About
Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, and Carla Bley. He was one of the first jazz double bassists to switch entirely to electric bass guitar.
Member of
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The Carla Bley Band bass
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The Swallow Quintet bass, eponymous
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Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band electric bass guitar
Discography
Albums
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We Could Be Flying
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Hotel Hello
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Unexpected
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Home Apple Music
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Night-glo
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Duets
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The Life of a Trio: Saturday
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The Life of a Trio: Sunday
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Fly Away Little Bird
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Swallow Apple Music
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Go Together
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Real Book Apple Music
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Conversations With a Goose
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Carla Apple Music
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Deconstructed Apple Music
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Carla Apple Music
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Three Guys
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Always Pack Up Your Uniform On Top
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Brutto Tempo
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Noisy Old Men
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Nostalgia
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>trio<
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Little Poems
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Grey
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Live in Japan, Vol. 2
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New Old Age
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Awakening
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Three For All
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So There
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Two By Two
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Believe in Spring
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Swallow Songs
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Carla’s Christmas Carols
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Playing in Traffic
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Soyeusement - Live in Noirlac
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Agnostic Chant Book
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Right Together
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Trios
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Simple Songs
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Willow: A Jazz Suite
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The New Standard
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Singular Curves
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The Oldest Living Thing
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Andando el tiempo
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Loneliness Road
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To and From the Heart
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You Don’t Know the Life
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Life Goes On
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Swallow Tales
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Over the Rainbow
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Winter Songs Apple Music
Singles
Live
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Quartet Live
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The Lost Chords
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Live in Japan, Vol. 1
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Damaged in Transit
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Have We Told You All You'd Thought To Know?
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Are We There Yet?
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Songs With Legs
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1998-10-31: jazznojazz Festival, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich, Switzerland
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The New Standard Trio: Festival Glatt & Verkehrt, Winzer Krems, 26.07.2015
Compilations
Links
Concerts
Tags
- jazz and blues
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- d94cd4f9-3178-4cc5-9e96-c9306385ffb0
- ISNI
- 0000000114426465
- IPI
- 00269879488
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 11 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.