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History of Tony Trischka's Music & Recordings |
"You
think about somebody like Miles Davis or John Coltrane,
people who learned everything about jazz and then digested
it and it came out a new way. I think Tony's very similar;
he's that kind of figure in the banjo world. Tony was
ahead of his time. My springboard was Tony Trischka, and
without Tony, none of what's happened with my music would
have happened."
– Béla Fleck |
Recordings
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Solo Albums for Rounder Records:
• Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, Tony Trischka -
with Bela Fleck, Steve Martin, Earl Scruggs, Alison Brown and
others, 2007
• New Deal, The Tony Trischka Band, 2003
• Bend, The Tony Trischka Band, 1999
• The Early Years (compilation), 1998
• Glory Shone Around: A Christmas Collection (with Pete
Seeger, Turtle Island String Quartet, Charles Osgood, others),
1995
• World Turning (featuring William S. Burroughs, David
Grisman, Alison Krauss, Van Dyke Parks, members of REM, Syd
Straw, others), 1993
• Solo Banjo Works (with Bela Fleck), 1993
• Rounder Banjo Extravaganza (with Tom Adams & Tony
Furtado), 1992
• Dust on the Needle, 1988
• Hill Country, 1985
• Robot Plane Flies Over Arkansas, 1983
• Fiddle Tunes for Banjo (with Bela Fleck & Bill Keith),
1981
• Banjoland, 1976
• Heartlands, 1975
• Bluegrass Light, 1974
Solo
Album For Smithsonian Folkways
• Untitled, to be released in 2007, solo and duos with
Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, etc.
Skyline
Albums for Flying Fish Records:
• Ticket Back (compilation), 1999
• Fire of Grace, 1989
• Skyline Drive, 1986
• Stranded in the Moonlight, 1984
• Late to Work, 1983
Country
Cooking Albums for Rounder Records:
• Country Cooking (compilation), 1989
• Barrel of Fun, 1974
• Frank Wakefield, 1972
• 15 Bluegrass Instrumentals, 1971
Psychograss
Albums:
• Now Hear This 2005
• Live in Vermont 2002
• Like Minds (for Sugar Hill Records), 1996
• Psychograss (for Windham Hill Records), 1994
Grass
is Greener Albums (with Richard Greene) for Rebel Records:
• Sales Tax Toddle, 1997 (1998 Grammy Award nominee)
• Wolves A’Howlin’, 1996
Big
Dogs Album for Strictly Country Records:
• Live at the Birchmere, 1991
Duet
Album with Beppe Gambetta for Brambus and Alcazar Records:
• Alone and Together, 1992
Other
Recordings:
• Knee Deep in Bluegrass (Rebel Records), Accu-tab compilation,
International Bluegrass Music Association Instrumental Album
of the Year 2001
• Where Have all the Flowers Gone (Appleseed Records),
other artists include Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen,
March 1998 (Grammy nominee)
• True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe (Sugar Hill
Records), Grammy Award Winner in Best Bluegrass Album category
1996
• For the Children Too (Pedatric Aids benefit cd), with
Natalie Merchant and Jay Ungar, May 1996
• Early American Songs, with the Waverly Consort, (Angel
Records), Spring 1996 release
• American Dreamer, songs of Stephen Foster, with Thomas
Hampson and Jay Ungar (Angel Records), 1993
• “Open Letter to Duke” for Hal Willner’s
Weird Nightmare - The Music of Charles Mingus (A & M Records),
1993
• Cast Recording of Steven Sondheim’s Assassins
(RCA Records), 1992
• Composed and performed music for:
National IKEA advertising campaign, 1992
National Public Radio’s “Books on Air”, 1990
Scott Paper promotional film, 1988
• Performed incidental music for Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer
Prize winning play “Driving Miss Daisy”, 1987
• Countless sessions; from Bluegrass (Peter Rowan, Hazel
Dickens), to Alternative Rock (Violent Femmes), to Broadway
Musicals (“The Robber Bridegroom”)
• Jingles: from NBC to Ken-L-Ration
