Steve Cardenas (musician)

Steve Cardenas
Born (1959-02-05)February 5, 1959
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Guitar
Labels Fresh Sound, Sunnyside
Associated acts Paul Motian

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 several recordings as a leader featuring many of his own compositions.[2][3]

He has also worked with Mark Isham, Marc Johnson, Norah Jones, Paul McCandless, Maria Muldaur, John Patitucci, Madeleine Peyroux, and Jenny Scheinman.[2]

Cardenas is on faculty at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City.[3] He has previously been on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts,[2] 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

As sideman

With Jeff Beal

With Brandon Fields

With Paul Motian

With Rebecca Martin

With Ben Allison

With Jim Campilongo

With Charlie Haden

With David Brandom

With Kate McGarry

With others

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott (2013). The great jazz guitarists : the ultimate guide. San Francisco: Backbeat. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-61713-023-6.
  3. 1 2 Adler, David R. "Steve Cardenas | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Steve Cardenas | Album Discography | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  5. ↑ "Steve Cardenas | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 March 2017.

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