Steve Cardenas (musician)
Steve Cardenas is a guitarist who began his career in Kansas City, Missouri and has been part of the New York City jazz community since 1995.[1]
Cardenas was a longstanding member of the Paul Motian Electric Bebop Band (which later became the Paul Motian Octet), and Joey Baron's band, Killer Joey. He is a member of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Steve Swallow Quintet and the Ben Allison Band. He has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia, performing at international music festivals, theaters and clubs. He also leads his own trio and has released four recordings as a leader featuring many of his own compositions.
Cardenas is on faculty at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City. He has previously been on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, Siena Summer Jazz Workshop, Stanford Jazz Workshop and Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. Cardenas is co-author, with editor Don Sickler, of the Thelonious Monk Fakebook, released by Hal Leonard Publishing. The Thelonious Monk Fakebook marks the first time all of Monk's compositions have appeared in one volume, many of them appearing for the first time.
Discography
As leader
- Melody in a Dream – (Sunnyside)
- West of Middle – (Sunnyside)
- Panoramic – (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Shebang – (Fresh Sound New Talent)
As sideman
- The Stars Look Very Different Today – Ben Allison (Sonic Camera)
- Dream Dictionary – Jim Campilongo, (Blue Hen)
- Into the Woodwork – The Swallow Quintet, (XtraWATT/ECM)
- I Thought About You – Eliane Elias, (Concord)
- I Never Meta Guitar Too – various artists, (Clean Feed)
- My Place – Monika Borzym, (Sony Music)
- Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – Anthony Wilson, (Goat Hill)
- Action-Refraction – Ben Allison, (Palmetto)
- Milestone – Adam Cruz, (Sunnyside)
- Think Free – Ben Allison, (Palmetto)
- Orange – Jim Campilongo, (Blue Hen)
- Offering – Matt Marantz (independent release)
- Quake – Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra, (Sunnyside)
- Little Things Run the World – Ben Allison & Man Size Safe, (Palmetto)
- No Way Out – David Brandom, (Blujazz)
- Song for Anyone – Chris Potter (Sunnyside)
- Cowboy Justice – Ben Allison, (Palmetto)
- Music for an Imaginary Play – Sarah Wilson, (Evander)
- Slow New York – Richard Julian, (Manhattan)
- Give and Go – Donny McCaslin, Criss Cross
- Garden of Eden – Paul Motian Band (ECM)
- Not in Our Name – Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, (Verve)
- Traveller – Arthur Kell Quartet, (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Mercy Streets – Kate McGarry, (Palmetto)
- Visual – Alexis Cuadrado Sextet, (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- People Behave Like Ballads – Rebecca Martin, (Maxjazz)
- Home – David Brandom (independent release)
- Holiday for Strings – The Paul Motian E.B.B.B., (Winter & Winter)
- Show Me – Kate McGarry, (Palmetto)
- Middlehope – Rebecca Martin, (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Close Your Eyes and Listen – Mike Fahn, (Sparky1)
- Metro – Alexis Cuadrado, (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Europe – The Paul Motian E.B.B.B., (Winter & Winter)
- 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)
- Who Loves You: A Tribute to Jaco Pastorius – various artists, (JVC)
- Miles Remembered: The Silent Way Project – Mark Isham (Columbia)
- From the Street – Tom Coster, (JVC)
- Raising the Standard – New York Guitar Trio (Midi)
- Brandon Fields – Brandon Fields, (Positive Music)
- 10/10: Tribute to Thelonious Monk – Duo with pianist John Beasley (MMP)
- Contemplations – Jeff Beal, (Triloka)
- The Last Romantics – Paul Hanson, (Midi)
- Three Graces – Jeff Beal, (Triloka)
- Premonition – Paul McCandless, (Windham Hill)
Television
- Sessions at West 54th Street – w/Mark Isham & The Silent Way Project, 1999
References
- ↑ Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2001). All music guide: the definitive guide to popular music. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 1313–. ISBN 978-0-87930-627-4. Retrieved 26 September 2011.