Roswell Rudd

"I just want to invoke the meaningful sounds to give acoustical pleasure to people who listen."
Roswell Rudd

"Take any opportunity that presents itself to hear Roswell Rudd
The Village Voice     Shortlist     May 12,     2004

"Rudd is one of the more distinctive and adventurous modern jazz trombonists, a player who has managed to return to jazz's primordial roots while remaining entirely current."
Larry Blumenfeld         JAZZIS             May     2003

"...Rudd, the incomparable trombonist, is one of the great tonic sounds to emerge from '60's jazz - still mighty, still gleeful."
Gary Giddins, Village Voice Jan 8, 2002

"...a trombonist of such sweeping power and majesty that he transcends all styles."
John Wilson, The New York Times

"Rudd gets     more trombone out of his instrument than any colleague, past or present."
Whitney Balliet, New Yorker Magazine

"The key transitional figure of the '60's was Rudd...in his own masterful album, Everywhere, he demonstrates a revitalization of expressive     techniques and dynamic sensitivity."
Gary Giddins, Village Voice

"Rudd extracts sounds from the trombone that go back to New Orleans and further ahead than anyone has yet reached."
Nat Hentoff, Cosmopolitan

"Rudd is a character playing a trombone, one of those unique performers who play their personality as well as their instruments.
Mike Zwerin, International Herald Tribune

"Roswell Rudd is certainly one of the most imaginative trombone players since J.J. Johnson. His trombone style recalls the more expressionist methods of an earlier age while remaining aware of the technical sophistry of the few boppers who had taken to the horn. Rudd is a masterly soloist.
Duck Baker

"Rudd is the most original and accomplished trombonist     in the jazz world today as well as a very important composer, arranger, teacher, and musicologist."
Steve Lacy

"The evening's great trick of substantiation was pulled off by Roswell Rudd who performed with SONIC YOUTH.... He placed shouting New Orleans-funeral style trombone improvisations over a rock and roll drone and it worked, then he hollered fragments of the song's lyrics, stretching out words. He looked like something between a country doctor and Moses."
Ben     Ratliff,     The New York Times

"Au chapitre des prestations individuelles, le veteran tromboniste Roswell Rudd gagne haut la main pour des solos inspires et puissants"
Improjazz     NOVEMBRE 2004

"On his hunt for tone through the valveless infinite, the man has blown his mind wide open from spontaneous spaces of the soul. Roswell is a one-man party, if not a one-man band."
Kitty Montgomery, Daily Freeman     May 2004

"You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos."
Roswell Rudd



New Tunes From Rudd's 'Trombone Tribe'
By Kevin Whitehead     on NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102907913


Review by Michael G. Nastos
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:djfixzukldae


Trombone Tribe

By Raul d'Gama Rose
all about jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32682


Roswell Rudd's "TROMBONE TRIBE" a must for jazz fans

"Rudd is ringleader on this celebration of the trombone and his playing has depth and weight, and his technique outstanding. A must-have for all jazz (and bone) fans."
Daily Freeman, Preview, Friday June 5, 2009

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BONE FREE - Roswell Rudd     by Peter Aaron     June 29, 2009

http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2009/7/Music/Bone-Free



QUOTES FOR THE QUARTET:

Roswell Rudd Quartet - Selected Press


"Rudd's current quartet, featuring Korean vocalist Sunny Kim, probably represents the most accessible, swing-based music of his career. Some of their best originals, including "Whatever Turns You On" and "I'm Going Sane" penned by Rudd and producer Verna Gillis respectively, have a quirky vibe that brings to mind some of Mose Allison's greatest hits."
http://jbspins.blogspot.com/     November 1, 2008

"he's a one-man chorus on this set of his vigorous songs from a deep 40-year songbook. Rudd placed the country's recent doleful doom-boom in perspective with such original music in uproarious, life-affirming performances. To witness, even overhear, transcendent music such as this may well contribute to cures for what ails us, individually and collectively, short-term or bone-deep."
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31859
Fred Bouchard

"Rudd still presents a striking figure with a shock of thick white hair on his head and a vandyck to go along with expressive eyes that further sell the passion obvious in his playing. After all these years, he still has a great sense of humor and his playing remains intriguing and of the moment. Their varied set was a fresh mix of jazz history, politics and world-influenced music."
Ken Weiss     October 30, 2008