[Dixielandjazz] Roswell Rudd

[Stephen G Barbone]

Roswell Rudd is one of the most inventive trombonists around. He was  
originally a Dixieland player at the Hotchkiss Prep School in  
Connecticut, then with Eli's Chosen Six at Yale University, and then  
played some Dixieland in NYC before meeting Archie Shepp and Steve  
Lacy. I played a couple of Dixieland gigs with him on trombone Jack  
Fine on trumpet, Ahmed Abdul Malik on Bass, a German drummer named  
Harry something, and Jerry Bevins on piano at the Cinderella Club in  
NYC some 50+ years ago.

He is far out now, but still puts the smears and tailgate of New  
Orleans into his compositions and solos. For a while he mixed  
Dixieland with Thelonious Monk calling his program "Monksieland." A  
most interesting man with a huge appetite for jazz.

Below snipped from an All About Jazz article.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


Roswell Rudd / Lafayette Harris Duo Live at the Rubin Museum NYC

The Roswell Rudd / Lafayette Harris Duo will be performing in concert  
at The Rubin Museum in NYC on January 16th, 2009 at 7:00PM as part of  
the 2009 Winter/Spring Harlem in the Himalayas Series. Rosewell Rudd-  
Trombone Lafayette Harris - Piano

In addition to an original composition inspired by Himalayan art,  
trombonist Roswell Rudd and pianist Lafayette Harris will play the  
music of the great jazz pianists including Fats Waller, Herbie  
Nichols, Thelonious Monk, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, and James  
P. Johnson and original music by Roswell Rudd dedicated to these icons.

Roswell Rudd (born Roswell Hopkins Rudd, Jr. in Sharon, Connecticut,  
on November 17, 1935) is an American jazz trombonist. Although skilled  
in all styles of jazz (including dixieland, which he performed while  
in college), he is known primarily for his work in free and avant- 
garde jazz. Since 1962 Rudd has worked extensively with Archie Shepp,  
a close friend.

Rudd participated in key free jazz recordings, notably with the New  
York Art Quartet, on the soundtrack recording for Michael Snow's 1964  
film New York Eye and Ear Control, and Michael Mantler & Carla Bley's  
1968 “Jazz Composer's OrchestrA- Communications” featuring Cecil  
Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Larry Coryell and Gato Barbieri.  
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. Rudd has been a frequent visitor to the  
African nation of Mali, performing and recording with Malian  
musicians. His 2001 CD MALIcool, a cross-cultural collaboration with  
kora player Toumani Diabat 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 Dsert in Essakane, Tombouctou Region,  
Mali. In 2005 he extended his reach even further, recording a CD with  
a traditional Buryat music group from Mongolia, entitled Blue Mongol.  
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.