“As a bassist and composer, Mr. Crump avoids obvious routes but manages never to lose his way…”
The New York Times
“a visionary artist who can convey profound themes through the medium of sound”
All About Jazz
“Stephan Crump has been, sneakily perhaps, one of the most important musicians on the scene for 20 years.”
PopMatters
“categories cease to matter”
JazzTimes
“a deep, woody timbre that’s as malleable as it is muscular”
Chicago Reader
“astonishingly beautiful playing”
London Jazz News
“almost miraculous”
El País
“improvisational elegance”
The Guardian (UK)
“bareness in emotion”
NPR
“strikingly fresh and unobvious compositions…an impressive and original voice”
The Wire (UK)
Really looking forward to teaching and making music with the faculty and students at Bowling Green University on Feb 26-27. I’ll get to share all kinds of ideas and experience about making creative music, and we’ll play a bunch of my pieces from various periods and bands. What an honor…I can’t wait.
Otherlands Trio, with Darius Jones and Eric McPherson, just had an amazing ride in the studio. It’s going to be a very special album, out on Intakt in October of this year. Stay tuned….!
Looking forward to two sets this Saturday, January 18 at Bar Bayeux with Darius Jones and Eric McPherson as we prepare to go into the studio next week to record our first album together, due in the fall on Intakt Records. Join us at 8pm…
