Roswell Rudd

Rudd was born in Sharon, Connecticut, United States.{{cite news |last=Russonello |first=Giovanni |date=December 26, 2017 |title=Roswell Rudd, 82, Trombonist with a Wide-Open Approach, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/obituaries/roswell-rudd-82-trombonist-with-a-wide-open-approach-is-dead.html |newspaper=The New York Times}} 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-1950s. The sextet played the boisterous trad jazz style of the day, and recorded two albums, including one for Columbia Records. His collaborations with Shepp, Cecil Taylor, John Tchicai, and Steve Lacy grew out of the lessons learned while playing rags and stomps for drunken college kids in Connecticut.[http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/table_of_contents/article_excerpts/index.cfm?article_id=16408 Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070622212153/http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/table_of_contents/article_excerpts/index.cfm?article_id=16408 |date=2007-06-22 }}, Jazztimes.com; accessed December 22, 2017. Rudd later taught ethnomusicology at Bard College and the University of Maine.[http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=535 "Bard Press Release: JAZZ AT BARD PRESENTS THE ROSWELL RUDD QUARTET IN CONCERT ON SATURDAY, MARCH 22"], bard.edu, February 18, 2003; accessed December 22, 2017.

On and off, for a period of three decades, he assisted Alan Lomax with his world music song style (Cantometrics)Alan Lomax, Roswell Rudd, and Victor Grauer. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/220653377 "Cantometrics: an approach to the anthropology of music"], Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Extension Media Center, 1976. and Global Jukebox projects.[http://research.culturalequity.org/psr-global_jukebox.jsp "The Global Jukebox"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119101241/http://research.culturalequity.org/psr-global_jukebox.jsp |date=2013-01-19 }}, Association for Cultural Equity; accessed December 22, 2017.

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 had lifelong friendships with saxophonists Shepp and Lacy, and performed and recorded the music of Thelonious Monk with Lacy.Peter Stone. [http://www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/ce_alanlomax_profile_roswell_rudd.php "Roswell Rudd"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119101243/http://www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/ce_alanlomax_profile_roswell_rudd.php |date=2013-01-19 }}. Association for Cultural Equity; accessed December 22, 2017.

Rudd and his producer and partner Verna Gillis went to Mali in 2000 and 2001. His album MALIcool (2001) is a cross-cultural collaboration with kora player Toumani Diabaté and other Malian musicians.Kelefa Sanneh (February 18, 2004). [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/arts/music/18RUDD.html "WORLD MUSIC REVIEW; When Cultures' Sounds Don't Match, but Echo"], The New York Times; accessed December 22, 2017.

In 2004, Rudd 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. He also conducted master classes and workshops both in the United States and around the world.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOY8ipOKpbg "Mitteleuropean Jazz Academy Roswell Rudd Master Class Meran/o (I)"], YouTube; accessed December 22, 2017.

Rudd died of prostate cancer on December 21, 2017, at home in Kerhonkson, New York. His archives were donated to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.{{cite magazine |date=December 2018 |title=What's News |magazine=The New York City Jazz Record |issue=200 |page=5 }}

• Nomination: Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance Male and Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Monk's Dream (1999)
• Trombonist of the Year, Jazz Journalists Association (2003–05, 2009–10)[http://www.jazzhouse.org/2003/index.php?start=30 Jazz Journalists Association, Jazz Awards -- 2003]; Jazzhouse.org, accessed December 22, 2017.[http://www.jazzhouse.org/vote/nominees/winners.php Jazz Journalists Association Eighth Annual Jazz Awards - Winners]; Jazzhouse.org, accessed December 22, 2017.[http://www.jazzhouse.org/2005awards.html Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards 2005]; Jazzhouse.org, accessed December 22, 2017.[http://wn.com/TheJazzmandel Profile], Wn.com; accessed December 22, 2017.[http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2010/ JJA Jazz Awards: 2010 Winners], Jazzhouse.org; accessed December 22, 2017.
• Best Trombonist, Down Beat Critics' Poll (2010)[https://archive.today/20120716215422/http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?t=28448 Roswell Rudd's Trombone Tribe 75th Birthday Party, JazzCorner]; Archive.is, accessed December 22, 2017.

