cello in jazz

[alocispepraluger102]

More people need to know about David Eyges.

have a lovely-paul bley-eyges quartet disc. not at all sweet and celloey..........

[sidewinder]

My favourite with the 'cello has got to be Dolphy's 'Out There'.

Theres also a fine cellist currently operating in British Jazz called Ben Davis. He's prominently featured in the front line of Ingrid Laubrock's Quintet and can be heard on the release 'Forensic'. One to watch !

[alocispepraluger102]

Another favorite of mine is Fred Katz who recorded with Chico Hamilton quintet.

south pacific was i think the first cello i had heard in jazz

[Bright Moments]

My favourite with the 'cello has got to be Dolphy's 'Out There'.

Theres also a fine cellist currently operating in British Jazz called Ben Davis. He's prominently featured in the front line of Ingrid Laubrock's Quintet and can be heard on the release 'Forensic'. One to watch !

thanks bob! i will definately check this one out!

[sidewinder]

Definitely check that one out, evan. Ingrid's band is one of the most interesting to come out of the UK for some time. They played the Bath Fest on Friday but unfortunately I missed them ( ).

[king ubu]

a great one by Mark Friedlander, solo cello:

Available here from CDbaby.

[king ubu]

Dave Douglas has worked on a couple of projects with a cellist named Peggy Lee (no, not HER). ...

Check this one out (I think it's OOP but I've seen it here and there):

hatology 513 - Carlos Zingaro / Peggy Lee: Western Front, Vancouver 1996

[king ubu]

Swiss cellist Martin Schütz is another great musician, member of the "hardcore chamber trio" Koch-Schütz-Studer (with Hans Koch and Fredy Studer). I have "Heavy Cairo Traffic" and "Fidel" by this trio and will prob. get "Life Tied" (got rave reviews in the swiss press) - definitely not cello-music of any kind, and definitely not too easy on anyone's ears, but worth checking out all the more!

Schütz can also be heard on what's a classic of swiss jazz, "Accélération" (ECM 1357, 1987, out on CD):

[Bright Moments]

thanks ubu!!!

[king ubu]

thanks ubu!!!

welcome! back from undercover... if you want to check out Schütz or rather the great Koch-Schütz-Studer gang, I'd go for "Heavy Cairo Traffic", their meeting with traditional egyptian musicians - a great disc! I think it's on the Intuition label - I have no idea if you can find that in the US... but you should find it somewhere on the net, I suppose.

[king ubu]

on the more traditional side:

Still to be found easily in its LPR incarnation - a lightweight disc, but a fun one! (The "Bass Hit" album - on CD in the Verve Elite Edition - has much more meat, in my opinion, but I'm not sure if he plays cello there, and if, only on one or two tunes.)

[Guest akanalog]

yeah i would look for dogon A.D. or flat out jump suite. both by julius hemphill and both featuring wadud's cello.

[Hank]

yeah i would look for dogon A.D. or flat out jump suite. both by julius hemphill and both featuring wadud's cello.

A while back, Tim Berne's website had a download available of a needle-drop of Dogon A.D. Doesn't seem to be there now. This album is a classic that should be made available on CD.

[Peter Friedman]

Sam Jones plays cello and is the leader on these two Riverside CDs/LPs

Down Home

The Soul Society

[Bright Moments]

Sam Jones plays cello and is the leader on these two Riverside CDs/LPs

Down Home

The Soul Society

[Bright Moments]

My favourite with the 'cello has got to be Dolphy's 'Out There'.

Theres also a fine cellist currently operating in British Jazz called Ben Davis. He's prominently featured in the front line of Ingrid Laubrock's Quintet and can be heard on the release 'Forensic'. One to watch !

thanks bob! i will definately check this one out!

got it! quite different and recommended for the funny ratters!

[Joe]

Calo Scott. Not many appearances on record, but a player whose work merits close attention.

Gato Barbieri: IN SEARCH OF THE MYSTERY [ESP]

Edited June 7, 2006 by Joe

[robertoart]

I've always enjoyed Abdul Wadud's stuff e.g. with Hemphill.

Also Wadud's work with Arthur Blythe: LENOX AVENUE BREAKDOWN and ILLUSIONS.

Yeh what a great band....also the same band with Wadud recorded the also excellent Elaborations with Kelvyn Bell on guitar instead of Blood Ulmer

[Bright Moments]

so i had to find david darling all by myself?

for those who dig the ECM sound only.

Edited June 16, 2006 by Bright Moments

[sidewinder]

Anyone mentioned Paul Buckmaster yet? Virtuoso cellist and collaborator with Miles Davis for the 'On The Corner' session. Also arranged the strings for Bowie's 'Space Oddity' and had a major hand in the Chitinous Ensemble's rather way-out disk for Deram.

[clifford_thornton]

Buckmaster - yes - from the Third Ear Band!

I would like to hear that Zingaro/Lee disc mentioned above. I'll bet it's great.

