Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is a jazz bassist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. As a child, Swallow has studied piano and trumpet before switching to bass at the age of 14 years. While attending a school, began treating the improvisation of jazz. In 1960 he left Yale, where he studied composition, and moved to New York, playing both in 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 term association with Gary Burton various groups began. In early 1970, the Swallow can only play bass, he prefers the 5-string variety. Bob Cranshaw, Swallow was one of the first jazz bassists to do so (the encouragement of Roy Haynes, drummer preferred swallowing).
Sounds a choice (made of copper Hotlicks), and his style is intricate solos in the upper register, was one of the early stages of high-low C string Swallow In 1974-1976 he taught at Berklee College of Music. It is often assumed that seems to actual content, Book, which contains a relatively large number of his early compositions. Later, he recorded an album with the same name with the image passed, coffee-stained book cover Real. In 1978 Swallow became an integral and permanent member of the band of Carla Bley. He toured, John Scofield in the early 1980s, and returned to this collaboration several times over the years. Swallow had consistently won the Down Beat class low annual surveys, and the critics and readers, as the 80-half. His compositions have included, among others, Jim Hall (who recorded his first song down ), Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Stan Getz and Gary Burton.
In 1960 he left Yale, where he studied composition, and moved to New York, playing both in 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 term association with Gary Burton various groups began. In early 1970, the Swallow can only play bass, he prefers the 5-string variety. Bob Cranshaw, Swallow was one of the first jazz bassists to do so (the encouragement of Roy Haynes, drummer preferred swallowing).