Steve Cardenas (musician)
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Steve Cardenas is an American musician.[1]
While beginning his musical career in Kansas City, Steve has been an integral part of the jazz community in New York for seventeen years.
He has backed up such greats as Eddie Harris, Marilyn Maye, Jay McShann, Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Slide Hampton. He has toured Europe extensively, performing at various festivals including the North Sea and Montreux jazz festivals several times. Steve has regularly performed in groups led by such diverse artists as Paul McCandless of the group Oregon, drummer Joey Baron, trumpeters/composers Mark Isham and Jeff Beal, bassists Marc Johnson and John Patitucci, as well as vocalists Madeleine Peyroux and Norah Jones. Steve is currently a member of the Paul Motian Septet, Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, the Ben Allison Band and the Steve Swallow Quintet. In addition, he leads his own trio performing at various venues around New York City. As a band leader, Steve has three recordings, as well as extensive sideman appearances.
Along with performing and recording, Steve teaches at the New School in New York where he leads the Thelonious Monk Ensemble and gives private lessons. In the spring semesters of 2003 and 2010, he was guest faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. Steve has also been on the faculty at workshops abroad such as Stanford Jazz Workshop, Siena Jazz Summer Workshop, Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, Langnau Jazz Nights in Switzerland, Seda Jazz in Spain and Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Camps. Also, in collaboration with editor Don Sickler, Steve completed work on a book of Thelonious Monk's compositions through Hal Leonard Publishing. The Thelonious Monk Fakebook marks the premier publishing of all of Monk's compositions together, with many of them appearing for the first time.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] As leader
- West Of Middle - Sunnyside Records
- Panoramic - Fresh Sound New Talent Records
- Shebang - Fresh Sound New Talent Records
[edit] As sideman
- Action-Refraction - Ben Allison, Palmetto Records
- Milestone - Adam Cruz, Sunnyside Records
- Think Free - Ben Allison, Palmetto Records
- Orange - Jim Campilongo, Blue Hen Records
- Offering - Matt Marantz, (independent release)
- Quake - Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra, Sunnyside Records
- Little Things Run The World - Ben Allison & Man Size Safe, Palmetto Records
- No Way Out - David Brandom, Blujazz Records
- Song For Anyone - Chris Potter 10, Sunnyside Records
- Cowboy Justice - Ben Allison, Palmetto Records
- Music For An Imaginary Play - Sarah Wilson, Evander Music
- Slow New York - Richard Julian, Manhattan Records
- Give and Go - Donny McCaslin, Criss Cross Jazz
- Garden Of Eden - Paul Motian Band, ECM Records
- Not in Our Name - Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Verve Records
- Traveller - Arthur Kell Quartet, Fresh Sound New Talent Records
- Mercy Streets - Kate McGarry, Palmetto Records
- Visual - Alexis Cuadrado Sextet, Fresh Sound New Talent Records
- People Behave Like Ballads - Rebecca Martin, Maxjazz
- Home - David Brandom, (independent release)
- Holiday For Strings - The Paul Motian E.B.B.B., Winter & Winter Records
- Show Me - Kate McGarry, Palmetto Records
- Middlehope - Rebecca Martin, Fresh Sound New Talent Records
- Close Your Eyes And Listen - Mike Fahn, Sparky1 Productions
- Metro - Alexis Cuadrado, Fresh Sound New Talent Records
- Europe - The Paul Motian E.B.B.B., Winter & Winter Records
- See You In Zanzibar - Arthur Kell, (independent release)
- Killer Joey - Joey Baron, (independent release)
- Play Monk and Powell - The Paul Motian E.B.B.B., Winter & Winter Records
- Who Loves You: A Tribute To Jaco Pastorius - various artists, JVC Records
- Miles Remembered: The Silent Way Project - Mark Isham, Columbia Records
- From The Street - Tom Coster, JVC Records
- Raising The Standard - New York Guitar Trio, Midi Inc. Records
- Brandon Fields - Brandon Fields, Positive Music Records
- 10/10: Tribute to Thelonious Monk - Duo with pianist John Beasley, MMP Records
- Contemplations - Jeff Beal, Triloka Records
- The Last Romantics - Paul Hanson, Midi Inc. Records
- Three Graces - Jeff Beal, Triloka Records
- Premonition - Paul McCandless, Windham Hill Records
[edit] Television
- Sessions at West 54th Street - w/ Mark Isham & The Silent Way Project, 1999
[edit] References
- ^ Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2001). All music guide: the definitive guide to popular music. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 1313–. ISBN 9780879306274. http://books.google.com/books?id=xR7MdpuSlAEC&pg=PT1313. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