[Д.Д.]

Tom Cora - late NYC downtown cello innovator. Played some heavy fiery stuff. His compilation disc on Knitting Facotry (with many of the NYC downtown big names - Zirn, Frith, etc.) is essential.

Matt Turner is my favorite living cellist (and a very distinctive pianist as well). He has several outsntainding solo records on Meniscus ("The Mouse that Roared" it's called, I htink) and Fever Pitch.

Vincent Coutois, who's been mentioned above, has a beutiful intense solo on Enja MW from a couple of years ago - I would recommend it above his sideman works.

Joan Jeanrenaud from Kronos Quartet has engaged in several improv. projects with success. I would highly recommend her disc with Larry Ochs and Miya Masaoka called "Fly, Fly, Fly" (on Intakt).

Erik Friedlander's solo disc "Maldoror" mentioned by ubu is excellent (CD Baby site has a lot of samples), and is better than anything elese he's done (IMO).

Thomas Demenga has released some very intersting things on ECM, includign veryl iberal interpretations of Bach's cello sonatas.

Daniel Levin has a nice disc on Riti - it's in quartet (bass, vibes, cornet, cello).

Fred Lonberg-Holm is very active in very diverse projects. I really enjoyed his duo with Carlos Zingaro (violin) released on his own Flying Aspidistra label this year.

Ernst Reijseger menitoned by Nat is a improv. cello vetaran. I like his work in a long-standing trio with Georg Gräwe and Gerry Hemingway (they just released a new one on Winter & Winter).

Tristan Honsinger has been doing some insane things with cello as well.

Frances-Marie Uitti impressed me a lot on her heavy duo "Sonomondo" with Mark Dresser on Cryptogrammophon - they should have full tracks available for downloading on Crypto website.

Yes for Peggy Lee! Wanna hear her doing decorative work - go for Dave Douglas stuff. Somehting more creative - try "Western Front" with Carlos Zingaro on hatOLOGy recommended above, or her work on (her?) Spool label.

I actually would not recommend David Eyges - this is essentially bass-like plucking type of playing within a very limited blues-based framework. Enjoyable (and well-played, for sure), but not too creative or original, IMO.

Edited June 19, 2006 by Д.Д.

[Bright Moments]

Tom Cora - late NYC downtown cello innovator. Played some heavy fiery stuff. His compilation disc on Knitting Facotry (with many of the NYC downtown big names - Zirn, Frith, etc.) is essential.

Matt Turner is my favorite living cellist (and a very distinctive pianist as well). He has several outsntainding solo records on Meniscus ("The Mouse that Roared" it's called, I htink) and Fever Pitch.

Vincent Coutois, who's been mentioned above, has a beutiful intense solo on Enja MW from a couple of years ago - I would recommend it above his sideman works.

Joan Jeanrenaud from Kronos Quartet has engaged in several improv. projects with success. I would highly recommend her disc with Larry Ochs and Miya Masaoka called "Fly, Fly, Fly" (on Intakt).

Erik Friedlander's solo disc "Maldoror" mentioned by ubu is excellent (CD Baby site has a lot of samples), and is better than anything elese he's done (IMO).

Thomas Demenga has released some very intersting things on ECM, includign veryl iberal interpretations of Bach's cello sonatas.

Daniel Levin has a nice disc on Riti - it's in quartet (bass, vibes, cornet, cello).

Fred Lonberg-Holm is very active in very diverse projects. I really enjoyed his duo with Carlos Zingaro (violin) released on his own Flying Aspidistra label this year.

Ernst Reijseger menitoned by Nat is a improv. cello vetaran. I like his work in a long-standing trio with Georg Gräwe and Gerry Hemingway (they just released a new one on Winter & Winter).

Tristan Honsinger has been doing some insane things with cello as well.

Frances-Marie Uitti impressed me a lot on her heavy duo "Sonomondo" with Mark Dresser on Cryptogrammophon - they should have full tracks available for downloading on Crypto website.

Yes for Peggy Lee! Wanna hear her doing decorative work - go for Dave Douglas stuff. Somehting more creative - try "Western Front" with Carlos Zingaro on hatOLOGy recommended above, or her work on (her?) Spool label.

I actually would not recommend David Eyges - this is essentially bass-like plucking type of playing within a very limited blues-based framework. Enjoyable (and well-played, for sure), but not too creative or original, IMO.

thanks!!!!

[ep1str0phy]

Calo Scott. Not many appearances on record, but a player whose work merits close attention.

Gato Barbieri: IN SEARCH OF THE MYSTERY [ESP]

Wow--wasn't expecting that one. Great call.

[king ubu]

Anyone mentioned Paul Buckmaster yet? Virtuoso cellist and collaborator with Miles Davis for the 'On The Corner' session. Also arranged the strings for Bowie's 'Space Oddity' and had a major hand in the Chitinous Ensemble's rather way-out disk for Deram.

big for this one: