All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Finally out two amazing recordings on Auand Records: {{Steve Swallow = 4747}} / Ohad Talmor / {{Adam Nussbaum = 9930}} - Playing in Traffic (AU9019) {{Bobby Previte = 10421}} featuring {{Gianluca Petrella = 16493}}, Wolfgang Puschnig, Benoit Delbecq, Niels Davidsen - Pan Atlantic (AU9020)...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating Steve Swallow's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Steve SwallowSteve Swallow was born in New York City in 1940, and spent his childhood in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Before turning to the acoustic bass at age 14, he studied piano (with Howard Kasschau, who also taught Nelson Riddle) and trumpet... more...
The Hobson and Porter Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
H&P has gone top of the Monster Munch Trophy for the first time after a string of impressive results against teams including Wyke College and Neville Tuckers. Our team includes the following players who are rumoured to be Rafa targets: James McGee(GK) Chris Thompson(DEF) Steve Swallow(DEF) James Thompson(DEF) Louis Bradley(MID) Paul Swallow(MID) Mark Swallow(MID) Mark...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... - Carla Bley & Lost Chords - I have always enjoyed seeing Carla play, and I love her trio with Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard. It'll be interesting to see what adding a drummer to the mix does - Branford Marsalis , just because he can be such fun -I'm also going to see Tomasz Stanko . -I failed to get tickets to see Sonny Rollins , who was so well reviewed last year - but I'll...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Art Farmer , Live in '64 (Jazz Icons). Farmer's quartet with guitarist Jim Hall was one of the greatest small groups in jazz history. For this television appearance, he featured pieces never released in the quartet's recordings. Among them are an exhilarating "Bilbao Song," Sonny Rollins's "Valse Hot" and Cole Porter's "So in Love." Steve Swallow is the bassist, Pete LaRoca the drummer....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... clarinetist created another trio to play a different kind of music. Pianist Paul Bley and bassist Steve Swallow moved with Guiffre into what is best described as “free chamber jazz", a quiet yet quite experimental music 180 degrees apart from his earlier music.Giuffre experimented with electronic sounds in the 1970s and 80s as well as adding bass flute and soprano sax to his own palette....
