Roswell Rudd
Roswell Hopkins Rudd ( born November 17, 1935 in Sharon, Connecticut) is an American jazz musician ( trombone ) and ethnomusicologist.
Life and work
Rudd worked for a degree at Yale University in 1965 along with Alan Lomax as an ethnomusicologist. He accompanied for a while a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Maine, to then go back to work as a musician.
Rudd's ethnomusicological research also influenced his compositions and his musical projects. He drew connections between the jazz tradition, the various forms of ethnic music and also the legacy of classical European music. What he at first believed to recognize as typical expression of African-American music, for example in the blues, he felt later on in all areas of so-called world music. Together with Verna Gillis took Rudd 2000, a research trip to Mali, where he dealt with the traditional kora and first met on Toumani Diabaté.
Discography (selection)
- Roswell Rudd and the Mongolian Buryat Mongol band Blue (2005)
- Malicool ( Toumani Diabaté and with other African musicians, 2002)
- Monk's Dream ( with Steve Lacy, 1996)
- Regeneration ( Soul Note, 1982) with Steve Lacy, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg and Kent Carter
- Interpretations of Monk ( with Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Charlie Rouse, Ed Blackwell, Richard Davis and pianist Barry Harris, Mal Waldron, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Davis, 1981)
- The Unheard Herbie Nichols ( CIMP, 1996)
- Enrico Rava Quartet ( with Jean -François Jenny -Clark and Aldo Romano, 1978)
- Numatik Swing Band (1973 )
- Flexible Flyer ( with Sheila Jordan, H. O'Brien, Barry Altschul and Arild Andersen, 1971)
- Everywhere ( with Giuseppi Logan, Lewis Worrell, Charles Haden, Beaver Harris, Robin Kenyatta, 1966, Impulse)
- School Days ( with Steve Lacy, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles, 1963)