Robin Eubanks
Robin Eubanks ( born October 25, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz trombonist. Between 1989 and 1995 he was elected five times by the critics of Down Beat magazine at the best trumpet players of our time.
Life
Robin Eubanks was born on October 25, 1955 in Philadelphia in a very musical family inside. His mother was a music teacher, whose brothers were Ray Bryant, a jazz pianist, and jazz bassist Tommy Bryant. Eubanks is the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks, who was best known as the musical director of the Tonight Show; his other brother Duane Eubanks is trumpeter in New York. At eight, Robin Eubanks began his music education, first at the Settlement Music School, then at Temple University School of Music (both in Philadelphia ). At the University of Arts in Philadelphia later he not only studied trombone, but also music theory, harmony, composition and arranging.
Work
After graduating, he moved to New York, where he began a career as a freelance jazz musician. He played since with such well-known, such as Elvin Jones, Eddie Palmieri, Sun Ra, Barbra Streisand, The Rolling Stones and Talking Heads. Twice he was awarded the Grammy: In 2003, the Dave Holland Big Band for the album What Goes Around and in 2004 with Michael Brecker Quindectet for the album Wide Angels.
Eubanks was the musical director of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for a short time. He worked with the M -Base Collective and is a member of the Dave Holland Quintet and the SFJAZZ Collective. He runs two own formations EB3 and Mental Images. EB3 is a trio consisting of drummer Kenwood Dennard, pianist Michele Rose Woman and Eubanks. Mental Images is a larger formation with partially changing cast to the other under his brother Kevin Eubanks, drummer Billy Kilson and bassist Dave Holland belong.
Between 1984 and 1994 he was a teacher at the prestigious Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Today, he is an Assistant Professor of Jazz Trombone at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. He also belongs to the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and has held numerous workshops and master classes throughout the world. He is increasingly active in recent years as a composer. He received in 2002 and 2003 two composition scholarships over the years, one of Chamber Music America and the other from ASCAP.
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Recordings under his own name
- Wake Up Call ( Sirocco Jazz, 1997)
- Dedication ( JMT / Winter & Winter, 1989)
- Different Perspectives ( JMT / Winter & Winter, 1988) with Steve Turré
- Mental Images ( JMT Records / Winter & Winter, 1994)
- 4: JJ / Slide / Curtis and Al ( TCB, 1998)
- Mental Images: Get 2 It ( REM, 2001)
Recordings as a player (selection)
- Geri Allen: Open on All Sides - In the Middle ( Minor Music, 1987)
- Geri Allen: The Gathering ( Verve, 1998)
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: I Get a Kick out of Bu ( Soul Note, 1988)
- Kenny Drew Jr: Follow the Spirit ( Sirocco Jazz, 2000)
- Joe Henderson Big Band ( Verve, 1992)
- Dave Holland Big Band: What Goes Around (ECM, 2002)
- Dave Holland Quintet: Razor's Edge (ECM, 1987)
- Dave Holland Quintet: Not for Nothin ' (ECM, 2001)
- Dave Holland Quintet: Extended Play (ECM, 2003)
- Freddie Hubbard: Monk, Miles, Train & Cannon ( Music Master, 1994)
- Freddie Hubbard: God Bless the Child ( Music Master, 1998)
- Abdullah Ibrahim: Good News from Africa: Portrait ( Enja, 1979)
- J. J. Johnson: Brass Orchestra ( PolyGram, 1996)
- Mingus Big Band: Essential Mingus Big Band ( Dreyfus 1996)
- Sun Ra: Other Side of the Sun ( Universe, 1978)
- Barbra Streisand: The Concert (Sony, 1994)
- Talking Heads: Naked ( Sire, 1988)
- McCoy Tyner Big Band: Uptown / Downtown ( Milestone, 1988)
- McCoy Tyner: Incontournables (WEA, 2000)
- Grover Washington, Jr.: All My Tomorrows (Sony, 1994)
- Sadao Watanabe: Remembrance ( Verve, 1999)