Who is 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 an improvisational instrument.

Steig studied flute with Paige Brook of 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, 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.

The recent CD Pterodactyl presents music performed by a band of flutes and bottles, all of which are played by Jeremy. The idea of creating a solo band came to him some 20 years ago. Since then, he has perfected the technique of tonguing over the tops of empty bottles to create unique percussive sounds. He also engineered this CD himself, which resulted in unique editing and mixing that feature the surprising tones and funky rhythms that can be created by using bottles as wind drums. Intervals between tunes are cut relatively short to provide the listener with a 45-minute journey through a land of flutes.

The title "Pterodactyl" was inspired by an incident from about five years ago. A young jazz-schooled pianist told Jeremy that he was a dying breed. He wrote the tune “Pterodactyl,” imagining an ancient creature that became extinct coming back and flying freely over modern windmills.
Jeremy believes that flutes can play any section of the band. Pterodactyl is dedicated to all the young flute players who are doing exciting things with the instrument. This is his contribution to the world of flute music.


HIGHLIGHTS
1969 Grammy Nomination What’s New

Jazz Forum (The Magazine of the International Jazz Federation)
Top People Poll
1978 World No.1 Flutist
1980 World No.1 Flutist
1982 World No.1 Flutist

DOWNBEAT
Critics Poll
1978 No. 3 Flutist

Jazz & Pop
Best International Artists
1970 Best Pop Flutist
1971 Best Pop Flutist

ASIFA EAST Animation Awards
1986 Best Film The Amazing Bone
1987 Second Prize Baby Oysters


DISCOGRAPHY (Album Cover Images & Detailed Discography)
1963 Flute Fever CBS SONY
Denny Zeitlin, Ben Tucker, Ben Riley

1968 Jeremy & The Satyrs Reprise
Warren Bernhardt, Adrian Guillery, Donald MacDonald, Eddie Gomez

1969 Legwork Solid State
Don Alias, Sam Brown, Eddie Gomez

1969 This Is Jeremy Steig Solid State
Warren Bernhardt, Donald MacDonald, Glen Moore

1969 Jazz Wave Ltd., On Tour Blue Note
Kenny Burrell, Freddie Hubbard, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis Orchestra, Jimmy McGriff

1970 Wayfaring Stranger Blue Note
Eddie Gomez, Don Alias, Sam Brown

1970 Energy Capitol
Jan Hammer, Eddie Gomez, Gene Perla, Don Alias

1972 Fusion (Something Else) Groove
Jan Hammer, Gene Perla, Eddie Gomez, Don Alias

1974 Monium Columbia
Eddie Gomez, Ray Mantilla, Marty Morrell

1974 Flute Summit Atlantic
James Moody, Sahib Shibab, Chris Hinze, Joachim Kuhn, John Lee,
Aldo Romano, Ivanir Mandrake do Nascimento

1975 Temple of Birth Columbia
Johnny Winter, Richie Beirach, Anthony Jackson

1976 Leaving Trio
Richie Beirach

1976 Outlaws [live] Enja
Eddie Gomez

1977 Firefly CTI
Steve Gadd, Ray Mantilla

1978 Lend Me Your Ears CMP
Eddie Gomez, Joe Chambers

1978 Music for Flute & Double-Bass CMP
Eddie Gomez

1980 Rain Forest CMP
Eddie Gomez, Mike Nock, Steve Gadd, Jack DeJohnette, Ray Baretto,
Karl Ratzer, Nana Vasconcelos

1992 Jigsaw Triloka
Joe Chambers

2002 What's New at F 3361*Black
Eddie Gomez, Jimmy Cobb, Stefan Karlsson

2003 JAM
Eddie Gomez

2004 IMPROVISED
Vic Juris

2005 Flute on the Edge
Vic Juris, Cameron Brown, Anthony Pinciotti

2007 Pterodactyl
Jeremy Steig (Solo album)

2008 Howlin' for Judy Blue Note
Jeremy Steig, Eddie Gomez, Don Alias


FLUTE
Jazz Meets the Folk Song (1964) The Paul Winter Sextet Columbia
Scavenger (1968) Nat Adderley
Something Else Agai (1968) Richie Havens Verve Forecast
What's New (1969) Bill Evans Verve
Beverly Glenn-Copeland (1969) GRT
Kathy Smith (1969) Stormy Forest
Still Alive and Well (1973) Johnny Winter Columbia
Nick Holmes (1973) Just Sunshine
Feeling the Space (1973) Yoko Ono Plastic Band & Something Different ARI
Mama Kuku (1974) Association P.C.
Unfinished Masterpiece (1975) Eddie Palmieri Coco
Hank Crawford's Back (1976) Hank Crawford
Melting Pots (1976) Susie Monick ARI
Tico Rico (1976) Hank Crawford KUDU
The Fox (1977) Urbie Green CTI
Turn This Mutha Out (1977) Idris Muhammad KUDU
Crawl Space (1977) Art Farmer CTI
Towering Toccata (1977) Lalo Schifrin CTI
Boogie to the Top (1978) Idris Muhammad KUDU
Mantilla (1978) Ray Mantilla Produced by Jeremy Steig InnerCity
Hip Address (1980) David Earle Johnson CMP
Route Two (1981) David Earle Johnson, John Abercrombie, Dan Wall Landslide
Taking Off poetry & jazz (1981) Barry Wallenstein AK•BA
Tom Lellis (1981) Tom Lellis InnerCity
Richard P. Havens, 1983 (1983) Richie Havens Verve Forecast
To Be So Far Away (1984) Rodolfo Alchourron with Southern Exposure T.T. Records
Illumination (1989) Walter Davis, Jr.
Best of Art Farmer (1990) Art Farmer
Brooklyn Blues (1990) Danny Gottlieb
Next Future (1992) Eddie Gomez
Best of Verve Bill Evans (1995)
From the Archives, Vol. 1 (1996) Tommy Bolin
Complete Bill Evans on Verve (1997) Bill Evans
Dedication (1997) Eddie Gomez King Records
From the Archives, Vol. 2 (1998) Tommy Bolin
Uptown Music (1998) Eddie Gomez King Records
Southern Exposure (2003) Tom Lellis Adventure Music



JEREMY STEIG as an artist
Jeremy was born on September 23, 1942 in Greenwich Village, New York. His father William Steig was a famous cartoonist and his mother Liza was the head of the Art Department at Lesley College. It is not surprising that Jeremy inherited a talent for art from his parents.

The first show was in Woodstock where he showed his oil pastels followed by another entitled Flute and Fantasy in White Plains. Both shows featured the artist's talent as a musician in the openings where he welcomed the guests with his flute performance. He painted murals in all of his three apartments in Manhattan, one of which was shown in the film Jeremy by Joel Friedman in 1969. The film was featured in CBS-TV Camera Three. He also had one-man shows in Israel, Tokyo and recently finished his second exhibit in the West Village, New York.

Jeremy dips his bamboo pens in ink and brushes watercolor filling a blank piece of paper with vigorous lines and vivid colors. In Japan where he is known as a jazz flutist, black ink line drawings are catching on among his fans. His themes cover jazz, humor, love, cats, a little eroticism and with his improvisational drawing skills Jeremy keeps creating his own unique world of fun.