Concert: Solos & Duos Series - Roswell Rudd/Mark Dresser Duo
The Solos & Duos Series, produced by the Fine Arts Center, continues its sixth season with a rare concert by The Roswell Rudd/Mark Dresser Duo.
Best known as trombonist of choice for avant-garde luminaries like Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, and his own New York Art Quartet, Rudd’s musical résumé also features a fascinating mix of Dixieland, straight ahead jazz and, more recently, world music. His lifelong friendship with Steve Lacy has resulted in numerous recordings and performances of the music of Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols. His recent recorded cross-cultural collaborations include, MALIcool, (with Toumani Diabaté), Blue Mongol, (with a traditional Buryat group from Mongolia) and El Espiritu Jibaro (with Yomo Toro). The New York Times calls Rudd, "...a trombonist of such sweeping power and majesty that he transcends all styles."
Mark Dresser has been composing and performing solo contrabass and ensemble music professionally since 1972 throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. Emerging from the L.A. "free" jazz scene of the early 70s, Dresser performed with the "Black Music Infinity", led by Stanley Crouch, and included Bobby Bradford, Arthur Blythe, David Murray, and James Newton. Concurrently he was performing with the San Diego Symphony. After completing B.A. and M.A. degrees at UC, San Diego where he studied with contrabass virtuoso Bertram Turetzky and a 1983 Fulbright Fellowship in Italy with maestro Franco Petracchi, Dresser relocated to New York in 1986 after being invited to join the quartet of composer/saxophonist, Anthony Braxton. Dresser played with Braxton's longest performing quartet for nine years. Once in NY, Dresser began working with a wide variety of musicians including Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Anthony Davis, Fred Frith, Dave Douglas, John Zorn, and others. He is a professor at UCSD.
