Jeremy Steig

Jeremy Steig
Born	September 23, 1942 (1942-09-23)
Origin	Greenwich Village, New York
Genres	Jazz Jazz-rock
Instruments	Flute
Years active	1963–present

Jeremy Steig (born September 23, 1942) is an American jazz flutist.

Biography

Steig is the son of New Yorker cartoonist William Steig,

At age 19 Steig was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed on one side. For some years afterward, he played the flute with the help of a special mouthpiece.

After a start in mainstream jazz, with albums with Bill Evans and Denny Zeitlin, Steig became an early force in the jazz-rock fusion experiments of the late 1960s and early 70s, including the short lived band Jeremy and the Satyrs, featuring Warren Bernhardt, Eddie Gomez and Adrian Guillary. Steig's album Energy, later re-released with additional material under different titles, featured keyboard player Jan Hammer and bassist Eddie Gomez, and was recorded at Electric Lady Studios under the hand of sometime Jimi Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer. Additionally, Steig played flute on the seminal Peter Walker record "Rainy Day Raga", providing an atmospheric color essential to the records fusion of Eastern Indian and Americana Folk traditions.

Steig addressed the tonal color restrictions of the instrument by the use of "modern" acoustic techniques (voice multiphonics and overtones similar to Rahsaan Roland Kirk, key percussion) electronic effects, and by using the entire battery of flute-family instruments, from piccolo to bass flute (including the obscure Sousa-era alto piccolo), often over-dubbed and multi-tracked together.

His song "Howlin' For Judy" from his 1970 album Legwork is the main source of the sample on the 1994 Beastie Boys' single "Sure Shot".

Steig performs the role of "The Pied Pipe," exclusively on flute, in the film Shrek Forever After, based on the character created by his father.

Discography

• 1963: Flute Fever (Columbia)
• 1968: Jeremy & The Satyrs (Reprise)
• 1969: Legwork (Solid State)
• 1969: This Is Jeremy Steig (Solid State)
• 1969: What’s New (with Bill Evans Trio - Verve)
• 1969: Jazz Wave Ltd, On Tour (Blue Note)
• 1970: Wayfaring Stranger (Blue Note)
• 1970: Energy (Capitol) re-released wholly or partially on CD, with different combinations of extra tracks, as Fusion and Something Else
• 1972: Fusion (Something Else) (Groove)
• 1974: Flute Summit (with James Moody, Sahib Shihab, Chris Hinze - Atlantic)
• 1974: Monium (Columbia)
• 1975: Temple of Birth (Columbia)
• 1976: Leaving Trio
• 1976: Outlaws (live) (Enja)
• 1977: Firefly (CTI Records)
• 1978: Lend Me Your Ears (CMP)
• 1978: Music for Flute & Double-Bass (with Eddie Gomez, CMP)
• 1980: Rain Forest (CMP)
• 1992: Jigsaw Joe (Triloka)
• 2002: What's New at F
• 2003: JAM
• 2004: IMPROVISED
• 2005: Flute On The Edge
• 2007: Pterodactyl
• 2008: Howlin' for Judy (Blue Note) compilation of Blue Note albums; Legwork & Wayfaring Stranger

As sideman

With Art Farmer

• Crawl Space (CTI, 1977)

With Urbie Green

• The Fox (CTI, 1976)

With Lalo Schifrin

• Towering Toccata (CTI, 1976)

External links

• Jeremy Steig at the Internet Movie Database
• Discogs entry