Roswell Rudd and Badma-Khanda
The Mongolian Buryat Band
Sunday, November 12 • 2pm
Florence Gould Theatre, Legion of Honor
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$25 GA
"Rudd extracts sounds from the trombone that go back
to New Orleans and further ahead than anyone has yet reached."
Nat Hentoff in Cosmopolitan
Program Notes
For years, Roswell Rudd was best known as the trombonist of
choice for avant-garde luminaries Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp,
Steve Lacy, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra,
and his own New York Art Quartet. But Rudd’s musical résumé also
features a fascinating mix of Dixieland jazz, straight ahead
playing and, more recently, world music.
His introduction to music
came at the hands of his father, an amateur drummer. Though Rudd’s first instrument was the
French horn, he gravitated to the trombone due to a growing affinity
for jazz. It proved to be a wise decision for this three time
(2003-2005) Jazz Journalists Association “Trombonist of
the Year” and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in composition.
His latest project builds on the success of his infectious 2003
release MALIcool, on which he explored the shared musical
roots of America and Mali with master kora (a harp-like
instrument) player Toumani Diabate. Rudd’s globetrotting
took him next to Mongolia, where he encountered the traditional
Buryat musicians featured on his newest album, Blue Mongol.
Featuring a mix of traditional Mongolian tunes and Rudd originals,
the album—and this afternoon’s performance—features
throat singing, horse head fiddles, Rudd’s boisterous trombone,
the flute-like limbe and the exquisite vocals of Badma
Khanda. The New York Times noted, “Rudd and the
Mongolian Buryat Band have pioneered an altogether new form of
music without label, genre, or category.”
Personnel:
- Roswell Rudd, trombone
- Badma Khanda,vocals
- Battuvshin Baldantseren, throat singer/ flute/bass
- Javkhlan Erdenebal, horse hair fiddle
- Jamiyan Urantugs, zither
- Sayana Tabkharova, dulcime
