Recordings
“I love your CDs. Beautifully produced and recorded with wonderful and challenging music. I have always been a fan of the ECM label because of their quality and style, the recorded sound and the music. I bought many ECM releases just because I liked the look and what their producers stood for. I have rarely been disappointed. You fit right in that category. You are making music at the very highest level of art, and the artistic photography and design just add to what I hear.”
Jim Cunningham
WQED-FM
Pittsburgh
Here are the recordings I've made.
You can find these at most on line retailers and streaming services, or directly from me ($10) via email: steveolsondrums@hotmail.com. Click on the titles to listen.
Opening A Door, The Other Trio, 2024. Click here to listen to the debut recording of The Other Trio, with Susan Alcorn Lobato and Mark Lysher.
Decorating Time, 2023. Click here to listen to the latest X Trio recording with Todd Marcus and Mark Lysher, on Bandcamp.
Live at An Die Musik, 2023. Tenor saxophonist Derrick Michaels joined me at An Die Musik in Baltimore for a set of free improv playing.
Prairie Sound, 2022. Free improv creations with bass clarinetist Michael Unruh, from Wichita, KS.
The Basement Tapes, 2020-23. Free improv creations with synth player, saxophonist and clarinetist Randy Roach. Recorded in Wichita, KS during the Pandemic Years.
Solo, 2020. Click the title to listen to solo pieces of mine, and duos with Randy Roach, on Bandcamp.
The X Trio: Sunday Dust, 2018. Steve, Mark Lysher bass, Todd Marcus clarinets.
The Ruthless Shapes of Paradise, 2015. Steve, Denman Maroney hyperpiano, Oscar Noriega alto sax and bass clarinet. Nominated for Record of the Year by Avant Music News.
Conversations, 2014. My debut recording, with Dave Ballou trumpet, Andrew Delclos bassoon, Michael Formanek bass, Jarrett Gilgore alto sax, Todd Marcus bass clarinet, Tony Martucci drums. Nominated for Best Jazz Recording of 2014 by the Washington Area Musicians Association.
Here are the recordings I've Executive Produced.
Alternating Current, 2014. Cosgrove drums, Matthew Shipp piano, William Parker bass.
Conversations with Owls, 2015. Cosgrove drums, Frank Kimbrough piano, Martin Wind bass.
Long Street Charm, 2009. Martucci drums, Bill Heid Hammond B3 organ, Lyle Link tenor sax, Geoff Reecer guitar.
Life in Hand, 2011. Martucci drums, Marc Copland piano, John D’Earth trumpet, Tom Baldwin bass.