Ike Sturm
{{Short description|American bassist, composer, and bandleader}}
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| birth_place = Wisconsin, U.S.
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| occupation = Musician, composer
| instrument = Upright bass
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| associated_acts = Ted Poor Quartet, Jostein Gulbrandsen Trio
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Ike Sturm (born 29 June 1978 in Wisconsin) is a bassist, composer, and bandleader in New York. He serves as Music Director for the Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter's Church in Manhattan.{{cite web |url=http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/mobile/person.cfm?personId=544 |title=Ike Sturm |work=Biography |publisher=SmallsJazzClub.com |accessdate=June 14, 2014 |archive-date=December 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210143714/http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/mobile/person.cfm?personId=544 |url-status=dead }}
Biography
Raised in a musical home in Wisconsin, Sturm learned from his father, composer and arranger Fred Sturm. He received degrees from the Eastman School of Music and has performed with Gene Bertoncini, Donny McCaslin, Bobby McFerrin, Ben Monder, Ingrid Jensen, Steve Lehman, Maria Schneider, Kenny Wheeler and many others. He has played on four Down Beat award-winning recordings as well as Steve Reich's albums for Cantaloupe Music and Nonesuch Records. He has appeared with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Signal and Alarm Will Sound.
Commissioned by Saint Peter's Church, he composed Jazz Mass as a large-scale work featuring choir, string orchestra, and saxophonist Donny McCaslin.{{cite web |url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/25298-the-double-life-of-jazz-bassist-ike-sturm |title=The Double Life of Jazz Bassist Ike Sturm |first=Lee |last=Mergner |publisher=JazzTimes |date=2009-07-11 |accessdate=June 14, 2014}} The recording received 4 1/2 stars rating and was named among the Best of 2010 in Down Beat magazine. Jazz Mass premiered in Europe in 2011 at the Gedächtniskirche in Berlin.{{cite web |url=http://www.storsalen.no/nyheter/?artikkel_id=2453 |title=Ike Sturm Ensemble (New York) og Jazzå Storband konsert Mandag 12. mars kl. 20.00 i Storsalen |language=Norwegian |first=Geir Kåre |last=Kvalevaag |publisher=Storsalen.no |date=February 2, 2012 |accessdate=June 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013075324/http://www.storsalen.no/nyheter/?artikkel_id=2453 |archive-date=October 13, 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Discography
= Solo albums =
= Collaborations =
;With Steve Reich
- 2002: Tehillim / The Desert Music (Cantaloupe)
;With Ted Poor Quartet
- 2004: All Around (Trier)
;With Kira Fontana
- 2007: The Inner Revolution (Spark the Fire)
;With Alan Ferber
;With Jostein Gulbrandsen Trio
- 2011: Release of Tension (CD Baby){{cite web |url=http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/JosteinGulbrandsentrio |title=Jostein Gulbrandsen trio |work=Biography |publisher=CDbaby.com |accessdate=June 14, 2015}}
;With J.J. Wright
References
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External links
- {{Official website|ikesturm.com}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_JOQ3GMh1M Ike Sturm "Stillness"] on YouTube
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Category:American jazz composers
Category:American jazz double-bassists
Category:American male double-bassists
Category:Eastman School of Music alumni
Category:21st-century American double-bassists
Category:American male jazz composers