Ray Anderson
Curriculum Vitae, January, 2011
EDUCATION
B. A. Empire State College. 2010
EMPLOYMENT
BAND LEADER
1979 – Present. Ray Anderson Quartet; Ray Anderson Trio; Wishbone Ensemble;
Alligatory Band; Raybone Big Band; Lapis Lazuli Band; Pocket Brass Band.
CO-LEADER
1977 – Present. Slickaphonics; BassDrumBone; Slideride; Ray Anderson-Marty Ehrlich
Quartet
COMPOSER
1975 – Present. More than 100 published and recorded compositions.
MUSIC PERFORMER
1972 - Present. Professional trombonist with: Luther Allison; Anthony Braxton; Mark
Dresser; Gil Evans; Charlie Haden; Mark Helias; Gerry Hemingway; Dr. John; George
Lewis; David Murray; Sam Rivers; George Russell; John Scofield; Henry Threadgill;
Kenny Werner; John Zorn; Conjunto Melao; Fajardo; and many others. Has also played
several Broadway shows and in countless other groups. Has appeared on approximately
90 recordings as a sideman.
TEACHER
Visiting Professor, Director of Jazz Studies, Stony Brook University, 2003-present.
Courses taught on both Graduate and Undergraduate levels:
Big Band Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo Laboratory, Jazz Ensemble Tutorial,
Improvisation Laboratory, Master Class in Solo Repertory, Independent Studies
Tutorial, Directed Study in Performance, Doctoral Essay Tutorial, Doctoral
Colloquim.
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS
Echo Jazz Award: Instrumentalist of the Year, International /Brass, 2010
Chamber Music America, New Works, 2006
New York State Council for the Arts. 2002
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. 2001.
Chamber Music America, New Works, 2001.
Suffolk County Arts Council. 2001
Oberon Foundation. 1999.
National Endowment for the Arts. 1983
Best Trombonist. Downbeat Magazine. International Critics Poll, 1991
Best Trombonist. Downbeat Magazine. International Critics Poll, 1990
Best Trombonist. Downbeat Magazine. International Critics Poll, 1989
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Best Trombonist. Downbeat Magazine. International Critics Poll, 1988
Best Trombonist. Downbeat Magazine. International Critics Poll, 1987
Album of the Year. German Jazz Critics Association. Old Bottles, New Wine, 1986
PUBLICATIONS
Recordings As A Leader
Harrisburg Half-Life (Moers Music 01074,1980)
Right Down Your Alley (Soul Note SN 1087, 1984)
Old Bottles, New Wine (Enja 4098, 1985)
It Just So Happens (Enja 5037, 1987)
Blues Bred In The Bone (Enja 5081, 1988)
What Because (Gramavision 79453 1990)
Wishbone (Gramavision 79454, 1991
Every One of Us (Gramavision 79471, 1992)
Don’t Mow Your Lawn Ray Anderson’s Alligatory Band (Enja 8070, 1994)
Big-Band Record (Gramavision 79497, 1994)
Heads and Tales Ray Anderson’s Alligatory Band (Enja 9055, 1995)
Bimwo Swing The Brande International Music Workshop Orchestra (Dacapo DCCD
9432, 1996)
Funkorific, Ray Anderson’s Lapis Lazuli Band (Enja 9340, 1998)
Where Home Is, Ray Anderson’s Pocket Brass Band (Enja 9366-2, 1999)
Bonemeal, Ray Anderson Quartet Live at Paula Jean’s Supper Club
(Raybone Music, 2000)
Hear You Say The Ray Anderson – Marty Ehrlich Quartet (Intuition 71303, November,
2010)
Cooperatives
Hidden Strength Hidden Strength (United Artists, (UA-LA555, 1975)
BassDrumBone (R.A., trombone; Mark Helias, bass; Gerry Hemingway, drums)
Oahspe (Auricle 2, 1978)
You Be (Minor Music 007, 1986)
Wooferlo (Soul Note, SN 121 187, 1988)
Hence The Reason (Enja 9322-2, 1996)
March of Dimes (Data 021, 1997)
Cooked To Perfection (Auricle 1999)
The Line-Up (Clean Feed, 2006)
The Other Parade (2011)
Slickaphonics (R.A. Mark Helias, Allan Jaffe, Steve Elson, Jim Payne.)
