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Jeremy Steig

In his entire career as an improvisational flutist Steig has challenged the boundaries of conventional categories in music. In his first album Flute Fever (Columbia Records 1963) Steig established himself as one of the most important voices in contemporary music, setting new standards in the performance and appreciation of the flute as improvisational instrument.

Steig's openness to all kinds of music is the key that attracts audience to his music. In his newest CD, Steig teams up as a duo with the prominent guitarist and composer, Vic Juris. Their collaboration covers everything from jazz, blues, rock, free music and even some classical pieces that have been reworked to include improvisation. Improvised, Steig and Juris' first CD together, is a dynamic sonic adventure. They have been invited to the 2004 Yokohama Jazz Promenade, one of the biggest jazz festivals held in Japan.

Steig has also been active as Free Folk, a trio with Perry Robinson (clarinet) and Ed Schuller (bass). The music they play contains elements of folk, classical and jazz.

Steig studied flute with Paige Brook, who played in the New York Philharmonic. He went on to study at the High School of Music and Art in New York. Paige encouraged Steig to play "jazz" while providing him with classical tools. Emerging as a leader of the first jazz-rock band, "Jeremy and the Satyrs," followed by the release of What's New (Verve 1969) with the legendary Bill Evans, proved Steig's versatility as a young musician.

Steig has played and recorded with a wide variety of musicians, such as Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, Jim Hall, Big Joe Williams, Junior Wells, Eddie Gomez, David Amram, Art Blakey, Paul Bley, Joe Chambers, Jan Hammer, Johnny Winter and Tommy Bolin. The Beastie Boys have shaped their hit Sure Shot around Steig's flute.

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Radio & Podcasts

February 50th Anniversary Blue Notes & More

Read "February 50th Anniversary Blue Notes & More" reviewed by Marc Cohn


This week on Gift & Messages we mark 50th anniversary of Blue Note releases from February 1970 by flautist Jeremy Steig (Wayfaring Stranger with Eddie Gomez on bass), McCoy Tyner (Extensions with Wayne Shorter, Gary Bartz and Alice Coltrane), and Duke Pearson (I Don't Care Who Knows It), as well as BN-18 from Edmond Hall with Charlie Christian. Along the way timeless Charlie Parker (Savoy 936, if you're keeping score) and Sam Rivers, as well as 21st century music from ...

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Album Review

Jeremy Steig: Flute Fever

Read "Flute Fever" reviewed by Carlo Wolff


Jeremy Steig's astonishing, trailblazing debut finally gets its compact disk due, 50 years after Columbia released it on vinyl. It was also the debut of Denny Zeitlin, a Bay Area psychiatrist whose singularly imaginative jazz moonlighting has resulted in numerous fearless disks over the past five decades. Backed by veterans Ben Riley on drums and Ben Tucker on bass, the fervent Steig and the marginally less impulsive, if no less creative, Zeitlin alternate standards with classics- to-be by Thelonious Monk, ...

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Jeremy Steig: Flute Fever

Read "Flute Fever" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Flute Fever, the 1963 Columbia Records debut by flutist Jeremy Steig, has somehow, until now, avoided release on CD. Thanks to reissue producer Jonathan Horwich, Steig's beautifully remastered and packaged freshman recording is now available. And it's not only Steig's premier as a recording artist, it's also a recording first for pianist Denny Zeitlin, on a quartet that's rounded out by veterans Ben Riley on drums, and Ben Tucker on bass. It's a blowing session--no group rehearsal, just ...

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Jeremy Steig: Flute On The Edge

Read "Flute On The Edge" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Flute On The Edge is a thoroughly enjoyable, if somewhat predictable, jazz release by a flute-led jazz quartet. Jeremy Steig addresses the issue of flute as jazz instrument slightly differently than Francois Richard did on his recent album Ad Infinitum (Effendi, 2006). Most, if not all flute players seem to have the deep need to add vibrato on any note longer than an eighth note. This tick, when added to the flute's natural breathiness, can be grating, at least to ...

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Album Review

Jeremy Steig/Vic Juris: Improvised

Read "Improvised" reviewed by Paul Olson


Improvised, the debut duet album from super-veteran flautist Jeremy Steig and almost-as-seasoned guitarist Vic Juris, is just that: an album of almost completely improvised material. Recorded in Steig's home (don't be put off by that, by the way, because home recording has come a long, long way) in a situation where the two musicians played in separate rooms, connected only by headphones to each other, it's spontaneous musical communication of the highest order.The album consists of 22 invented-on-the-spot ...

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Profile

Jeremy Steig

Read "Jeremy Steig" reviewed by Celeste Sunderland


Artist/flutist Jeremy Steig colored some drawings in a cozy corner of his apartment one night last month, when he spilled a jar of ink. Not a pleasant mess, especially with Frac, Steig's gigantic cat pawing around. So the artist “banished" himself back to his drawing table covered with bamboo pens and Steig Ink (Uncle Arthur invented it). This past February, an armful of Steig's profusely colorful illustrations livened up the Cornelia Street Café's stark white walls. One ...

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Dave Liebman: John Coltrane's Meditations

Read "John Coltrane's Meditations" reviewed by AAJ Staff


When it comes seeing how adventurous a person is, John Coltrane's late period is one of the things that separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls. From 1965 until his death in 1967, Trane offered the most atonal of free jazz-and his music became so blistering that even some of his most ardent admirers shy away from his late period. But what frightens others is a challenge that Dave Liebman accepts with this CD, which ...

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Obituary

Jeremy Steig, 1942-2016

Jeremy Steig, 1942-2016

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

Flutist Jeremy Steig died on April 13 at his home in Japan. He was 73. His death wasconfirmed days after the fact. “He didn’t like to read about musicians’ deaths in newspaper obituaries,” his wife Asako told The New York Times. “He wanted me to delay the announcement of his death, so that it wouldn’t really be ‘news’ to be written up.” Unlike most jazz flutists, Steig (pictured circa 1965) did not make his instrument secondary to the saxophone; he ...

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Book / Magazine

Jeremy Steig's New Digital Picture Books with Soundtrack

Jeremy Steig's New Digital Picture Books with Soundtrack

Source: Jeremy Steig

The new digital picture books (for viewing on your computer display) by Jeremy Steig feature his drawings and music and are available for download from DL-MARKET, one of Japan's biggest digital content markets. These picture books can be a great way to introduce jazz to children, and also a wonderful opportunity to enjoy Jeremy's art and music with original stories by Asako. The picture books are sold at the Coffee Break Theater of Jeremy's website. Each digital picture book runs ...

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Performance / Tour

Tony Malaby/Mark Helias (Fri) Jeremy Steig Trio (Sat) Sam Sadigursky's Word Project (Sun) & More This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe

Tony Malaby/Mark Helias (Fri) Jeremy Steig Trio (Sat) Sam Sadigursky's Word Project (Sun) & More This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St. This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe Fri Sep 14 9:00PM & 10:30PM ONY MALABY/MARK HELIAS (Tony Malaby, saxophone;Mark Helias, bass) Sat Sep 15 9:00PM & 10:30PM JEREMY STEIG ...

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Jeremy Steig Trio (Fri) Rez Abbasi's Bazaar (Sat) Ernesto Cervini Quartet (Sun) at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Jeremy Steig Trio (Fri) Rez Abbasi's Bazaar (Sat) Ernesto Cervini Quartet (Sun) at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St. This Weekend At The Cornelia Street Cafe Fri Mar 09 9:00PM & 10:30PM JEREMY STEIG TRIO (Jeremy Steig, flute;Cameron Brown, bass;Anthony Pinciotti, drums) Come and hear the HOTTEST jazz flutist playing in NY. Jeremy Steig has played with Bill Evans, Art Blakey, ...

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Jeremy Steig Qt (Tonight) Morrison Motel (Tue) Tony Malaby Qnt (Sat) & George Dulin (Sun) at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Jeremy Steig Qt (Tonight) Morrison Motel (Tue) Tony Malaby Qnt (Sat) & George Dulin (Sun) at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz

October 14, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe Oct. 14 thg Oct. 16 Fri ...

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Jeremy Steig Quartet Friday Oct. 14 9:00 and 10:30 p.m. Cornelia St Cafe

Jeremy Steig Quartet Friday Oct. 14  9:00 and 10:30 p.m. Cornelia St Cafe

Source: All About Jazz

October 6, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 Friday Oct. 14; 9:00 and 10:30 p.m. Jeremy Steig Quartet NEW CD ...

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Jeremy Steig Quartet (Tonight) Malaby/Sanchez/ Rainey Trio (Sat) This Weekend at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Jeremy Steig Quartet (Tonight) Malaby/Sanchez/ Rainey Trio (Sat) This Weekend at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz

September 9, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe Sept. 9 thg Sept. 11 Fri ...

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Jeremy Steig/Vic Juris Duo (Tonight!)/Schizoid Music/ Poetry & More This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe

Jeremy Steig/Vic Juris Duo (Tonight!)/Schizoid Music/ Poetry & More This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz

July 15, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe Friday Jul 15 6:00PM PINK PONY ...

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Jeremy Steig & Vic Juris Duo at Cornelia Street Cafe (Friday, July 15th) Sets at 8:30 & 10:30PM

Jeremy Steig & Vic Juris Duo at Cornelia Street Cafe (Friday, July 15th) Sets at 8:30 & 10:30PM

Source: All About Jazz

July11, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 Come hear the standards and free music by the flute and acoustic guitar ...

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Jeremy Steig Quartet at Cornelia Street Cafe Fri Mar 11 9:00PM

Jeremy Steig Quartet at Cornelia Street Cafe Fri  Mar 11 9:00PM

Source: All About Jazz

March 11, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 Fri Mar 11 JEREMY STEIG QUARTET Jeremy Steig, flute; Vic Juris, guitar; Cameron Brown, bass; Anthony Pinciotti, drums Come and hear the HOTTEST jazz flutist playing in NY. Jeremy Steig has played with Bill Evans, ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

John Coltrane's...

Arkadia Records
2022

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Flute Fever

IPO Recordings
2014

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Flute Fever

IPO Recordings
2013

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Howlin'For Judy

HighNote
2008

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Flute On The Edge

Steig Music Company
2006

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Improvised

Steig Music Company
2004

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