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Steve Swell

Steve Swell, Arts for Art - Vision Festival 2024. Photo by Marek Lazarski
Photo: Marek Lazarski · CC BY-SA 4.0

About the artist

Steve Swell, born in Newark, NJ has been an active member of the New York music community since 1975. He has toured and performed with such diverse jazz personalities as mainstreamers Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich to so called outsiders Anthony Braxton, William Parker and Jemeel Moondoc. He has recorded 25 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artist on more than 80 other releases.

Top songs

  1. Attack of the Mikrokosmos
  2. Remember Now
  3. Improv / Box Set
  4. Every Edge of Every Fold
  5. Nasty Butter
  6. A Distortion That Becomes Beauty
  7. Journey to Omphalos
  8. Cosmic Passage
  9. Out of the Box
  10. Open That Other Can of Worms
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  1. Welcome to the Dancing Notes
  2. Sometimes The Air Is
  3. Ardent Disruptor
  4. A Worthy Fragmentary Condition
  5. Healix
  6. Persistent Sunrises
  7. Patient Explorer / For Frank Lowe
  8. News from the Mystic Auricle
  9. Not Necessarily This, Not That
  10. For Grachen
  11. Juxtsuppose
  12. Texture #2
  13. Planet Dream
  14. Airtight
  15. #2 of Nine
  16. And Then They Wept
  17. For Oumou, With Love
  18. Roswellian Folk Song
  19. For Will Connell Jr.
  20. City Life
  21. After Sq4
  22. Bartók Screams
  23. Spontaneous Protocols
  24. Antlers
  25. Aquarela do Brasil
  26. Sextet For The End of Democracy
  27. Essakane
  28. MB-1 (for Marion Brown)
  29. Hope
  30. Opening
  31. Shaky’s Blues
  32. Splitting Up Is Hard to Do
  33. Celestial Navigation
  34. Not Their Kind
  35. Lent-Oh!
  36. Ultima
  37. Vautour Fauve
  38. Patient Explorer
  39. We Interrupt This Channel
  40. Exit the Labyrinth
  41. Stride Right
  42. Joy and the Remarkable Behavior of Time
  43. Different Degrees
  44. Not Necessarily This, Nor That
  45. The Center Will Hold
  46. Sketch 1
  47. Schemata and Heuristics for Four Clarinets
  48. Where Are the Heartfelt?
  49. Sketch 2
  50. Composite #8
  51. Scraping For Walter Weirbos
  52. Rubber Glove
  53. Pocket Trumpet
  54. Wildflowers Grow Along This Highway Too
  55. Nicht ohne Wasser: Nicht Ohne Wasser: IV. — - Steve Swell
  56. Spasticity
  57. Chat and Clack
  58. My Myth of Perfection
  59. Touchin' on Trane: Part E - Steve Swell
  60. Insomia - Steve Swell
  61. Live at the Hideout #1
  62. Live at the Hideout #2
  63. The Darkness Afoot
  64. Noise Like Wings - Steve Swell
  65. Banished - Steve Swell
  66. Dazed and Amused
  67. Live at the Hideout #3
  68. The Only Way Out
  69. Bird Food (arr. D. Liebman) - Steve Swell
  70. Zu Hause - Steve Swell
  71. Unisphere - Steve Swell
  72. Grow Your Own - USJSJ0700414
  73. box set
  74. Dem Dt. Jazz - Steve Swell
  75. News from the Upper West Sid
  76. Dragonfly Breath: Live at Zebulon
  77. More Hello - Steve Swell
  78. Schwester Ingrid Diagnostiziert am Tage - Steve Swell
  79. Giving Thanks Once Again
  80. Family Affairs: Privat 7 - Steve Swell
  81. Sailing Home
  82. Calling All Travelers
  83. BA-1
  84. slammin' the infinite
  85. Painless Dentistry No. 2 - Steve Swell
  86. Groove Merchants of Redwood
  87. With The Morning, Hope
  88. Laugh So You Don’t Cry
  89. Outside Inn
  90. News from the Upper West Side

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