after fifteen years of collaboration, the intimately powerful all-string chamber ensemble charts new territories of form and feel on its fourth album Outliers and celebrates its release in D.C.
Stephan Crump’s Rosetta Trio
Liberty Ellman - acoustic guitar
Jamie Fox - electric guitar
Stephan Crump - acoustic bass
“careful attention reveals the intricacies of its repertory and the calm intensity of its rapport” (The New York Times)
LP, CD, and digital available now on Papillon Sounds
Many discerning jazz listeners have come to know Stephan Crump from his twenty years of collaboration with Vijay Iyer, particularly his dynamic founding role in the trio that created Break Stuff, Accelerando, and the Grammy-nominated Historicity. He has worked for nearly as long with Liberty Ellman, notably on the Pi discs Tactiles, Ophiuchus Butterfly, and Radiate. Together with Jamie Fox, Crump performs and records with his wife, the radiant singer-songwriter Jen Chapin, most recently on Light of Mine (featuring Rosetta Trio), Reckoning, and the brand-new Desert or Sea....
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after fifteen years of collaboration, the intimately powerful all-string chamber ensemble charts new territories of form and feel on its fourth album Outliers and celebrates its release in D.C.
Stephan Crump’s Rosetta Trio
Liberty Ellman - acoustic guitar
Jamie Fox - electric guitar
Stephan Crump - acoustic bass
“careful attention reveals the intricacies of its repertory and the calm intensity of its rapport” (The New York Times)
LP, CD, and digital available now on Papillon Sounds
Many discerning jazz listeners have come to know Stephan Crump from his twenty years of collaboration with Vijay Iyer, particularly his dynamic founding role in the trio that created Break Stuff, Accelerando, and the Grammy-nominated Historicity. He has worked for nearly as long with Liberty Ellman, notably on the Pi discs Tactiles, Ophiuchus Butterfly, and Radiate. Together with Jamie Fox, Crump performs and records with his wife, the radiant singer-songwriter Jen Chapin, most recently on Light of Mine (featuring Rosetta Trio), Reckoning, and the brand-new Desert or Sea.
Since his arrival in New York twenty-five ago, Crump has found it both natural and essential to be part of multiple music scenes. A child of Memphis, he is strongly influenced by the blues, R&B, rock and soul music of his hometown but also inspired by the European classical traditions he began studying on piano as a child. Shunning barriers of genre, he has performed and recorded with a diverse range of musicians, from Portishead's Dave McDonald, The Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano, to Patti Austin, Jim Campilongo, Jorma Kaukonen, Lucy Kaplansky, Big Ass Truck, Sonny Fortune, and late blues legend Johnny Clyde Copeland. Currently, Crump can be heard as a longstanding member of Vijay Iyer Trio and Sextet, Jen Chapin Band, Ches Smith Trio, Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Liberty Ellman Sextet, Secret Keeper (with Mary Halvorson), as well as co-led groups with Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe, Eric McPherson, Mat Maneri, and Okkyung Lee.
Crump launched his solo performance career as an invited artist at the 2009 International Society of Bassists conference and has since released several recordings documenting his duo collaborations with alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, pianist James Carney, and guitarist Mary Halvorson. His Rhombal quartet, with Tyshawn Sorey, Ellery Eskelin, and Adam O’Farrill, recently released its eponymous debut.
Ellman and Fox were both fixtures on the San Francisco Bay area scene and had toured internationally before arriving in New York in the 90s. Aside from his own critically-acclaimed recording career, Ellman has been featured as guitarist and producer in Henry Threadgill’s innovative group, Zooid, and has performed with other jazz visionaries such as Steve Coleman, Greg Osby, and Myra Melford. An accomplished jazz composer in his own right, Fox brings his idiosyncratic folk, R&B and blues perspective that has contributed to the music of such legends as Joan Baez and Brother Jack McDuff.
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