Biography
Steve Cline first saw the light of day on January 6, 1970, in Conway Springs, a compact community situated in south-central Kansas, and spent his formative years there. After finishing secondary school in 1988 he enrolled at Wichita State University, where he pursued studies in music performance and composition. His tastes shifted during those collegiate years from the album-oriented rock of the seventies—he still quite young at the time—to jazz, a style local stations had never aired. Extended semesters prompted him to launch a weeknight program titled Jazz n' Things on KMUW, the public radio station serving Wichita; the broadcast spanned free improvisation, avant-garde pieces, and electronica, prompting widespread listener interest. He now holds the position of music librarian at the Wichita Public Library, an institution possessing an extraordinary recorded-music archive accessible through OCLC. He also keeps exploring compositions built from found sounds, performs on trombone throughout the area, and tends the website he originally assembled for the Conway Springs newspaper.
Desert Island List
Ornette Coleman: Science Fiction
Cecil Taylor: Alms/Tiergarten
Cecil Taylor: Leaf Palm Hand
Peter Kowald: Duos
Pavement: Wowwie Zowie
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Fishbone: The Reality Of My Surroundings
Funkadelic: Let's Take It To The Stage
Sonic Youth: Sister
Björk: Post
Jean-Paul Bourelley: Saints And Sinners
Ronald Shannon Jackson: Barbecue Dog
Henry Threadgill: Rag, Bush and All
Henry Threadgill: Song Out Of My Trees
John Coltrane: Meditations
John Coltrane: Interstellar Space
AMM: Newfoundland
Joni Mitchell: Mingus
Michael Hedges: Live On The Double Planet
Eric Dolphy: Last Date
Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch
Charles Mingus: The Great Paris Concert 1964
Charles Mingus: Mingus Presents Mingus
Steve Lacy: Clangs
Duke Ellington: Money Jungle
Reducing the roster to twenty-five items already feels restrictive. The selections are of course subjective. Still, these albums would furnish years of satisfying listening.
Desert Island List
Ornette Coleman: Science Fiction
Cecil Taylor: Alms/Tiergarten
Cecil Taylor: Leaf Palm Hand
Peter Kowald: Duos
Pavement: Wowwie Zowie
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Fishbone: The Reality Of My Surroundings
Funkadelic: Let's Take It To The Stage
Sonic Youth: Sister
Björk: Post
Jean-Paul Bourelley: Saints And Sinners
Ronald Shannon Jackson: Barbecue Dog
Henry Threadgill: Rag, Bush and All
Henry Threadgill: Song Out Of My Trees
John Coltrane: Meditations
John Coltrane: Interstellar Space
AMM: Newfoundland
Joni Mitchell: Mingus
Michael Hedges: Live On The Double Planet
Eric Dolphy: Last Date
Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch
Charles Mingus: The Great Paris Concert 1964
Charles Mingus: Mingus Presents Mingus
Steve Lacy: Clangs
Duke Ellington: Money Jungle
Reducing the roster to twenty-five items already feels restrictive. The selections are of course subjective. Still, these albums would furnish years of satisfying listening.
Singles
