Name: Essakane/full bonus track (Swell) by Steve Swell
Duration: 7 min 24 s
Description: This track is from a live concert in Coimbra, Portugal inspired the by the village of Essakane, Mali where I performed in 2004. The trombone solo exhibits a free approach to improvising over a recognizable afro-beat. There is free improvised duet of trumpet and tenor after this.

Mark Whitecage, alto saxophone; David Bindman, tenor saxophone; Sam Furnace, baritone saxophone; Steve Swell, trombone; Michael J. Stevens, piano; Joe Fonda, bass; Kevin Norton, drums

Recorded June 29, 1995, The Knitting Factory, NYC

(photo, above right: Scott D. Miller)

Scott D. Miller is a New York City-based composer and Artistic Director of the Tilted Head Ensemble, which he founded in 2016. Miller has written extensively for various classical ensembles and has long explored diverse genres. He has composed musique concrète, electroacoustic music, experimental jazz, structured improvisation and works in collaboration with poets, dramatists and visual artists.
 
Miller's works have been performed at MISE-EN, La MaMa, Symphony Space, The Knitting Factory, Roulette, CBGB, P.S. 122, Lincoln Center Library, The DiMenna Center and many other venues. His music has been premiered by Miranda Cuckson, Blair McMillen, Ryan Muncy, Eric Huebner, Fred Ho and other notable performers.
 
Miller studied composition with Milton Babbitt and Paul Lansky, as well as clarinet with David Krakauer. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Miller also earned an MFA in composition from Princeton University and an MA in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

He has received numerous awards and grants including ASCAP, NJSCA, Meet the Composer and the New York Composers Circle Award.
 
Starting in 1989, Miller founded and directed the Inner Ear Music Series at the Brecht Forum and at Greenwich House in New York City, producing over seventy concerts of new music by many prominent experimental composers and improvisers.

Copyright © 1994 Scott D. Miller (BMI)
www.sdmillermusic.com
www.tiltedheadmusic.org

YouTube video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQq-4q3P1rI

Spencer Lane Extension (1994)

Soul Travelers, Jemeel Moondoc, alto saxophone; Dave Burrell, piano; William Parker, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums; Steve Swell, trombone, composition. Released on the RogueArt Label (France) in 2016.

Soul Travelers

This track is from a live concert in Coimbra, Portugal inspired the by the village of Essakane, Mali where I performed in 2004. The trombone solo exhibits a free approach to improvising over a recognizable afro-beat. There is free improvised duet of trumpet and tenor after this.

Essakane/full bonus track (Swell)

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