Results for "bass, acoustic"

Carmen Rothwell

Born: February 28, 1992

Carmen Rothwell is a person who plays bass and lives in New York City. Her first 24.5 years of life were spent in Seattle, where she ate and slept and did most of her homework and always made sure to play with her cats. She also played bass with a variety of excellent people, mostly jazz-ish or improvised- type music but sometimes other things too. Through college and beyond, she gigged often with the various bands/projects that she was in with her friends. Some of those bands (such as Tyrant Lizard and The Sky is a Suitcase) still play and record! Carmen also got to play with many of the non-millennial musicians who were on the scene in Seattle or just passing through, including Cuong Vu, Bill Frisell, Billy Hart, Ted Poor, Wayne Horvitz, and Wally Shoup. She moved to NYC in September of 2016, where she has been working on maintaining her person-ness

George Kaye

Esat Ekincioğlu

Born: July 3, 1990

Esat Ekincioglu (Istanbul, 1990) is a Turkish/Dutch bass player, improviser, composer and manager based in Groningen, the Netherlands. A versatile and in-demand bass player, Esat spends much of the year on the road, playing throughout Europe, the Near East and China. Tens of tours and nearly 1000 shows in 31 countries include Jazzhead, Jazzfest Saalfelden, Shanghai World Music Fest, Jazz in Duketown, JazzJantar, Nisville Jazzfest and many more. 

Apart from his successful bands KUHN FU and AVA Trio, his newly premiered band Esat Ekincioglu’s Turkish Pumpkin, Esat likes to play solo and in duos where he explores unknown areas of double bass playing, improvisation and microtonal music. 

Bhagwan Khalsa

Born: January 24

Bassist Bhagwan Khalsa, one of the most sought-after acoustic bassists in the DC area, is currently a member of the Eric Byrd Trio. His original arrangements are essential to shaping the sound of the trio, and he has recorded on all of the trio’s albums. With the Eric Byrd Trio, Khalsa has traveled extensively around the globe, performing and teaching music, and in 2001, the trio had the opportunity to travel under the auspices of the US State Department as Jazz Ambassadors. Since 2001, they’ve returned to Peru twice and Bolivia five times; they have performed at the Montreaux Jazz Festival and have toured in Estonia and the United Arab Emirates

Petros Damianidis

Ari Folman-Cohen

An Electric and Upright bassist who dabbles in Synthisizers and Pennywhistle Ari performs in New York City and around the world. Equally at ease in Pop and Rock worlds, Ari tends towards experimental projects as well as many Jazz and World Music collabarations. His solo project navigates the improvisational and textural world of pedals and looping devices,mixing compostion and spur of the moment improvisation into dreamy trance inducing soundscapes or terse disturbing cacophony between ear catching melody. Ari is an eclectic and open minded musician and his reptoire and stylistic approach fuse the varied expierences he finds himself in

David Picchi

Peter Marsh

Born: August 6, 1962

Bassist and occasional lap steel guitar/electronics stumbling around the margins of jazz, improv, folk, avant rock and electronica. Member of Fourth Page, Elvers, Sonnamble, Found Drowned, Woven Entity etc. Has played with - Lol Coxhill, Paul Rutherford, Steve Beresford, David Toop, Rhodri Davies, John Coxon, Mark Sanders, Pete Flood, Ashley Wales, Tony Bevan, Klaus Filip, Martin Siewert, Robert Dick, Gareth Sager, Karl Blake, Adam Bohman, Roger Turner, Tom Chant and so on...

Ratchet Orchestra

The eclectic astounding and sometimes mystifying Ratchet Orchestra continue to attract attention with the release of their third recording Hemlock. Recorded by Godspeed you! Black Emperor bassist Thierry Amar and released on the Vancouver label Drip Audio, The Ratchet Orchestra is a who's who of Montreal's edgiest musicians. Director Nicolas Caloia's compositions provide a structure to showcase fierce talents like Tom Walsh, Jean Derome, Lori Freedman, Sam Shalabi, and Christopher Cauley. The Ratchet Orchestra has existed since the early 1990s when Caloia started experimenting with improvised chamber jazz

Dorothea May