https://thelukestewart.com Luke Stewart Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:54:16 +0000 https://thelukestewart.com en https://thelukestewart.com/Start-Page Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:40:08 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/Start-Page LUKE STEWART <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b31698b450508146aaf5db480c4eefe056735734e65b354441c19b1e31724169/Luke_Stewart_photo-by-Jake-Meginsky.jpg" data-mid="64652172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b31698b450508146aaf5db480c4eefe056735734e65b354441c19b1e31724169/Luke_Stewart_photo-by-Jake-Meginsky.jpg" /> https://thelukestewart.com/About-1 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 23:15:51 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/About-1 Luke Stewart is a musician, performer, improviser-composer, organizer, and writer-researcher whose work represents a deep reverence for the history and tradition of Creative Music: a tradition which encompasses the diverse styles of expression within the body of Black Music in the United States, Africa, and throughout the world. Stewart’s regular ensembles include Irreversible Entanglements, SILT Trio, Exposure Quintet, and the experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths; he also performs regularly in numerous collaborations. In his Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier and Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier Vol 1 and Vol 2 (Astral Spirits, 2018, 2021, 2022), Stewart explores real-time harmonic and melodic possibilities, as well as the intersection of the acoustic and the electronic—the relationship between wood and electricity. He uses the resonant qualities of the bass and one or more amplifiers to create reverberations from the plucking of strings, his bow, and moving the instrument itself back and forth in space. Over the years, Stewart has performed at Arts for Art’s Vision Festival, New York, NY; Winter Jazzfest, New York, NY; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C; Rhizome DC, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN; the BIMHUIS, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark, among many other venues and festivals in the United States and abroad. As a scholar, Stewart has also performed and lectured at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY; George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; University of Montana, Missoula, MT; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Stewart has had residencies at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY; The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL; and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY. He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2022) to support his work with KO Arts in New Orleans. Stewart was noted in DownBeat as one of twenty-five performers to “shape jazz for decades” (2020). He holds a B.A. from American University and an M.A. from The New School, where he is also an adjunct professor in the College of Performing Arts. Stewart is a co-founder and artistic director of CapitalBop, a Washington, D.C.-based jazz nonprofit. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5671aa604a97f4f07d7cfc79b2a0b4a1d6cf2ab424d84a2a5337245ac11d58df/Luke_Stewart_photo-by-Jake-Meginsky.jpg" data-mid="65786903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5671aa604a97f4f07d7cfc79b2a0b4a1d6cf2ab424d84a2a5337245ac11d58df/Luke_Stewart_photo-by-Jake-Meginsky.jpg" />photo by Jake Meginsky&nbsp; https://thelukestewart.com/Projects-1 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:25:32 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/Projects-1 ︎SOLO ︎BLACK MYTHS︎IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS ︎DAMU THE FUDGEMUNK, ARCHIE SHEPP &amp; RAW POETIC ︎HEART OF THE GHOST ︎JAMES BRANDON LEWIS ︎HEROES ARE GANG LEADERS︎LUKE STEWART / SAM LOHMAN ︎MEAN CROW︎LUKE STEWART / BRIAN SETTLES / WARREN “TRAE” CRUDUP, III ︎TRIO OOO https://thelukestewart.com/SOLO Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:16:19 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/SOLO SOLO︎back to projects Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier by Luke Stewart Gaps by Luke Stewart Rhizome Residency - Solos by Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/BLACK-MYTHS Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:16:27 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/BLACK-MYTHS BLACKS’ MYTHS︎back to projectsBlacks&#39; Myths I LP by Blacks&#39; MythsBlacks&#39; Myths II by Blacks&#39; Myths Blacks' Myths is a duo from Washington, DC comprised of Luke Stewart on bass and Warren G. "Trae" Crudup III on drums. The gTwo of DC's most active and versatile musicians, Stewart and Crudup build symbiotic rhythmic pieces by locking into something both hypnotic and free. Their collaboration is redefining the rhythm section by dismantling its tropes and injecting unpredictability as well as a sense of vibrancy and freedom. The group's debut, Blacks' Myths (Atlantic Rhythms, 2018), established a space for ambience and eruption, building hypnotic rhythmic structures and exploratory soundscapes."On Black Myths, Stewart and Crudup craft evocative, Afro-futuristic grooves, frequently disrupted by eruptions of feedback dissonance or languid soundscapes." -- Down Beat MagazineBlacks' MythsLuke Stewart - Electric Bass Guitar, Electronics, No Input Mixing Board on (The Big House, Alter Destiny, The Gideon)Warren Crudup, III - DrumsDr. Thomas "Bushmeat" Stanley - Words (The Big House, Alter Destiny, Pre Mythstory #4, The Gideon)Cedar and Lu - Words (The Gideon)Recorded and Mixed by Craig BowenMastered by Mickey Freeland https://thelukestewart.com/IRREVERSIBLE-ENTANGLEMENTS Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:16:50 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/IRREVERSIBLE-ENTANGLEMENTS IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS︎back to projects Who Sent You? by