
> 
> Hell of a guy, hell of a player. I worked with him in the late 1950s when he
> was still playing Dixieland. At the Cinderella Club with trumpeter Jack Fine
> and Ahmed Abdul Malik formerly a Thelonious Monk bass player who was going
> back to the roots while Rudd was seeking enlightenment with Cecil Taylor. I
> think he is on records with Taylor circa 1960 or so.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone