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Adam Neely

Adam Neely is a bassist, composer and YouTuber with an engaged subscriber base of over 1 million people. His educational content explores what music means, and what it means to be a musician. He has appeared on NPR, TEDx, Vox, SiriusXM, SXSW, Ableton Loop, MAGfest, Bass Player Magazine, Electronic Musician Magazine and Ultimate Guitar. His videos cover a wide range of topics in music theory, music cognition, jazz improvisation, musical performance technique, musicology and memes.

Adam graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Jazz Composition from the Berklee College of Music in 2009, and graduated with an MM in Jazz Composition from the Manhattan School of Music in 2012, studying under Jim McNeely. He has since worked as a bass player and educator in New York City with artists like Shubh Saran, Zac Zinger, Aberdeen, the NYChillharmonic, the 8-bit big band, J-Music Ensemble and many others.

Held Together

By Aberdeen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Losing Eurydice (feat. Antonio Sánchez); Where Y'At; Rising Sun; Kyrgyz Jeri; Closing Medley; Sayang Kinabalu; Held Together; Losing Eurydice (Ballad Edit)

Aberdeen Creates Unique Wall of Sound with Album 'Held Together'

February 25, 2023

With its massive, one-of-a-kind sound, Aberdeen is proud to announce the release of its second album Held Together. It’s Aberdeen’s brand of jazz with pop inflections that contributed to their selection in the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad program—in this case a tour to Central Asia—where Aberdeen performed. Held Together includes folk songs from around ...

Losing Eurydice (feat. Antonio Sánchez)

February 18, 2023

Album: Held Together
By Aberdeen
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:38

Aberdeen

Aberdeen is a jazz / indie rock brass band based out of Brooklyn, NY. They create a wall of sound with soaring, horn-driven melodies, supported by a bed of distorted guitars and raucous drums. Brian Plautz is the primary songwriter in the band. The band, featuring saxophones, trombone, trumpet, guitars, bass and drums never ceases to fill a room with energy. Aberdeen's albums Downpour and Held Together showcase their massive, one-of-a-kind sound, featuring Multi Grammy Award-winning drummer Antonio Sánchez (Pat Metheny, Birdman) and bassist Adam Neely, who hosts a 1.6 million+ subscriber music channel on YouTube, as well as Shubh Saran, Jared Yee and many more

inside//outside

By Adam Neely

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2012