David Tronzo

David Tronzo ( born December 13, 1957 in Rochester, New York ) is an American fusion guitarist. With its percussive game he is considered one of the most important innovators in the Slide Guitar.

Life and work

Tronzo went with blues guitarist in the teaching before the end of the 1980s, settling in New York City. He was a member of Wayne Horvitz's band The president and in 1993 founded with Steven Bernstein and the tuba player Marcus Rojas, the trio Spanish Fly, which ranged from futuristic old-time jazz and rock adaptations. In 1994 he played with guitarist Reeves Gabrels Bowie, the duo album Night in Amnesia one. He was then temporarily a member of the Lounge Lizards and chatted own trio with drummers Jeff Hirshfield and Ben Perowsky and bassist Brad Jones, Stomu Takeishi and JA Granelli and saxophonist Peter Epstein. Then he lived for some years in Amsterdam and toured with Ray Anderson (including Montreal Jazz Festival 1997). After his return to New York he founded the quartet Slow Poke ( with Michael Blake, Kenny Wollesen and Tony Scherr ), played the fake jazz. Around the turn of the millennium, he withdrew a large extent and was occasionally heard as a sideman to return to the 2007 film Talking Guitars and 2008 with Giacomo Merega and Noah Kaplan with the album The Light and Other Things.

Tronzo teaches since 2003 as a high school teacher at the Berklee School of Music.

Awards

He was elected in the Musician's Magazine Press poll one of the top 100 guitarists of the 20th century in 1993. In 1997, he was highlighted in Guitar Player as one of the Dirty Thirty Pioneers and Trailblazers.

Disco Graphical Notes

My albums

With the Tronzo Trio

With Spanish Fly

  • Rags to Britches ( Knitting Factory Works, 1994)
  • Fly by Night (Accurate, 1996)

With Slow Poke

  • Redemption ( Intuition, 2000)

Collaborations

  • Reeves Gabrels with - Night in Amnesia ( Upstart, 1995)
  • With Jerry Granelli and Peter Epstein - Crunch ( Love Slave, 1999)
  • Peter Herbert - segments ( Aziza Music, 2000)
  • With the Paul Weiling Trio - New Amsterdam Reflections ( Loplop, 2003)
  • Hannes Löschel and Achim Tang - Kinds: The Very Life of Art ( Loewe Hertz, 2005)
  • Stephen Vitiello - Scratchy Monsters, Laughing Ghosts ( New Albion, 2005)
  • With Giacomo Merega and Noah Kaplan - The Light and Other Things ( Creative Nation, 2008)

On albums of other musicians

  • Wayne Horvitz 'The President - Bring Yr Camera ( Elektra / Musician, 1989)
  • Leni Stern - Secrets ( Enja, 1989)
  • David Sanborn - Another Hand ( Elektra, 1991)
  • Marshall Crenshaw - Life 's Too Short ( MCA, 1991)
  • Gavin Friday - Adam and Eve ( Iceland, 1992)
  • Phillip Johnston - Big Trouble ( Black Saint, 1992)
  • Jim Nolet - With You ( Knitting Factory Works, 1993)
  • John Cale / Bob Neuwirth - Last Day on Earth ( MCA, 1994)
  • Mike Mainieri - Come Together: A Guitar Tribute to the Beatles ( NYC Music, 1995)
  • John Cale - Walking on Locusts ( Hannibal, 1996)
  • Michael Blake - Kingdom of Champa ( Intuition, 1997)
  • Lounge Lizards - Queen of All Ears ( Strange & Beautiful Music, 1998)
  • Walter Thompson Orchestra - The Colonel ( Nine Winds, 1998)
  • Mike Mainieri - An American Diary, Vol 2: The Dreamings ( NYC Music, 1999)
  • J. A. Granelli & Mr Lucky - El oh el ay ( Love Slave, 2001)
  • Jerry Granelli V16 - The Sonic Temple - Monday and Tuesday ( Songlines, 2007)
  • Ned Rothenberg / Tony Buck / Stomu Takeishi - The Fell Clutch ( Animul, 2007)
  • Jerry Granelli V16 - Vancouver '08 ( Songlines, 2009)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann: Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2002; ISBN 3-15-010528-5
  • Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Jazz fusion Steven Bernstein (musician) David Bowie Ray Anderson (musician) Berklee College of Music Enja Records Elektra Records Island Records Black Saint/Soul Note Tony Buck (musician) Integrated Authority File
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