Irreversible EntanglementsHomeless/Global by Irreversible Entanglements Irreversible Entanglements by Irreversible EntanglementsStay on it! This is the future! This is the spectral dreaming, the reshaped soundwaves of post-Katrina, post-Osage Avenue, post-Obamacare that we borrow from to do this work, so stay on it.Who Sent You? they said from their liquid cryo-chamber, from a low-light induction field cobbled together with lithium rods, with melted down Romare Bearden and Howardena Pindell paintings, stitched with chaos fibers and placed in the center of the carrion husk of a burnt out shanty town. They took time to scrape ashen samples of what was, their souls the residue thick and caked on, that still climbs those new high-rise condominiums like moss—the only evidence that they were once there, that they were baked into the fabric of this planet—they were there fixing elevators and tossing wrenches into quantum fields until they were stopped! frisked! and turned into weird, 100-foot martyr murals on the backside, the north side, of supermarket walls—Who Sent You? is how the matrix modulation works.Dig it: Who Sent You? is the punk-rocking of jazz and the mystification of the avant-garde, a sci-fi sound from that out-soul-fire jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements. Who Sent You? they asked and tried to lock us in their distress chambers, and yet here it is: an album that functions as a heat-sealed care package for the modern Afrofuturist’s pre-flight machinations. This record weaves kinetic soul fusion, dreamy yet harrowing spectral poetry, and intricate force-field-tight rhythms into wild, warmth-giving tapestries that comfort and conceal, confront and coerce all at once, with the dark matter of the deep, black all-consuming universe as its thread.Where the band’s self-titled debut was all explosive noisy anthems and glorious cosmic bluster, Who Sent You? is a focused and patient ritual. Irreversible Entanglements take their time in between these grooves, stalking the war-torn streets of the Deep South and post-Columbian apocalypses—taking their time to add our DNA to the centrifuge, to dream up an alchemical amalgamation that sounds truly euphoric, drenched in the epic star-flung fallout of a nova only they can conjure. More than the sum of its parts—Luke Stewart’s war-like basslines, Keir Neuringer’s haunting saxophone, Aquiles Navarro’s cyberpunk brass, the unwieldy storm of Tcheser Holmes’ drums, and the oracular phyletic incantations of Camae Ayewa—Who Sent You? is an entire holistic jam of “infinite possibilities coming back around,” a sprawling meditation for afro-cosmonauts, a reminder of the forms and traumas of the past, and the shape and vision of Afrotopian sounds to come. creditsreleased March 20, 2020Camae Ayewa - voice, textsKeir Neuringer - saxophone, percussionAquiles Navarro - trumpet, percussionLuke Stewart - double bass, percussionTcheser Holmes - drums, congasWords Composed by Camae Ayewa.Music Composed by Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart, Tcheser Holmes; except “Amina” composed by Keir Neuringer, and “No Más” composed by Aquiles Navarro.Recorded at Kawari Studios, Philadelphia, March 1st, 2019. Mixed at Decade Studios, Chicago, October 2019. Mastered at Chicago Mastering Service, Chicago, November 2019.Engineered by Zach Goldstein.Recording Assisted by Steve Montenegro.Mixed by David Allen.Mastered by Greg Obis.Cover Art by Damon Locks.Insert Photo by Bob Sweeney.Liner Notes by Alex Smith.Layout &amp; Insert Design by Craig Hansen.Produced by Camae Ayewa, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart, Tcheser Holmes.Executive Production by Scott McNiece. https://thelukestewart.com/Damu-the-Fudgemunk-Archie-Shepp-Raw-Poetic Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:54:16 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/Damu-the-Fudgemunk-Archie-Shepp-Raw-Poetic Damu the Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp &amp; Raw Poetic︎back to projects Learning to Breathe Single (Extended Mix) by Damu the Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp &amp; Raw Poetic Damu the Fudgemunk and Raw Poetic's lead single from the upcoming collaborative album with the legendary elder statesman, saxophonist, Archie Shepp. Learning to Breathe brings Hip Hop and live music together for a high paced swinging jazz number. Raw Poetic is on point with the lyrics and gives the band of 7 musicians plenty room to breathe over the improvisation of the bass groove. Features a killer tenor sax solo from Archie Shepp. https://thelukestewart.com/HEART-OF-THE-GHOST Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:18:26 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/HEART-OF-THE-GHOST HEART OF THE GHOST︎back to projects Heart Of The Ghost is:Jarrett Gilgore (Alto Saxophone)Luke Stewart (Bass)Ian McColm (Drums) https://thelukestewart.com/JAMES-BRANDON-LEWIS Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:23:15 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/JAMES-BRANDON-LEWIS JAMES BRANDON LEWIS︎back to projects An UnRuly Manifesto by James Brandon LewisNew album available Feb 1st 2019 - Relative Pitch RecordsAn Unruly Manifesto is an album dedicated to Charlie Haden &amp; Ornette Coleman and Surrealism. Lewis describes this album as a call to action. “ Everyday is a chance to discover the truest version of your self and charge after that relentlessly.”Released February 1, 2019James Brandon Lewis - Tenor SaxophoneJaimie Branch - TrumpetLuke Stewart - BassAnthony Pirog - GuitarWarren Trae Crudup III - DrumsMastered by Paul Wickliffe at Skyline ProMixed by Mike Reina at The Jackfields on March 9th 2018Executive producers Mike Panico &amp; Kevin ReillyAll compositions by James Brandon LewisJames Brandon Lewis Music Publishing : AscapArt and design by Bill Mazza https://thelukestewart.com/CITIZENS-OF-NOWHERE Sun, 05 Apr 2020 13:37:09 +0000 Luke Stewart https://thelukestewart.com/CITIZENS-OF-NOWHERE CITIZENS OF NOWHERE︎back to projects