Yale University Dixieland Band, Eli's Chosen Six

• College Jazz: Dixieland (Columbia, 1957)
• Ivy League Jazz (Golden Crest, 1957)

The New York Art Quartet

• 1964: New York Art Quartet (ESP-Disk, 1965)
• 1965: Mohawk (Fontana, 1965)
• 1965: Old Stuff (Cuneiform, 2010) – Live
• 1999: 35th Reunion (DIW, 2000)
• box set: Call It Art (Triple Point, 2013)[5LP] – contains four hours of previously unreleased material and a 150-plus-page coffee-table book

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With Carla Bley

• Escalator over the Hill (JCOA, 1971)
• Dinner Music (Watt, 1976)
• European Tour 1977 (Watt, 1977)
• Musique Mecanique (Watt, 1979)

With Elton Dean

• Rumors of an Incident (Slam, 1996)
• Newsense (Slam, 1997)

With Archie Shepp

• Four for Trane (Impulse!, 1964)
• Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (Impulse!, 1966)
• Mama Too Tight (Impulse!, 1967) – rec. 1966
• Life at the Donaueschingen Music Festival (SABA, 1968)

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With others

• Buell Neidlinger, Cecil Taylor, New York City R&B (Mosaic, 1961)
• Gil Evans, Into the Hot (Impulse!, 1962)
• Steve Lacy, Dennis Charles, Henry Grimes School Days (Hathut, 1963)
• Robin Kenyatta, Until (Atlantic, 1966)
• Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, John Tchicai and Gary Peacock, New York Eye and Ear Control (ESP-Disk, 1967)
• Michael Mantler, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA, 1968)
• Gato Barbieri, The Third World (Flying Dutchman, 1969)
• Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!, 1971)
• Marcello Melis and Don Moye, Village on the Left (Soul Note, 1974)
• Steve Lacy, Beaver Harris, Kent Carter, Trickles (Soul Note, 1975)
• Hans Dulfer, Arjen Gorter, and Martin van Duynhoven, Maine (Bvhaast, 1976)
• Marcello Melis and Enrico Rava, Don Moye, Gruppo Rubanu, The New Village on the Left (Black Saint, 1977)
• Enrico Rava, J.F. JennyClarke and Aldo Romano, Enrico Rava Quartet (ECM, 1978)
• Sangeeta Michael Berardi, Rashied Ali, Eddie Gomez, Archie Shepp, Divine Song (Sunjump, 1979)
• V.A., Interpretations of Monk (DIW, 1981)
• Hal Willner, That's the Way I Feel Now: A tribute to Thelonious Monk (A&M, 1984)
• Paul Haines, Darn it (American Clave, 1992)
• Allen Lowe, Dark Was the Night (Music & Arts, 1994)
• NRBQ and Terry Adams, Wild Weekend (Virgin, 1995)
• Allen Lowe, Woyzeck's Death (Enja, 1995)
• Keith Tippett et al., Bladik (Cuneiform, 1996)
• NRBQ and Terry Adams, Terrible (New World, 1996)
• Nexus Orchestra, Seize the Time (Splasch, 2002)
• Dime Grind Palace, Sex Mob (Ropeadope, 2003)
• one track with Sonic Youth, The Harry Smith Project (Shout! Factory, 2006)
• Michael Mantler, Concertos (ECM, 2008) – rec. 2007
• The Second Approach Trio, The Light (Solyd, 2009)

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• [http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/travel/escapes/23away.html?pagewanted=all Roswell Rudd and Verna Gillis feature], nytimes.com, November 23, 2007.
• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5018546 Interview with Roswell Rudd], npr.org, 2002
• [http://www.mindspring.com/~scala/rudd.htm Discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327012749/http://www.mindspring.com/%7Escala/rudd.htm |date=2016-03-27 }}, Mindspring.com; accessed December 22, 2017.

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