Steve Swallow

Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940), a jazz bassist and composer in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, is born. As a child, Swallow has studied piano and trumpet before switching to bass at age 14. While he was a preparatory school, he began to try to jazz improvisations. In 1960 he went to Yale, where he studied composition, and moved to New York, played at the time the trio of Jimmy Giuffre with Paul Bley. Since joining Art Farmer’s quartet in 1964, Swallow began to write. It was in the 1960s that his long collaboration with Gary Burton various groups began. In the 1970s, only Swallow bass guitar, which amended the five-string varieties are preferred. was Bob Cranshaw, Swallow one of the first jazz musician to do this (the promotion of Roy Haynes, drummer preferred to swallow).

He plays with a tip (copper by Hotlicks), and his style is complex solos in the upper register, one of the  early adopters  of a high C-string bass. In 1974-76, the Swallow classes at Berklee College of Music. It is often assumed that had an influence on the content of the book Real, which includes a number of his early compositions. Later, he recorded an album of the same name, the image of a book brought real coffee on the cover in color. In 1978 Swallow essential and constant member of the Carla Bley Band. He has traveled extensively with John Scofield in the 1980s and referred to this collaboration several times in recent years. Swallow is always the bass content of the category downbeat annual surveys, both critical  and  reader, won the mid-80s. His compositions have been covered, including Jim Hall (their first song,  Quilt ), Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Stan Getz and Gary Burton.

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