Results for "bass, acoustic"

Vincent Hsu

Born: April 13, 1977

Vincent (Tsung-Yu) Hsu was born in Changhua, Taiwan, and grew up in Kaoushiung. He moved to New York in 2002 to pursue his master’s degree in TESOL at The City College of the City University of New York (CCNY). Meanwhile, he began studying acoustic bass with legendary musicians, including Cecil McBee, Victor Venegas, Andy González, and John Schaeffer (former Principal Bassist for the New York Philharmonic). After receiving his master's degree, Vincent was accepted into the undergraduate jazz program at CCNY, where he studied with the world-renowned bassist, John Patitucci. Vincent received his bachelor's degree in Jazz Performance from CCNY in 2008

Alan Shutaro Maguire

Born: March 19, 1996

Imagine identical, musically inclined identical twins growing up in Hong Kong, where they seldom heard jazz, and then at 15 moving with their Japanese mother and American father to musically rich Memphis. Imagine these boys falling head over heels for jazz to the point of devoting their young lives to it—and then, during one of their regular visits to their grandmother in Japan, creating an enthusiastic following for the music in a town that had never been exposed to it. But that’s not all, folks. Imagine drummer Carl Maguire and bassist Alan Maguire going into the studio with Memphis legend Donald Brown, barely into their twenties, and recording an topflight album with the likes of tenor saxophonist Gregory Tardy, trumpeter Bill Mobley, and pianist Aaron Goldberg. It has indeed been a charmed, storybook life for the Maguire Twins, who at 21 have more worldly experience than many musicians acquire in a lifetime

Volkan Topakoğlu

Born: November 9, 1986

Istanbulite bassist, composer and educator Volkan Topakoğlu made his debut with his album ‘Birdenbire’. Playing the keyboard and the guitar by ten, Volkan started his formal education in music studying cello and piano at Avni Akyol High School of Music and Arts in Istanbul. At fourteen he was influenced by his bass guitarist brother and started to listen to jazz records and play the bass guitar. He continued his education in music at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, studying electric bass and double bass with Kâmil Erdem. After graduation Volkan attended private lessons and workshops of bassists Jacek Meira-Niedziela, Bronislaw Suchanek, Drew Gress, Carlo DeRosa

Csuhaj-Barna Tibor

Born: September 21, 1964

Tibor Csuhaj-Barna was born in Dunajvaros ( Hungary ) at the age of 8-13 he received classical piano lessons.1979 began to play electric gitar and slowly moved to play electric bass. From 1987 to 1990 he studied jazz double bass at the jazz department of Bela Bartok Conservatory , and from 1994 at the Jazz Departement of Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. He’s teacher was BalazsBerkes. He was a member of many outstanding bands in the past 20 years, such as the Binder Trio, Brass Age, Regos Quartet,, etc. Besides jazz, he also played folk music for 13 years in the Vasmalom Band. He ha had successful performances at many folk festivals throughout the world. He is a double bass and bass.guitar teacher of the jazz department of Bela Bartok Music Secondary School and Aladár Tóth Music School, jazz double bass teacher of Ferenc Liszt Music Academy , Budapest. Csuhaj-Barna has performed with Mike Zwerin, John Tchicai, Nicolas Simione, Sorin Romanescu,Karoly Binder, Gyorgy Szabados, Ravi, Hamish Moore, Mihaly Dresch, Mircea Tiberian, Robin Asheroy,Maurice de Martin, Kalman Olah in order to name some. He has performed in the following festivals and concert venues: Shetland Festival , Jersey Music Festival (UK), Tokyo, Osaka, Mie, Yamamoto, Miyako-island, Kyoto, Niigata, ( Japan) , Hapavesi Festival, Rakkyla Festival (Finland), San Sebastian, Madrid, Oviedo festival, Bilbao, S. de Compostela, ( Spain ), Lisbon, Braga, Gimares, Evora, V.de Castello, Azores-islands ( Portugal), Glasgow, Edinborough (Scotland), Skagen festival (Danmark), Dranouter festival (Belgium), Dunaufest (Austria),Sf. Georghe, Bukarest Hungarian Cultural Center(Romania), Berlin Hungarian Cultural Center ( Germany),Belgrade (Serbia), Andorra U.S.A. Hungarian Houses ( Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego) 2016: Triapani Music Festival, Sicily (ITA)2016: Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Mitzpe-Ramon2018: Tallinn (EST)
2018: Rovigo (ITA)

