David Tronzo
{{short description|American guitarist (born 1957)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = David Tronzo
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|12|13}}
| birth_place = Rochester, New York, U.S.
| genre = Jazz, pop, rock, experimental
| occupation = Musician
| instrument = Guitar
| years_active = 1972–present
| associated_acts = The Lounge Lizards, Spanish Fly
}}
David Tronzo (born 1957) is an American guitarist, best known{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/16/arts/review-jazz-david-tronzo-and-guitar.html |title=Review/Jazz; David Tronzo And Guitar |first=Jon |last=Pareles |date=16 February 1992 |newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/open0202_05.htm |publisher=All About Jazz |first=Laurence |last=Donohue-Green |title=Open Ears |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709012416/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/open0202_05.htm |archivedate=July 9, 2008 }}{{cite news |magazine=New Yorker |date=August 1994 |url=http://www.jnovohradsky.com/kinds/html/tronzo.html |title=David R. Tronzo}} for his innovation of pairing the techniques of electric slide guitar with the genres of bebop, modern jazz, rock, downtown music, and experimental music. He has recorded with former David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels, Wayne Horvitz,{{cite web|url=http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/horvitz.htm |title=Discography of Wayne Horzitz |first=Patrice |last=Roussel}} David Sanborn,{{cite web |url=http://riad.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/dejohnette/another.txt |title=Davide Sanborn: "Another Hand" |year=1991 |publisher=Elektra Musician}} and The Lounge Lizards.{{cite web |url=http://www.strangeandbeautiful.com/goods/music/queen/index.html |title=Queen of All Ears}}
Biography
David Tronzo was born in 1957 in Rochester, New York. He was drawn to music at age eleven and decided on guitar by age thirteen and taught himself. By age fifteen he was playing gigs. "I was playing five nights a week, though I really just had three good notes and five good chords."{{cite web |url=http://www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail/david-tronzo |title=David Tronzo, Associate Professor |publisher=Berklee College of Music}} He credits rock music as an early influence.
He lived in New York City from 1979 to 2002. As Visiting Artist at Berlin's Hochschule der Künste (HdK), his technique on the slide guitar was documented in two doctoral theses in Germany, in 1995 and 2001. He has also been an Artist in Residence at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine.{{citation |url=http://www.haystack-mtn.org/documents/Fall2007.pdf |date=Fall 2007 |title=Haystack Gateway }}
He appeared in the movie Talking Guitars as himself in 2007. His work has also appeared on the soundtracks of two films: Short Cuts in 1993 and Excess Baggage in 1997.
Tronzo has been an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music since 2003.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/tronzo-david-richard |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians |title=Tronzo, David (Richard) |publisher=jazz.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821211521/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/tronzo-david-richard |archivedate=2008-08-21}} {{Cite web|url=https://www.berklee.edu/berklee-today/winter-2010/playing-for-life|title = Playing for Life | Berklee}}
Awards and honors
- 1993 Voted one of the Top 100 Guitarists of the 20th Century in Musician magazine Press Poll
- 1994 Voted one of the Top Ten Jazz Guitarists by Musician magazine
- 1995 Voted second in its 1995 poll for Best Experimental Guitarist by Guitar Player magazine
Discography
=As leader=
- Roots (Knitting Factory, 1994)
- Night in Amnesia with Reeves Gabrels (Upstart, 1995)
- Crunch (Love Slave, 1999){{cite web |title=David Tronzo {{!}} Album Discography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-tronzo-mn0000199822/discography |website=AllMusic |accessdate=23 February 2019 |language=en-us}}
- Scratchy Monsters, Laughing Ghosts with Stephen Vitiello (New Albion, 2005)
- The Light and Other Things (Creative Nation Music, 2007)
=As member=
- Queen of All Ears, Lounge Lizards (Strange & Beautiful Music, 1998)
- Redemption, Slow Poke (Intuition, 1999)
- At Home, Slow Poke (Palmetto, 2007)
- V16, V16 (2003)
- The Sonic Temple Monday and Tuesday, V16 (2007)
- Vancouver '08, V16 (2008)
- 100 Years of Flight, Club D'Elf (KUFALA, 2005)
- Gravity All Nonsense Now, Club D'Elf (KUFALA, 2005)
- Now I Understand, Club D'Elf (Accurate, 2006)
- Electric Moroccoland/So Below, Club D'Elf (Face Pelt, 2011){{cite web |title=David Tronzo {{!}} Credits |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-tronzo-mn0000199822/credits |website=AllMusic |accessdate=23 February 2019 }}
=As sideman=
- Another Hand, David Sanborn (1991)
- Life's Too Short, Marshall Crenshaw (1991)
- Live at the Knitting Factory, John Zorn (1992)
- Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble, Phillip Johnston (1992)
- Last Day on Earth, John Cale/Bob Neuwirth (1994)
- Time Was, Curtis Stigers (1995)
- Travel On, Julian Dawson (1995)
- Walking on Locusts, John Cale (1996)
- An American Diary Vol. 2, Mike Mainieri (1999)
- Candy and Dirt, Heather Eatman (1999)
- Tender Trap, Janis Siegel (1999)
- Written in Red, Louise Taylor (2000)
- Real, Heather Eatman (2001)
- Dime Grind Palace, Sex Mob (2003)
- You Inspire Me, Curtis Stigers (2003)
References
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- {{cite journal|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/aaj_ny_200809.pdf |journal=All About Jazz |date=September 2008 |issue=77 |first=Karla |last=Cornejo |title=Review of the album "The Light and Other Things" |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920185429/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/aaj_ny_200809.pdf |archivedate=September 20, 2008 }}
- {{cite web | url = http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=28697 |publisher = All About Jazz | title = Giacomo Merega, David Tronzo, Noah Kaplan: The Light and Other Things (2008) | first = Phil | last = DiPietro | date = 15 March 2008}}
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Category:Musicians from Rochester, New York
Category:Berklee College of Music faculty
Category:American jazz guitarists
Category:20th-century American guitarists
Category:Jazz musicians from New York (state)