Stephan Crump's Passerine
Schedule
Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Close Up NYC | New York, NY
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An extraordinary ensemble and body of work inspired by the nest-building techniques of various birdsChes Smith - percussion
Kenny Warren - trumpet
David Leon - alto flute / alto saxophone
Stephan Crump - acoustic bass
The album "Passerine" arrives Oct 23, 2026 on Out of Your Head Records on LP, CD, digital
www.stephancrump.com
“As a bassist and composer, Mr. Crump avoids obvious routes
but manages never to lose his way”
The New York Times
“strikingly fresh and unobvious compositions...an impressive
and original voice”
The Wire (UK)
“categories cease to matter”
JazzTimes
“astonishingly beautiful playing”
London Jazz News
“Crump’s music is original”
Downbeat
Stephan Crump is a bassist and composer, collaborator and bandleader, soloist and educator, based in New York City since 1994. A Memphis native, Crump fell for New York’s fecund scenes during his first semester at Amherst College, when he would drive hours to play late- night, weekday gigs in the West Village. He knew this is where he’d make his life and career.
Working beyond genre, he has become a crucial component of multiple New York music communities in and beyond jazz. For two decades, Crump recorded and toured as a third of Vijay Iyer’s acclaimed trio, helping to build that band’s global reputation. Meanwhile, many of his own ensembles—Rhombal, with Tyshawn Sorey, Ellery Eskelin, and Adam O’Farrill; Secret Keeper, with Mary Halvorson; Rosetta Trio, with Jamie Fox and Liberty Ellman—prize versatility and voicings in a manner that more traditional configurations often do not. His Borderlands Trio, with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Eric McPherson, brings this same mentality to a more familiar setting. Other collaborators have included Miguel Zenón, Gordon Gano, Patti Austin, Johnny Clyde Copeland, Wadada Leo Smith, Jim Campilongo, David Gilmore, Sam Newsome, Steve Lehman, Cory Smythe, Ingrid Laubrock, Okkyung Lee, Mat Maneri, and Ches Smith.
Crump’s physical and emotional connection to the bass is abundant through the new sextet Slow Water, which explores ecology and environment through composition and group communication. He teaches On Magnetism, a course in connecting more deeply through one’s instrument, after a lifetime of doing just that, and lives still in Brooklyn with his wife and collaborator, the singer Jen Chapin, and their two sons.
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Close Up NYC, 154 Orchard Street ,New York, New York, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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