Trey Gunn

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Trey Gunn

Background information
Born December 13, 1960 (1960-12-13) (age 47)
Genre(s) Progressive Rock, World Music
Occupation(s) Musician
Instrument(s) Warr guitar
Years active 1992 -
Associated acts King Crimson
The Trey Gunn Band
Quodia
TU
KTU
UKZ
Notable instrument(s)
Warr guitar

Trey Gunn (born December 13, 1960) is an American musician and an alumnus of the band King Crimson. He played with them from 1994 to 2003.

A native Texan who now resides in Seattle, Washington, Gunn began his musical life at the age of seven playing classical piano. His interest in music grew through various instruments: electric bass, electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, and the touch guitar. He moved to Eugene, Oregon and played in punk bands while he completed a degree in classical music composition at the University of Oregon.[1] He then moved to New York City where his professional life began.

In 1992, he was asked to join David Sylvian and Robert Fripp in a collaborative project that toured throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. The band released The First Day and Damage—a live recording from the Royal Albert Hall in London. During this period Gunn also recorded his first solo album One Thousand Years.

In 1994, Gunn joined King Crimson. With King Crimson he played Chapman Stick and subsequently diverse types of Warr guitar and was part of the "double trio" formation opposite Tony Levin. In 1997 King Crimson fragmented into smaller configurations known as the ProjeKCts—Gunn, along with Fripp, participated in all of the ProjeKCts performances and recordings. In 1999 the group mutated into a four piece—Belew, Fripp, Gunn and Mastelotto. He left Crimson after "The Power to Believe" tour in 2003. Over the course of his decade with the group he participated in thirty-three King Crimson CDs, two DVDs and hundreds of performances.

He has also performed and recorded with a number of other musicians: TOOL, Puscifer, Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Vernon Reid, John Paul Jones, Eric Johnson, Italian singer Alice, Azam Ali, Matt Chamberlain, Michael Brook, Bill Rieflin, David Hykes of the Harmonic Choir and many more. He has released a number of solo albums, as Trey Gunn and as the leader of The Trey Gunn Band.

In 2003 Gunn founded the multi-media group Quodia with Joe Mendelson. In 2004 he and Pat Mastelotto started collaborating with Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, forming KTU out of their respective duos TU and Kluster. In 2007, he began working with Eddie Jobson in the group UKZ.

In addition to helping run a collective music label based in Seattle called First World (FWD) and a multi-media production company (7 Directions), he is currently dividing his time between his solo work, film and television scoring, music supervising, and building multi-dimensional media projects.

Contents

[edit] Discography

[edit] Solo albums

  • One Thousand Years (1993)
  • The Third Star (1996)
  • Raw Power (1999)
  • The Joy of Molybdenum (2000)
  • Live Encounter (2001)
  • Road Journals (CD-ROM) (2002)
  • Untune The Sky (CD/DVD) (2003)

[edit] With King Crimson (selected discography)

[edit] With others

[edit] References

  1. ^ Trey Gunn homepage.
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