Roswell Rudd

[cliffpeterson]

I just wanted to share something. I heard roswell rudd and his band "Shout" yesterday at the lake george jazz festival. Afterwards I asked him to sign a few cd booklets I had. Two of the three booklets were dates with steve lacy-one live and one studio. Looking at the booklets, roswell signaled his preference for the live date. He stated that he prefered the live date because he specialized in "beautiful flaws." A short time later, he amended the phrase to "gorgeous flaws." Didn't sound like a pat line that he had used before.

[AllenLowe]

smart fellow, Ros - genius musician, great guy -

[AndrewHill]

Yeah, graduate of the Yale school of music, iirc. Everywhere and his work w/ Shepp is magnificent for starters + that album that he cut for a certain Allen Lowe on Enja is pretty good too

[clifford_thornton]

I just wanted to share something. I heard roswell rudd and his band "Shout" yesterday at the lake george jazz festival. Afterwards I asked him to sign a few cd booklets I had. Two of the three booklets were dates with steve lacy-one live and one studio. Looking at the booklets, roswell signaled his preference for the live date. He stated that he prefered the live date because he specialized in "beautiful flaws." A short time later, he amended the phrase to "gorgeous flaws." Didn't sound like a pat line that he had used before.

If you're referring to the Cuneiform set, I second that emotion... a truly bitchin' pair of discs!

[AllenLowe]

thanks, but even better, I will add, is his playing on a thing we recorded called American SOng Project - we did tunes based on Tea for Two and Body and Soul; also did Dizzy Atmosphere - Ros was beyond belief -

[freejazz2020]

Truly one of the most amazing people I have ever had the pleasure to meet.

My wife and I had the absolute pleasure of presenting Roswell twice in the late 90s at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Chicago. The first time in his "two-bone" trio w/ Steve Swell and Lou Grassi on percussion. Ros was amazing- two of the most incredible sets of music - he even played piano and sang on one number. Everyone sat transfixed (and having a blast) for nearly three hours.

The even greater pleasure was getting to know him just a bit ... his stories included philosophy, ethnomusicology (is it true that he worked with Lomax, Allen?), art and more. Some funny stories came out of the experience too.

We were able to bring him back to do a solo set and a duo set with Burton Greene. I was disappointled only that I could never work it out so that I could get Steve Lacy w/ Roswell together to record at Unity (Steve did a solo performance that was released as, "Solo: Live at Unity Temple" on Mac McCaughan's Wobbly Rail label.)

Edited September 15, 2008 by freejazz2020

[AndrewHill]

Truly one of the most amazing people I have even had the pleasure to meet.

My wife and I had the incredible pleasure presenting Roswell twice in the late 90s at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Chicago. The first time in his "two-bone" trio w/ Steve Swell and Lou Grassi on percussion. Ros was amazing- two of the most incredible sets of music - he even played piano and sang on one number. Everyone sat transfixed (and having a blast) for nearly three hours.

The even greater pleasure was getting to know him just a bit ... his stories included philosophy, ethnomusicology (is it true that he worked with Lomax, Allen?), art and more. Some funny stories came out of the experience too.

We were able to bring him back to do a solo set and a duo set with Burton Greene. I was disappointled only that I could never work it out so that I could get Steve Lacy w/ Roswell together to record at Unity (Steve did a solo performance that was released as, "Solo: Live at Unity Temple" on Mac McCaughan's Wobbly Rail label.)

Cool! Thanks for sharing FreeJazz!

[AllenLowe]

yes, he worked for Alan Lomax for quite a few years; as a matter of fact I once went to see Ros at Lomax's office, which as I recall was in a real bad neighborhood (8th avenue, maybe) near one of the Tunnels - there was a drug deal going on outside the door. I met Lomax only briefly, but that was ROs's bread and butter for some time -

Edited September 15, 2008 by AllenLowe

[paul secor]

Mr. Rudd wrote an article in down beat in the early 70's (I believe) on ethnic musics and working with Alan Lomax.