David Tronzo | |
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Born | Rochester, New York, U.S. | December 13, 1957
Genres | Jazz, pop, rock, experimental |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Guitar |
Years active | 1972–present |
David Tronzo (born 1957) is an American guitarist, best known [1] [2] [3] for his innovation of pairing the techniques of electric slide guitar with the genres of bebop, modern jazz, rock, downtown music, and experimental music. He has recorded with former David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels, Wayne Horvitz, [4] David Sanborn, [5] and The Lounge Lizards. [6]
David Tronzo was born in 1957 in Rochester, New York. He was drawn to music at age eleven and decided on guitar by age thirteen and taught himself. By age fifteen he was playing gigs. "I was playing five nights a week, though I really just had three good notes and five good chords." [7] He credits rock music as an early influence. [3]
He lived in New York City from 1979 to 2002. [3] As Visiting Artist at Berlin's Hochschule der Künste (HdK), his technique on the slide guitar was documented in two doctoral theses in Germany, in 1995 and 2001. [3] He has also been an Artist in Residence at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. [3] [8]
He appeared in the movie Talking Guitars as himself in 2007. His work has also appeared on the soundtracks of two films: Short Cuts in 1993 and Excess Baggage in 1997.
Tronzo has been an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music [7] since 2003. [9] [10]
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