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Mark Wade

Born: December 29, 1974

Modern jazz composer and bassist Mark Wade is open to appreciating and co-creating great music in all its forms. Like Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis and Esperanza Spaulding, he’s not limited by genre. His fourth album shows the breadth of his musicality and inventive compositional style. Called "a living work of modern art" by Downbeat Magazine, the original tracks found on his 2022 album True Stories were inspired by a wide range of influences, drawing on themes from composers such as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Igor Stravinsky. The result is a unique expression of jazz linking past to present.

True Stories

By Mark Wade

Label: Mark Wade Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: I Feel More Like I Do Now; Falling Delores; The Soldier and the Fiddle; In the Market; Piscataway Went That-a-Way; A Simple Song; Song with Orange and Other Things, Pt.1; Song With Orange and Other Things, Pt.2; At the Sunside

Pat Metheny, Howard Britz & Charles Goold

by Joe Dimino
May 15, 2022

We start the 751st Episode of Neon Jazz with a relatively new musician that has seen a lot of action in his young life. Drummer Charles Goold kicks things off with a song off his 2022 album Rhythm in Contrast. We also take a look into some new music from veterans of the jazz world in ...

Feel More Like I Do Now

Featuring the music of Mark Wade
Duration: 6:54
March 19, 2022

Bassist Mark Wade Trio Releases 'True Stories'

March 11, 2022

Modern jazz composer and bassist Mark Wade is open to appreciating and co-creating great music in all its forms, and clearly not limited by genre. True Stories, his fourth album, shows the breadth of his musicality and inventive compositional style. Eight original tracks (and one cover) were inspired by a wide range of influences, drawing on ...

Songs From Isolation

Label: AMP Music & Records
Released: 2020

Mark Wade: Songs From Isolation

by Dan Bilawsky
October 30, 2020

Despite the obvious alignment in terms of timing, circumstances and creation, this project didn't simply manifest itself in the moment. Mark Wade has always had a solo bass outing in his sights. He just didn't take firm aim and follow through until now. That belief in patience, ultimately, helped to yield rewards. Rather than work with ...

Take Five with Mark Wade

by Mark Wade
August 19, 2020

Meet Mark Wade Voted one of the top bassists of 2016, 2018, and 2019 in the prestigious Downbeat Magazine Reader's Poll, Mark Wade has been active in the NYC area for over 20 years. His debut album Event Horizon (2015) and follow up release Moving Day (2018) received international acclaim, and Moving Day was picked as ...

Mark Wade Trio At Montpelier Arts Center on March 15, 2019

March 1, 2019

Bassist Mark Wade brings his trio to Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, Maryland for a concert featuring selections from his latest (2018) album, Moving Day. The New York based trio also includes pianist Tim Harrison and drummer Scott Neumann. Voted one of the top 10 bassists of 2018 and 2016 by the prestigious Downbeat Magazine Reader’s ...

Moving Day

By Mark Wade

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Moving Day; Wide Open; The Bells; Another Night in Tunisia; Something of a Romance; Autumn Leaves; Midnight in the Cathedral; The Quarter; In The Fading Rays of Sunlight.