• ROSWELL RUDD's TROMBONE TRIBE with Steve Swell, Deborah Weisz, Bob Stewart, Ken Filiano and Barry Altschul
• 6:30pm Seating / 8:00pm Show

ROSWELL RUDD, aka THE INCREDIBLE HONK! - will celebrate his 75th birthday at the City Winery on November 20th with his TROMBONE TRIBE which features Steve Swell and Deborah Weisz on trombones; Bob Stewart on tuba; Ken Filiano on bass; and Barry Altschul on drums.

Join us for a joyous and swinging night featuring Rudd's compositions amd arrangements.

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Special guests will also join Rudd for this birthday celebration, including Duck Baker, Delfayo Marsalis, Ray Anderson, Josh Roseman, Sam Burtis, David Oquendo, Lafayette Harris and Ivan Rubenstein-Gillis. Grammy Award-winning violinist Michael Doucet will also perform.

Rudd, who was voted Most Likely to Succeed by the Downbeat Critics Poll in 1964,  and 46 years later in 2010 was voted # 1 TROMBONIST in the Downbeat's Critics Poll, and for the 5th time won TROMBONIST OF THE YEAR from the Jazz Journalists Association, will guide the audience on a sonic adventure to remember.

Paper mache mask in photo by Didier Civil. Photo by Kathy Brew

ABOUT ROSWELL RUDD

ROSWELL RUDD (trombone), is proudly of the tradition that has given us such jazz trombone greats as Jack Teagarden, Kid Ory, J.J. Johnson, and Joseph Nanton.  One of the most imaginative and stimulating players, Rudd is known for his work with groundbreaking groups and musicians like Herbie Nichols, the NEW YORK ART QUARTET, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Carla Bley, and Steve Lacy.

His trailblazing on the trombone has influenced an entire generation of trombonists who hear his extroverted gut bucket stylings as the modern incarnation of the New Orleans style. He has equally a passionate lyricism in the tradition of American folk songs and ballads.

Rudd has received international recognition as a performer, and for his compositions and arrangements ranging from large scale music dramas to instrumental jazz suites.  His jazz operas BLUES FOR PLANET EARTH and GOLD RUSH have achieved cult status from their performances in the 1960’s.

His solo recordings include the well known EVERYWHERE , Rudd’s Sextet (1966 - Impulse), which was re-released in 1998 by Impulse and included the Cecil Taylor Unit in which Rudd performs as well;  FLEXIBLE FLYER, (1973 and 1998 Arista Freedom ), and REGENERATION (1982 and 1998 - SOUL NOTE) . He has been a featured soloist on numerous other recordings  and  in 1999 the  Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet recorded MONK'S DREAM which was released on Universal/Verve.

2009, RUDD’S TROMBONE TRIBE, on Sunnyside, leapt into the world to rave reviews. He realized this project with a grant from the NYS Music Fund, which had an educational component that brought him to the local high school. They performed music Rudd wrote for them under his supervision.

In February 2009, he was a guest on Prairie Home Companion with Michael Doucet and Beau Soleil. Rudd conducts Master Classes and Workshops both here and abroad including Harvard, Manhattan School of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, and Berklee School of Music. In 2004 he brought his TROMBONE TRIBE to perform at the 4th Festival in the Desert in Essakane, Timbuctou, Mali.

He tours regularly with his new Quartet, and his TROMBONE TRIBE. Rudd is a featured guest around the world.

Rudd is  one of the  giants. His active playing force is to be greatly welcomed, with his larger-than-life individualism.