Wow Bag (Enja 4024, 1982)
Modern Life (Enja 4062, 1984)
Humatomic Energy (Teldec 6.26387, 1985)
Check Your Head at the Door (Teldec 6.26387,,1986)
Live (Teldec 6.26705, 1987)
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Ray Anderson, Han Bennink, Christy Doran
Azurety (Hat Art CD 6155, 1995)
Cheer Up (Hat Art CD 6175, 1995)
Slideride (R.A., Craig Harris, Gary Valente, George Lewis, tb)
Slideride (Hat Art CD 6155, 1994)
Ray Anderson, Mark Dresser
Nine Songs Together (CIMP #295; 2003)
Ray Anderson, Bob Stewart, (The Heavy Metal Duo)
Work Songs and Other Spirituals (Raybone records, 2004)
Selected List of Recordings With Other Leaders
Rickie Boger
Slow Down, Baby (Muse, MR 5084, 1975)
Luther Allison
Night Life (Gordy G6-974S1, 1976)
Baird Hersey and the Year of the Ear:
Lookin’ For That Groove (Arista AN 3004, 1978)
Gerry Hemingway:
Kwambe (Auricle AUR 1, 1978)
Outerbridge Crossing (Sound Aspects sas017, 1985)
Devils Paradise (Clean Feed CF010CD)
Allan Jaffe:
Soundscape (Kromel, KR1001, 1978)
Greg Alper
Fat Doggie ( Adelphi Records,AD 5009, 1978)
Barry Altschul:
Somewhere Else (Moers Music,01064, 1979)
Another Time, Another Place (Muse MR 5176, 1978)
For Stu (Soul Note, SN 1015, 1981)
Anthony Braxton:
Seven Compositions 1978 (Moers Music 1066, 1979)
Performance 9/1/79 (Hat Art Nineteen 2R19, 1979)
Composition 98 (Hat Art 1984, 1981)
Creative Orchestra, 1978 (hat Art CD2-6171, 1978)
Composition # 94 For Three Instrumentalists (Leo records, Golden Years, GY 3,
1980, released 2000)
Roscoe Mitchell:
Sketches For Bamboo (Moers Music, momu 02024, 1979)
Leo Smith:
Budding of A Rose (Moers Music 02026, 1979)
Peter Warren:
Solidarity (ECM Japo 60034, 1982)
Tim Berne:
The Ancestors (Soul Note SN 1061, 1983)
George Russel:
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Live In an American Time Spiral (Soul Note, SN1049, 1982)
Bennie Wallace:
Sweeping Through The City ( Enja, 4078, 1984)
Twilight Time (Blue Note, BT 85107, 1985)
Border Town (Blue Note B1-48014, 1988)
UMO Jazz Orchestra Plays The Music of Bennie Wallace (Pro records 008,
recorded 1987, released 1994)
Henry Threadgill:
Subject To Change (About Time,AT-1007, 1984)
John Lindberg:
Trilogy of Works for Eleven Instrumentalists (Black Saint,BSR 0082, 1984)
Roberto Ottaviano:
The Leap (Red Records, NS213, 1987)
Motoharu Sano:
Visitors (Epic/ Sony 28-3H-123, 1984)
Ryuichi Sakamoto:
School (Midi MTL1001, 1984)
Hank Roberts:
Black Pastels (JMT 834416, 1988)
Fool Proof:
No Friction (Gramavision, 18-8804-1, 1988)
Alte Liedenschaften:
Alte Liedenschaften (Hormes 807446, 1988)
George Gruntz:
Happening Now! (Hat Hut hat Art 6008, 1988)
Blues ‘N Dues Et Cetera (enja 6072 2, 1991)
Beyond Another Wall (TCB music94102, 1992)
Merryteria (TCB 99502, 1998)
George Gruntz/ Allen Ginsburg:
Cosmopolitan Greetings (Musikszene Schweiz, MGB cd 9203, 1992)
Barbara Dennerlein:
Straight Ahead (Enja 5077 2, 1988)
That’s Me (Justin Time, JTR,8439-2,1992)
Take Off! (Verve 527 664-2, 1995)
Outhipped (Verve 547 503-2, 1999)
Bobby Previte:
Claude’s Late Morning (Gramavision, 5688405, 1988)
Bobby Previte & Bump. Just Add Water (Palmetto, PM 2081, 2001)
Klaus Konig:
Times of Devastation (Enja 6014, 1989)
Reviews (Enja 9061 2, 1995)
Mark Helias:
Desert Blue (Enja 6016, 1989)
Daniel Schnyder:
The City (Enja 6002, 1989)
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Decoding the Message (Enja 6063, 1989)
Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra:
Dream Keeper (DIW 844, 1990)
The Montreal Tapes (Verve 527 469-2, 1989)
The New York Composer’s Orchestra:
The New York Composer’s Orchestra
(New World Records/Countercurrents NW397-2, 1990)
First Program In Standard Time
(New World/Countercurrents 80418-2, 1992)
Dr. John:
Bluesiana II (Windham Hill Jazz 01934 10133-2, 1991) Allen Toussaint:
Bluesiana Hot Sauce (Shanachie 5009, 1993)
Masahiko Sato:
Randooga (Epic/Sony ESCA 5171, 1990)
Bob Nell:
Why I Like Coffee (New World / Countercurrents 80419-2,1991)
Lew Soloff:
Little Wing (Sweet Basil 7308-2,1991)
Pete Levin:
A Solitary Man (Gramavision R2 79457, 1990)
Lucky Petersen:
Triple Play (Alligator ALCD 4789, 1990)
Ron Thaler:
Works (TP records TP9401, 1993)
Carlos Bica:
Azul (Emarcy 532 951 - 2, 1995)
Christy Doran:
Phoenix (Hat Art CD 6074, 1990)
Christy Doran - Fredy Studer:
Half A Lifetime (Unit records UTR 4068, 1993)
John Scofield
Electric Outlet (Gramavision, 1991)
Super Trombone:
Super Trombone (Sweet Basil APCZ-8025, 1995)
Take Five (Videoarts Music VACM 1171, 2001)
Randy Sandke:
The Chase (Concord CCD-4642, 1994)
Inside Out (Nagel Heyer 2025; 2000)
Jerome Harris:
Hidden In Plain View (New World/Countercurrents 80472-2, 1995)
David Murray:
David Murray Quintet with Ray Anderson & Anthony Davis
(DIW 908, 1994)
Jerome Thomas:
Big Bone Band (ELEP 1995-05 Radio Suisse Romande, 1994)
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Karl Berger:
Conversations (In and Out Records, IOR 77027-2, 1994)
Bob Thiele Collective:
Lion-Hearted (Red Baron JK 5735, 1993)
D.D. Jackson:
Paired Down vol 2 ( Justin Time, JUST 104-2, 1996) (a CD of Duo’s with D.D.
Thomas Gustafson:
T.G. Evil Orchestra (Dragon of Sweden, DRCD 330, 1997))
Bernard Primeau:
Virage (Swing’ In Time SIT 97001-2, 1997)
Erika Stucky:
Ach Mamma (one track on Ohre Wurm 3, Tudor records, 8168, 1998)
Bubbles and Bones (Traumton 4454, 2001)
Lovebites (Traumton 4470, 2003)
Vienna Art Orchestra:
American Rhapsody: A Tribute To George Gershwin
(RCA Victor 09026 63227 2)
Sam Rivers:
Inspiration (BMG 743216 471720, 1998)
Culmination (BMG 743216 831128, 1998)
Andreas Vollenweider:
Cosmopoly (Columbia CD 899-01. 1999)
Marty Ehrlich:
Song (Enja 9396-2, 1999)
The Long View (Enja 9542, 2003)
New York Jazz Collective:
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (Naxos jazz 86073-2, 2000)
Yosuke Yamashita:
Field of Grooves (Verve, UCCJ-2009 2001)
John Hollenbeck:
No Images (Composers Recordings, Inc. CD 2002, 1995; released 2001).
Pierre Dorge & New Jungle Orchestra:
Dancing Cheek to Cheek (Stunt records STUCD 04062, 2004)
Roswell Rudd:
Trombone Tribe. (2007)
James Weidman:
Three Worlds (Inner Circle Music, 2009)
The Bob Thiele Collective:
What A Wonderful World (Red Baron records, JK64602 1995)
Schneekoenig:
Relaunch (Turicaphon AG,ES 73794, 2010)
Ricardo Gallo:
Tierra De Nadie; The Great Fine Line (Clean Feed CF209CD, 2010)
Paul Van Kemenade:
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Who Is In Charge? (KEMO 10, May 2011)
RECORD COMPANIES:
About Time, Adelphi, Alligator, Auricle, Black Saint, Blue Note, Clean Feed, Columbia,
Concord, Enja, Epic/Sony, Emarcy, Gramavision, Hat Art, Intuition, JMT, Justin Time,
Leo, Moers, Muse, Naxos, New World, Nagel Heyer, Palmetto, RCA Victor, Red Baron,
Red Records, Shanachie, Soul Note, Sweet Basil, Teldec, United Artists, Verve,
Wyndham Hill.
