SUSAN ALCORN
Jazz Related Improv/Composition / Avant-Garde Jazz / 21st Century Modern • United States
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Susan Alcorn began playing the pedal steel guitar over 25 years ago, and in that time has evolved into a musician/composer of such rare inspiration that her music has redefined, for many, the very perception of the instrument itself.
As a child in the 1950's and 1960's she was surrounded by the big-band music that her parents listened to as well as the pop music that blared on her radio. She picked up the guitar when she was thirteen, and soon began playing slide guitar (inspired in particular by Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Son House) and dobro (her favorites were Mike Auldridge, Josh Graves, and Tut Taylor). A few years later, she began playing the pedal steel guitar and performed regularly with country-western bands in Texas.
Although Alcorn's initial work with pedal steel focused on the styles of the players usually associated with it - namely, country and western swing, she
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Uma
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2000
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Sur
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2002
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Curandera
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2003
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Soledad
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2015
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Evening Tales
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2016
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In-Yu
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2024
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Concentration
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2004
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2.14.15
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2016
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