David Tronzo

David Tronzo (born 1957 in Rochester, New York) is an American guitarist, best known^[1][2][3] for his innovation of pairing the techniques of electric slide guitar to the genres of bebop, modern jazz, rock, downtown music and experimental music. He has recorded with former David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels,^[4] Wayne Horvitz^[5] David Sanborn^[6] and The Lounge Lizards.^[7]

Biography

Early life

David Tronzo was drawn to music at age eleven and decided on guitar by age thirteen and taught himself. By age fifteen he was playing gigs. "I was playing five nights a week, though I really just had three good notes and five good chords."^[8]

Current career

He is an Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music^[8] Among is more known stuents is guitarist Dani Rabin of Marbin.

He appeared in the movie Talking Guitars as himself in 2007.

Albums

with the Tronzo Trio

1994 Roots

1996 Yo! Hey!

with David Tronzo and Reeves Gabrels

1995 Night in Amnesia

with Tronzo, Granelli and Epstein

1999 crunch

with Giacomo Merega, David Tronzo, and Noah Kaplan

2008 The Light and Other Things

Soundtracks

1993 Short Cuts

1997 Excess Baggage

Awards and honours

Year	Award / Recognition
1993	Voted one of the Top 100 Guitarists of the 20th Century in Musician's Magazine Press Poll
1994	Voted one of the Top Ten Jazz Guitarists by Musician magazine
1995	Voted second in its 1995 poll for Best Experimental Guitarist by Guitar Player magazine
1997	Voted one of the Dirty Thirty Pioneers and Trailblazers by Guitar Player magazine

References

1. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/16/arts/review-jazz-david-tronzo-and-guitar.html
2. ^ http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/open0202_05.htm
3. ^ New Yorker Magazine (August 1994) http://www.jnovohradsky.com/kinds/html/tronzo.html
4. ^ http://www.rounderstore.com/product.asp?P=1167180182
5. ^ http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/horvitz.htm
6. ^ http://riad.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/dejohnette/another.txt
7. ^ http://www.strangeandbeautiful.com/goods/music/queen/index.html
8. ^ ^{a b} http://www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail/david-tronzo

External links

• Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians - entry on David Tronzo
• Laurence Donohue-Green's Open Ears column
• All About Jazz September 2008, No. 77 - contains Karla Cornejo's review of the album The Light and Other Things
• All About Jazz March 2008 - Phil DiPietro's review of The Light and Other Things

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