Steve Argüelles

English jazz drummer and producer

Steve Argüelles

Background information
Birth name	Stephen Argüelles Clarke
Born	(1963-11-16) 16 November 1963 (age 60)
Origin	Crowborough, Sussex, England
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Drummer, Producer, Record Label boss
Instrument(s)	drums
Labels	Plush

Website	Plush

Musical artist

Steven Argüelles Crook^[1] (born 16 November 1963) is an English jazz drummer, producer and is the proprietor of the Plush record label.^[2] He has also worked in film and theatre. He is the elder brother of saxophonist Julian Argüelles. Stephen currently lives in Paris, France.

Life and career

Argüelles was born in Crowborough, East Sussex and raised in Birmingham.^[1] From the age of 16, when he became the house drummer at Ronnie Scott's, through his seminal work as a founder of the 1980s group Loose Tubes, and his work with Django Bates in the early Human Chain, he has shown an innovation beyond the usual role of the drummer.^[3]

Argüelles has collaborated with folk singer Corin Curschellas and John Wolf Brennan of Switzerland and with Nguyên Lê. He also plays in a trio with Benoît Delbecq and Noël Akchoté : The Recyclers. With Benoit Delbecq and electric bassist Christophe Minck, he also played with the French male pop singer Katerine on two albums; Les Créatures (1999) and Huitième Ciel (2002), and a lot of concerts in Europe.^{[citation needed]}

Selected discography

1990 – Steve Argüelles
1994 – Busy Listening
1994 – Blue Moon in a Function Room
1997 – Recyclers – Circuit
1998 – Circuit
1998 – Indigo, Ig Henneman Tentet with Tristan Honsinger, Ab Baars, Theo Jörgensmann, a.o.
2004 – We da man!, Ambitronix (with Benoit Delbecq)
2005 – I.N.I.T.I.A.L..S. with John Wolf Brennan, Christy Doran and Urs Leimgruber

References

^ ^a ^b "Steve Argüelles". Allmusic. Rovi. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
^ "the Plush record label, Paris & London". Plush-internet.org. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^ Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London, UK: Penguin Books. p. 17. ISBN 0-141-00646-3.