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Mauricio Dawid

Born: July 10, 1985

Dawid is a graduate of the Instituto Superior de Música Popular and the now- legendary jazz program of the Conservatorio Superior “Manuel de Falla”, a 100% free state funded school directed by pianist Ernesto Jodos that has revolutionized the way jazz had been taught in Buenos Aires. He also studied double bass with Hernán Merlo, Javier Dragún (Soloist of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires) and Jerónimo Carmona, and electric bass with Carlos Madariaga and Gustavo Giles. Internationally he has taken classes with North American double bass players John Hèbert, Mark Helias, Scott Colley, Linda Oh, Harish Raghavan and Ben Street

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Will Lyle

Will Lyle (born 1994) is an upright and electric bassist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and producer from Orange County, California and based in Los Angeles. A year after graduating from Berklee College of Music, he toured with GRAMMY award-winning drummer Billy Kilson's quartet to Japan in 2017. After a year of playing in Los Angeles, he became a member of the hard bop pianist Jon Mayer's trio (alumnus of John Coltrane, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, and others) with Roy McCurdy (of Cannonball Adderley's group) on drums. He has since also performed with Ralph Peterson, Bob Sheppard, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Pasquale Grasso, Ralph Moore, Joshua Breakstone, Randy Napoleon, Clayton Cameron, Gerry Gibbs, Erena Terakubo, Ricky Woodard, Steve Hass, Barbara Morrison (with John Stephens' Big Bluzzy Band), Melissa Morgan, Francisco Torres, Joey Sellers/Ben Clatworthy's System VI, Ron Escheté, Jackie Ryan, Jonathan Pinson (with Ian Buss at Dizzy's in San Diego), Gary Matsumoto, John Storie, Ilya Serov, Lizzie and the Triggermen, Lia Booth, Tony Guerrero, Kevin Kanner, Mikan Zlatkovich, Gilbert Castellanos, Peter Sprague, Gene Jackson, Jacques Lesure, Lawrence Leathers, Miki Yamanaka, Barry Minnifield (The Voice), Eric Reed (with Gaslamp Quarter Orchestra), Victory Boyd, Art of Verse, and Sumerian Records artist Bones UK

Henk de Laat

Born: January 10, 1961

Bass player and vocalist Henk de Laat studied with honours at the Rotterdam Conservatory where he graduated as a master in jazz and contemporary music in 1987. He completed his classical bass studies in 1988. Then he studied vocals with Deborah Brown and Ge Titulaer for two years. Later he developed his voice with the aid of Henry Chef d’Horge from Paris who taught him a natural and organic way of singing. He is currently in a vocal study program with Rhiannon, teacher at the Berklee College of Music, Boston. In 1980 Henk started his musical career with a band called X-tra, playing ska- music

Bruce Wallace

During his busy career, Bruce has played not only the role of consummate side man, but being the superb bassist that he is, he can also solo, and has led and managed both jazz and rock ‘n’ roll groups. Early on, he served as the sound engineer on several projects for a recording studio in Los Angeles, and also did some producing for “Fat Chance Recording.” He has played on many jingles and demo recordings for various artists, and more recently he co-produced and performed in a jazz CD entitled “Soiree”. Bruce was born in Pittsburgh, studied trombone privately in high school, and eventually majored in trombone and minored in bass at Duquesne University School of Music