Steve Cardenas

Steve Cardenas is a guitarist who has been a fixture of the New York jazz scene since 1995. He came up in his hometown of Kansas City before moving to New York, where he became a longstanding member of the Paul Motian Electric Bebop Band and went on to play in groups led by Charlie Haden, Steve Swallow, and Joey Baron. He is also a respected educator, serving on the jazz faculty of The New School, and co-edited the Thelonious Monk Fakebook, the first single volume to collect all of Monk's compositions. He has recorded a number of albums as a leader.