Steve Lodder

Steve Lodder ( born April 10, 1951 in Saint Helier, Jersey ) is an English jazz keyboardist.

Lodder learned piano and violin as a child and received initially from 1969 to Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge training as an organist. He began in the late 1970s to work as a professional musician. He entered London with the group Elephant, in duo with Paul Nieman, with Carol Grimes ' Eyes Wide Open Jan Ponsford, John Etheridge, Henry Thomas, Harry Beckett, and others.

From 1987 to 1989 he toured with George Russell's Living Time Orchestra and The International participated in the recording of the double CD Live in London. He also recorded three albums with Carol Grimes. With Brian Abrahams ' District Six, he toured from 1988 to 1990 by Germany and Great Britain, and took on the CD Imgoma Yabantwana. He also undertook the musical director a six-week European tour with Sarah Jane Morris.

At the same time, his collaboration began with Andy Sheppard, 1991, he became a member of the Quintet In Co-Motion ( with Claude depa, Sylvan Richardson and Dave Adams). He became a member of the trio Inclassificable ( with Andy Sheppard and Naná Vasconcelos ) 1992. In the same year he composed and performed the music to the choreography Modern Living by Jonathan Lunn that the Time Out Dance award was given in 1993.

Also in 1992, founded the Lodder Steve Lodder 4tet with Paul Jayasinha, Dudley Phillips and Mike Bradley. In 1994 he accompanied the American singer Ernestine Anderson, in the following year the project saxophones 20th Century, in which he performed classic jazz and contemporary music with Andy Sheppard and John Harle was born.

From 1995 to 1995 Lodder worked with Paul McCartney on his orchestral work, Standing Stone, which was premiered and recorded in 1997. In 1996 he participated in the church organ with saxophonist Mark Ramsden album Above the Clouds on. Since 1997 he toured again with George Russell's Living Time Orchestra, with whom he appeared in the Library of Congress in Washington in 1999.

In 1998 he took part in the European tour of Carla Bley's jazz - rock opera Escalator Over the Hill. In the same year he produced a CD with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and wrote with John Etheridge arrangements of Frank Zappa's jazz compositions. In cooperation with Sheppard made ​​two more CDs on which inter alia Pari John Celli, Chris Laurence, Paul Clarvis and Steve Swallow participated.

In 2000 he recorded a CD with Annie Whitehead, in the following year he released his first album bout time 2 2001 to 2002 he worked on McCartney's choral and orchestral work ecce cor meum, the organ version, it premiered at Magdalen College.