Trey Gunn (born December 13, 1960) is an American musician, known for being in the progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003. He plays Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick instruments.
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| Background information | |
| Born | December 13, 1960 |
| Genres | Experimental, art rock, jazz fusion, progressive rock, progressive metal, world music |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Warr guitar, Chapman Stick, bass guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Labels | 7D Media |
| Website | treygunn |
Biography
editA native Texan who now resides in New Mexico, Gunn began playing classical piano when he was 7. He has also played electric bass, electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, and the touch guitar. He moved to Eugene, Oregon and played in punk bands while earning a degree in classical music composition at the University of Oregon.[1] Next, he moved to New York City and began a professional career in music.
For a while he was a student of Guitar Craft with founder Robert Fripp and appeared on several Robert Fripp as well as the League of Crafty Guitarists recordings. From 1988 to 1991, he toured playing a Chapman Stick in the UK and Europe, with Toyah Willcox, Robert Fripp, and Paul Beavis.
At first he played under the band project name "Fripp, Fripp" who by the second tour became Sunday All Over the World. They recorded and released an album in 1991 entitled Kneeling at the Shrine. In the same year and with the SAOTW lineup, he also played stick on the solo Toyah album Ophelia's Shadow, produced by Toyah who was to later guest on his album, The Third Star. In 1992, Gunn was asked to join David Sylvian and Robert Fripp in a collaborative project that toured the United States, Europe, and Japan. The band released The First Day and Damage–a live recording from the Royal Albert Hall in London. During that period, Gunn also recorded his first solo album One Thousand Years.
In 1992 and 1993 with Fripp, Bert Lams, Hideyo Moriya, and Paul Richards, he toured and recorded as The Robert Fripp String Quintet.[2]
In 1994, Gunn joined King Crimson. With King Crimson he played a Chapman Stick and later diverse types of Warr guitar. He was part of the "double trio" formation opposite Tony Levin. In 1997, King Crimson fragmented into smaller configurations known as the ProjeKcts. Gunn, along with Fripp, participated in all of the ProjeKcts performances and recordings. In 1999, the group mutated into a four-piece–Belew, Fripp, Gunn, and Mastelotto. He left Crimson after "The Power to Believe" tour in 2003. Over the course of a decade with the group, he participated in thirty-three King Crimson CDs, two DVDs, and hundreds of performances.[3]
He has also performed and recorded with a number of other musicians: Tool, Puscifer, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Sean Malone and Gordian Knot, David Sylvian, Vernon Reid, John Paul Jones, Eric Johnson, Jerry Marotta, Alice, Azam Ali, Matt Chamberlain, Michael Brook, Bill Rieflin, David Hykes of the Harmonic Choir and many more. He has released a number of solo albums, as Trey Gunn and as the leader of The Trey Gunn Band.
Years of working with broad-necked instruments like the Warr guitar affected Gunn physically. He has had to seek less damaging playing methods expressing his art.[4] As a result he has been playing the guitar in a horizontal position across his lap. He also has earned a black belt in Aikido from Bruce Bookman and practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu as a 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu brown belt in Santa Fe, NM.
In 2003, Gunn founded the multi-media group Quodia with Joe Mendelson where he has contributed more vocals than in previous projects and less Warr guitar. In 2004, he and Pat Mastelotto started collaborating with Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, forming KTU out of their respective duos, TU and Kluster. In 2012, he began working with Jerry Marotta in the group The Security Project.
