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Stu Martin (drummer)

{{short description|American drummer}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Stu Martin

| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist

| birth_name = Stuart Victor Martin

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|6|11}}

|image =Stu Martin-140915-0002WP.jpg

| caption = Stuart Victor Martin

| birth_place = Liberty, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1980|6|12 |1938|6|11|mf=yes}}

| death_place =Paris, France

| genre = Jazz

| occupation = Musician

| instrument = Drums

| years_active = 1950s–1979

}}

Stuart Victor Martin (June 11, 1938 – June 12, 1980) was an American jazz drummer.{{cite book |last1=Carles |first1=Philippe |last2=Clergeat |first2=Andre |last3=Comolli |first3=Jean Louis |title=Dictionnaire du jazz |publisher=Robert Laffont |location=Paris |isbn=978-2221078228 |page=775 |edition=Nouvelle éd. augmentée}}

Career

Martin was a professional musician by the age of sixteen when he played drums for the big bands of Count Basie, Jimmy Dorsey, Les and Larry Elgart, Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson, Quincy Jones, and Billy May. In the 1960s he worked with Gary Burton, Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Oliver Nelson, Sonny Rollins, Steve Swallow, and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross. He was a member of a band in West Germany that consisted of Lee Konitz, Albert Mangelsdorff, and Attila Zoller and in a band with Rolf Kuhn and Joachim Kuhn. Martin was a member of The Trio with Barre Phillips and John Surman, then as a member with Charlie Mariano. In the 1970s he recorded with Carla Bley, Slide Hampton, and John McLaughlin.{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Gary |editor1-last=Kernfeld |editor1-first=Barry |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz |date=2002 |publisher=Grove's Dictionaries |location=New York |isbn=1-56159-284-6 |page=721 |volume=2 |edition=2nd }}

In 1975, the Trio went to Paris to do a collaborative project with the Paris Opera orchestra and the Carolyn Carlson Dance Company. After this project, he continued to play with the Trio and also toured with the rock band New York Gong.{{cite web |title=Three Questions for Kramer |last=Moody |first=Rick |date=20 July 2020 |publisher=The Believer |url=https://believermag.com/logger/three-questions-for-kramer/ |access-date=30 July 2021}}

Martin died at the age of 42 in Paris as the result of a heart attack. He’s survived by his son Zeke Martin{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Discography

=As leader=

  • Alors with Barre Phillips, Michel Portal, John Surman (Futura, 1970)
  • Where Fortune Smiles with John McLaughlin (Dawn, 1971)
  • Conflagration, The Trio with Phillips and Surman (1971)
  • Live at Woodstock Town Hall with John Surman (Dawn, 1975)
  • Mountainscapes with Barre Phillips (ECM, 1976)
  • Sunrise (EPM, 1996){{cite web |title=Stu Martin {{!}} Album Discography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stu-martin-mn0000630658/discography |website=AllMusic |accessdate=31 December 2018 |language=en-us}}

=As sideman=

With Curtis Fuller

With Quincy Jones

With Sonny Rollins

With Tomasz Stańko, Tomasz Szukalski

  • Double Concerto for Five Soloists and Orchestra (Poljazz, 1972)

With Tomasz Stańko, Janusz Stefański

With others

References

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Category:American jazz drummers

Category:1938 births

Category:1980 deaths

Category:20th-century American drummers

Category:American male drummers

Category:20th-century American male musicians

Category:American male jazz musicians

Category:Drummers from New York (state)