COMPOSITIONS
2009: Goodbye Comes Before Hello Suite for the photograhic installation and book of the
same name. Some of this work will be featured in America Now and Here, a traveling art
exhibit opening in Kansas City, May 2011.
2007: King Louis-ian, The Masque, and Lips and Grits for BassDrumBone,
commissioned by Chamber Music America. Recorded on The Other Parade, Clean Feed
records, 2011.
2002: The Sweet Chicago Suite for the Pocket Brass Band commissioned by Chamber
Music America. To be released on Intuition records in 2011.
2001: The Feast Of Love (for Gospel Choir and Trombone Choir) commissioned by the
Guggenheim Foundation.
OTHER COMPOSITIONS
Title
Ecaroo
Gibberish
Stomping On Enigmas
If I Ever Had a Home, It Was a Slide Trombone
Harrisburg Half-Life
March of The Hipsters
Tapajack
Right Down Your Alley
Portrait of Mark Dresser
Portrait of Willie Vargas
It Just So Happens
Ross The Boss
Fatelet
Fishin’ With Gramps
Elegy For Joe Scott
Raven’s Jolly Jump-Up
Blues Bred In The Bone
53rd And Greenwood
Datune
Date Composed
2/75
3/75
4/76
8/77
12/78
12/78
10/77
5/79
6/79
4/80
2/82
4/82
10/85
10/85
11/86
12/86
4/87
5/87
5/87
Recorded
5/77
5/77
5/77
6/80
6/80
6/80
6/84
3/84
3/84
3/84
2/87
2/87
2/87
2/87
2/87
2/87
3/88
3/88
3/88
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Hemlines
Alligatory Crocodile
The Warm-up
What Because
Off Peak
Raven-a-ning
Waltz For Phoebe
The Gahtooze
Ah Soca
Cape Horn
The Wishbone Suite
One For Miss D.
Funkalific
Kinda Garnerish
Muddy and Willie
Snoo Tune
Lips Apart
Anabel At One
Leo’s Place
My Wish
Seven Monsters
Don’t Mow Your Lawn
Diddleybop
Damaged But Good
What’cha Gonna Do With That?
Airwaves
Blow Your Own Horn
Disguise the Limit
Azurety
The Waters Dixon Line
The Four Reasons Suite
Hunting and Gathering
Heads and Tales
Matters of the Heart
Unsung Songs
Tough Guy
Road Song
Drink and Blather
My Children Are The Reason Why I
Need to Own My Publishing
Like Silver
Hence The Real Reason
Pheromonical
Runnin’ Round
Mirror Mirror
9/87
12/87
1/89
1/89
2/89
4/89
4/89
2/90
2/90
4/90
10/90
2/92
2/91
4/91
6/91
10/91
1/93
1/93
4/93
8/93
9/93
9/93
9/93
2/94
3/94
3/94
3/94
2/93
1/93
2/93
8/94
3/88
10/89
10/89
10/89
10/89
10/89
10/89
12/90
12/90
12/90
12/90
3/92
6/92
6/92
6/92
6/92
1/94
1/94
1/94
1/94
1/94
1/94
4/94
4/94
4/94
4/94
4/94
4/94
4/94
4/94
5/95
12/94
1/95
1/95
5/95
5/95
5/95
2/94
2/94
2/96
2/96
4/96
5/97
3/95
3/95
3/96
1/98
1/98
1/98
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Hammond Eggs
Monkey Talk
I’m Not A Spy
Funkalific
Bimwa Swing
The Alligatory Abagua
Where Home Is
Peace In Our Time
Choppers
The Welcome
Gulf Stream Dream
Three Plus One
Microwave Women
Bonemeal
Green Eyes, Fireflies
Blowage 2003
Insistent
Taps for Jackie
Blowage 2004
Nevisian Afternoon
Blowage 2005
Blowage 2006
Blowage 2007
Alligatory Rhumba
Blowage 2008
Blowage 2009
The Stingray Rag
Next March
Blowage 2010
Hot Crab Pot
As Yet
6/97
8/97
8/97
1996
4/96
6/96
6/96
7/96
2/99
6/99
1/99
6/99
3/99
10/99
2000
3/03
2003
2003
3/04
2004
2/05
2/06
2/07
2007
2008
2009
2010
2010
2010
2009
2010
1/98
1/98
1/98
1999
8/96
11/98
11/98
11/98
4/00
6/99
6/99
6/99
4/00
4/00
4/00
2003
2003
2009
8/09
2010
2010
2010
2009
2010
SELECTED LIST OF RECENT PERFORMANCES
12/27/10- 1/3/10
Umbria Winter Jazz festival, Orvieto (I)
11/6/2010
Berlin Jazz festival
11/20/2010
Roswell Rudd Celebration, City Winery, NYC
11/11/2010
Joe’s Pub, NYC
10/22/2010
The Vortex, London
10/21/2010
The Festival at Queen’s, Belfast
6/30/2010
Jazz Lent festival, Maribor, (SLO)
5/30/2010
Young Jazz Festival, Foligno (I)
5/25/2010
Radio Suisse Romande, Lausanne
5/23/2010
VPRO Radio ToneJazz Festival, s’Hertogenbosch, (NL)
5/17/2010
Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb (HR)
5/15/2010
Duc des Lombards, Paris (F)
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3/24/2010
12/20/2009
11/12-15, 2009
8/29/09
7/3-12, 2009
6/15-20, 2009
4/22-26, 2009
3/18/2009
12/1/2008
11/31/2008
10/17-20/2007
814-19/2007
8/11/2007
Jazz Standard, NYC, NY
Bim Huis, Amsterdam (NL)
The Rex, Toronto, Canada
Willisau Jazz Festival, Willisau, (CH)
Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax Jazz
Festivals
Linz, Salzburg, Cologne, Amsterdam and Paris
Jazzkaar festival, Tallinn, Estonia
Mexico City Cultural Festival
Thessalonika, Greece
Lisbon, (P)
Ann Arbor, MI
Blue Note, NYC, NY
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
OTHER SIGNIFCANT PERFORMANCES INCLUDE:
Brisbane Jazz Festival (1999); La Villette Festival du Jazz (Paris, ’99 and 2001);
Banlieau Blue Festival (Paris, 1999); Berlin Jazz Festival (2000 & 2004);
Bimhuis, (Amsterdam, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003); Clusone Jazz Festival (Italy,
2003); Willisau Festival (Switzerland, 2001, 2003); Frankfurt Jazz Festival
(2003); Chicago Jazz Festival (2001 and 2004); JVC Festival (New York, 2003)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
Responsibilities include: teaching jazz conception, theory, practice and history;
teaching the art of musical improvisation in both jazz and classical contexts;
coaching chamber ensembles; directing independent studies; giving master
classes; organizing concerts and performances.
COURSES TAUGHT
MUS 189
Beginning Jazz Improvisation
MUS 264
Big Band Jazz Ensemble Laboratory
MUS 267
Jazz Combo Laboratory
MUS 487
Independent Project Laboratory
MUS 568
Jazz Ensemble Tutorial
MUS 572
Improvisation Laboratory
MUS 575
Master Class in Solo Repertory Tutorial
MUS 599
Independent Studies Tutorial
MUS 671
Directed Study in Performance
MUS 695
Doctoral Essay Tutorial
MUS 696
Doctoral Colloquium
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Undergraduate Studies Committee 2003 – present
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Bass Search Committee – 2008
Brilliant Corners Symposium Planning Committee – 2008
Black History Month Planning Committee – 2007, 2008
College of Arts and Humanities Freshman Seminar 2009, 2010, 2011.
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SELECTED LIST OF WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES
2012: Universtiy of Wisconsin at Whitewater.
2011: University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
2009: U. of Southern Florida; Vancouver Jazz Festival;
JazzKaar Festival, Tallinn, Estonia;
2008: North Carolina School of the Arts.
2007: Ann Arbor Public Schools; U. of Iowa; Iowa City Jazz Festival.
2006: Virginia Commonwealth University
2005: Rhythm Music Conservatory, Copenhagen; Innsbruck Conservatory of Music.
2004: Hampshire College;
2003: Arkilde Jazz Camp, Denmark;
2001: New School, NY;
2001: Artist in Residence, Stony Brook University, Spring semester.
1999: U. of Northern Iowa; Swiss Jazz School, Bern; Jazz School Luzern; U. of Graz;
1998: New School for Social Research; U. of Southern Mississippi; U. of Pensacola,
FL; U. of Alabama at Huntsville.
1997: Jazz Workshop, Lillehamer, Sweden; Berklee School of Music;
Institute for Social Affairs, Beilefeld, Germany
1996: New School for Social Research; Eastman School of Music; Northern Illinois
University; Institute for Social Affairs, Beilefeld, Germany
1995: U. of Colorado; Al Grey Jazz Camp; U. of North Texas;
Institute for Social Affairs, Beilefeld, Germany
1994: Dartmouth College; Institute for Social Affairs, Beilefeld, Germany
1993: U. of Toronto.
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