In addition to helping run the label 7d Media, he currently works as a solo artist, in film and television scoring, coaching artists in the creative process at Original Voice Coaching, and as a member of the group Tu-Ner [5] with Pat Mastelotto and Markus Reuter. [6]
Discography
editThis section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. (March 2020) |
Solo albums
edit- Playing with Borrowed Time (1985) (cassette)
- One Thousand Years (1993)
- The Third Star (1996)
- Raw Power (1999)
- The Joy of Molybdenum (2000)
- Live Encounter (2001)
- Road Journals (CD-ROM) (2002)
- Untune The Sky (CD/DVD) (2003) (compilation)
- Music for Pictures (2008)
- Modulator (2010)
- I'll Tell What I Saw (2010) (compilation)
- The Waters, They Are Rising (2015)
- Punkt 1 (2020)
- Firma (2020)
- Life on Hisarü 9 (2020) (with Markus Reuter)
Score Books
edit- Trey Gunn - Scores (2014)
- King Crimson - THRAK (2017) (full band transcriptions + tabs)
- King Crimson - The Discipline Era Transcriptions (2020) (full band transcriptions + tabs)
With others
edit| Date | Artist | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Toyah | Ophelia's Shadow |
| 1991 | Sunday All Over the World | Kneeling at the Shrine |
| 1993 | Robert Fripp / California Guitar Trio *as Robert Fripp String Quintet | The Bridge Between |
| 1993 | David Sylvian / Robert Fripp | The First Day |
| 1993 | David Sylvian / Robert Fripp | Darshan |
| 1994 | David Sylvian / Robert Fripp | Damage: Live |
| 1994 | U. Srinivas & Michael Brook | Dream |
| 1994 | King Crimson | Vrooom |
| 1995 | King Crimson | Thrak |
| 1995 | King Crimson | B'Boom: Live in Argentina |
| 1995 | Alice | Charade |
| 1996 | King Crimson | Thrakattak |
| 1996 | Sean Malone | Cortlandt |
| 1999 | ProjeKct One | Live at the Jazz Café |
| 1998 | ProjeKct Two | Space Groove |
| 1999 | ProjeKct Two | Live Groove |
| 1999 | ProjeKct Three | Masque |
| 1999 | ProjeKct Four | West Coast Live |
| 1999 | King Crimson | Déjà Vrooom (DVD) |
| 1999 | King Crimson | The ProjeKcts (4-CD box set) |
| 1999 | King Crimson | The Deception of the Thrush |
| 1999 | Gordian Knot | Gordian Knot |
| 1999 | John Paul Jones | Zooma |
| 1999 | Bill Rieflin / Robert Fripp / Trey Gunn | Birth of a Giant |
| 1999 | Bill Rieflin / Robert Fripp / Trey Gunn | The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior |
| 2000 | ProjeKct X | Heaven and Earth |
| 2000 | King Crimson | The Construkction of Light |
| 2000 | King Crimson | Heavy ConstruKction |
| 2000 | King Crimson | Level Five |
| 2001 | King Crimson | Vrooom Vrooom |
| 2001 | Mike Brannon & Synergy | Barcodes |
| 2002 | TU (Trey Gunn & Pat Mastelotto) | Thunderbird Suite |
| 2002 | King Crimson | Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With |
| 2003 | King Crimson | The Power to Believe |
| 2003 | King Crimson | Eyes Wide Open (DVD) |
| 2003 | King Crimson | EleKtrik: Live in Japan |
| 2003 | TU (Trey Gunn & Pat Mastelotto) | TU |
| 2004 | TU (Trey Gunn & Pat Mastelotto) | Official Bootleg |
| 2005 | KTU | 8 Armed Monkey |
| 2006 | Azam Ali | Elysium for the Brave |
| 2007 | Puscifer | "V" Is for Vagina |
| 2007 | Quodia | The Arrow (CD/DVD) |
| 2007 | Stretching Madness | Escape Plan |
| 2008 | The Season Standard | Squeeze Me Ahead of Line |
| 2008 | UKZ | Radiation |
| 2009 | KTU | Quiver |
| 2009 | N.y.X | Down in Shadows |
| 2010 | Inna Zhelannaya | Cocoon |
| 2011 | TU (Trey Gunn & Pat Mastelotto) | Live in Russia |
| 2011 | Steven Wilson | Grace for Drowning |
| 2011 | Morgan Ågren, Henry Kaiser, Trey Gunn | Invisible Rays |
| 2012 | The Security Project with Jerry Marotta | The Security Project with Jerry Marotta |
| 2014 | Leon Alvarado/Jerry Marotta | Music From An Expanded Universe |
| 2014 | John Crispino | Seconds Before Landing II - Seconds Before Landing |
| 2015 | King Crimson | THRAK (box set) |
| 2015 | Leon Alvarado | Persistence |
| 2016 | N.y.X | The News |
| 2016 | The Security Project | Live 1 |
| 2017 | The Security Project | Live 2 |
| 2017 | The Security Project | CONTACT |
| 2018 | The Deep Energy Orchestra | Playing With Fire |
| 2019 | King Crimson | Heaven & Earth (box set) |
| 2019 | King Crimson | The ReconstruKction of Light (box set) |
| 2019 | The Security Project | Slow Burn |
| 2020 | The Deep Energy Orchestra | The Return |
| 2020 | with Markus Reuter | Life on Hisarü 9 |
| 2023 | with Tu-Ner (w/ Pat Mastelotto and Markus Reuter) | Contact Information |
| 2024 | with Tu-Ner (w/Pat Mastelotto and Markus Reuter) | Tu-Ner For Lovers |
References
edit- ^ "Trey Gunn homepage". Treygunn.com. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ^ "The Robert Fripp String Quintet". Discogs.com. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ "Trey Gunn interview at Guitar World". Guitarworld.com. Retrieved January 4, 2024.
- ^ "Trey Gunn interviews on Outsight Radio Hours". Archive.org. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ^ "Tu-Ner review at All About Jazz". Allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ "Tu-Ner review and info at The Progressive Aspect". Theprogressiveaspect.com. Retrieved August 22, 2023.