ALBUMUnited In Swing - Wycliffe Gordon with the B# Big BandB# Big Band & Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMI Give You LoveWycliffe Gordon & His International All Stars
ALBUMWithin These Gates of MineWycliffe Gordon
ALBUMSomebody NewWycliffe Gordon & The Dimartino Osland Jazz Orchestra
ALBUMThe Intimate Ellington: Ballads and Blues (feat. Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Aaron Diehl, Yasushi Nakamura, Alvin Atkinson Jr. & Dee Daniels)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMDreams of New OrleansWycliffe Gordon
ALBUMWe (Extended)Wycliffe Gordon & Eric Reed
ALBUMHello Pops! (A Tribute to Louis Armstrong)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMThe Word, Vol. 2Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMOregon Music Education Association 2011 All State Jazz BandOregon MEA 2011 All State Jazz Band & Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMI'm Glad There Is YouWycliffe Gordon & Niki Haris
ALBUMCone and T - Staff (feat. Terell Stafford, Mike LeDonne, David Wong & Kenny Washington)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMBoss Bones (feat. Andre Hayward, Mike LeDonne, John Webber & Kenny Washington)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMCone's Coup (feat. Stacy Dillard, Johnny O'Neal, Reginald Veal & Herlin Riley)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMDig This!! (feat. Seamus Blake, Peter Bernstein, Sam Yahel & Bill Stewart)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMThe Gospel Truth (feat. Marcus Printup, Victor Goines, Eric Reed, Reuben Rogers, Winard Harper, Carrie Smith, Kurt Stockdale, Jennifer Krupa & Dion Tucker)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMJam Session, Vol. 23Conrad Herwig, Vincent Gardner & Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMIn the CrossWycliffe Gordon
ALBUMThe Joyride (feat. Victor Goines, Farid Barron, Rodney Whitaker & Herlin Riley)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMUnited Soul Experience (feat. Seamus Blake, David Kikoski, Larry Grenadier & Bill Stewart)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMWhat You Dealin' With (feat. Ryan Kisor, Victor Goines, Herb Harris, Zach Pride & Rodney Green)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMThe Search (feat. Marcus Printup, Ted Nash & Eric Reed)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMSlidin' Home - NYC MixWycliffe Gordon
ALBUMSlidin' Home (feat. Victor Goines & Eric Reed)Wycliffe Gordon
ALBUMBone StructureWycliffe Gordon & Ronald Westray
ALBUMConcert for Planet EarthGal Costa, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Reginald Veal, Todd Williams, Sarah Chang, Herlin Riley, Wycliffe Gordon, Plácido Domingo, John DeMain, Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, Denyce Graves, Chorus and Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janiero, Eric Reed & Wes Anderson
About Wycliffe Gordon
Artist Biography
Trombone player Wycliffe Gordon is best known for his work with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of jazz maestro, Wynton Marsalis. The versatile trombonist can scat, multi-note, slide, and plunge, just like he stepped out of the 1930s. Gordon has played with many jazz luminaries, including Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis,Lionel Hampton, Tommy Flanagan, and Shirley Horn. His musical colleagues call him "Pine Cone," since he grew up in the piney woods of Georgia.
It must have been this Ellington era quality that caught the ears of jazz educator Wynton Marsalis, who heard Gordon play while the trumpeter was giving a workshop at Gordon's alma mater, Florida A&M University. Their fortuitous meeting resulted in Gordon joining the Wynton Marsalis Septet, as well as the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, in 1989. As a member of the illustrious band, Gordon contributed as both musician and composer. Gordon, who like Charles Mingus says he hears music in his head all the time, has managed to write some of it down, and then hear it performed all over the world by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Whether they know it or not, National Public Radio fans are familiar with the musician's work: In 1993, Gordon composed the NPR theme song.
Gordon, an admirer of Louis Armstrong, J.J. Johnson, and Jack Teagarden, prefers the melodic approach to playing and composition. The listener can hear that on any of his outstanding recordings. His first outing was with fellow trombonist Ron Westray on their 1996 release, Bone Structure. More good things came with Slidin' Home, recorded in 1999. Joined by Victor Goines, Eric Reed, Rodney Whitaker, Herlin Riley, Milt Grayson, Joe Temperley, and Randy Sandke, Gordon really struts his stuff on this one, showing a wide range of influences from big band to gospel.
The Search, recorded in 2000, ranges as far and wide as the title suggests, and includes Gordon holding forth on the didgeridoo. Gordon, whose father was the pianist at the church the trumpeter grew up in, devotes himself to his gospel roots on The Gospel Truth, (2000). What You Dealin' With, (2001), continues in a jazz vein with original compositions and jazz standards. Gordon's 2002 release We may be his best yet, as the trombonist collaborates with pianist Eric Reed on jazz and gospel tunes.
Besides performing and educating at his own music school in his hometown of Augusta, GA, Gordon has another important project: writing the score for the Oscar Micheaux 1925 silent film, Body and Soul. Paul Robeson starred in the movie about race, religion, and small town life in the South. Gordon drew upon his own Southern upbringing to produce music from the church, the bars, and the home, to be performed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Gordon has begun to evidence an interest in vocalizing, something which he says he plans to do increasingly. The results are sure to be top drawer, as the exuberant Wycliffe Gordon throws himself into things, body and soul. ~ Rose of Sharon Witmer
Hometown
Waynesboro, GA, United States
Genre
Jazz
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