Results for "bass, acoustic"

Ryan Bartz

Born: July 12, 1986

Ryan Bartz is currently teaching 3rd and 4th grade orchestra in a Berks County public school. Ryan is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education and a Bachelor's Degree in Bass Performance, studying with Jim Miller. Bartz is currently persuing a Master's Degree in Music Education with a performance concentrate. While still relatively new to the Lehigh Valley, Ryan has performed at a few local venues.

Xavier Dutoit

Born, ate, played, to be continued...

Yoshi Waki

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Born in Fukuoka, Japan, Yoshi began to play jazz bass at age of 20. After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, he joined the National Tour Company of Fosse, a Tony Awarded musical show and traveled around the States before settling in New York City, where he quicky established himself as a sought-after sideman. Yoshi have worked with Art Hirahara, Artie Shaw Orchestra, Ayako Shirasaki, Bill Mobley, Bill Ware, Chihiro Yamanaka, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Dan Zanes and Friends, Danny Walsh, Deborah Harry, Elena Moon Park, Frank Vignola, Harry Whitaker, John Di Martino, Marion Cowings, Paquito D’Rivera, Victor Jones, Peter Leitch’s New Life Orchestra, Randy Johnston, Richard Stoltzman, Ron Affif, Sam Dillon, Saul Rubin, Shunzo Ohno, Tokiko Kato, Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra, William Galison, and others.

Andrew Read

Born: May 1, 1960

Andrew Read studied double bass at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne (Australia). After leaving the college in 1981, Andrew began to work professionally in the Australian music scene performing and recording with such diverse artists as jazz singer Vince Jones through to pop band Perfect Strangers. In 1993 Andrew moved to the Netherlands to further his studies in classical double bass at the Conservatorium in Enschede and later with Hans Roelofsen at the Conservatorium in Arnhem. Within a short period after moving to the Netherlands Andrew became established in both the jazz and classical worlds

Pascal Niggenkemper

New York City-based German-French bassist, composer and improviser Pascal Niggenkemper is a performing and recording artist active on the creative music scene in the US and in Europe. From 1999-2005 he was musically active in Cologne having studied jazz & classical double bass at the Hochschule für Musik. In 2005 he received the DAAD award and moved to New York. From 2008 to 2010 Pascal led the PNTrio with Tyshawn Sorey and Robin Verheyen. (CD "pasàpas" Konnex 2008 & “urban creatures” JazzHausMusik 2010). The trio toured extensively in Europe performing at the Jazzcologne Festival, Jazzherbst Konstanz and at the Kennedy Center in Washington

Jef Charland

Kris Funn

Born: January 7

Kristopher Funn was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He began playing the trumpet at age four and took up the double bass at age 14 upon entering high school. Through the instruction of his father, Charles Funn, Kristopher performed his first professional bass gig the same year he began learning the instrument. Other early accomplishments included winning the “unsung hero” at the Fish Middleton jazz competition at the East Coast Jazz festival also in the first year of instruction. At age 18, Kristopher attended Howard University to study Computer Science while also performing in the Howard University Jazz Ensemble for two years

Thomas Morgan

Dave Baron

Born: February 7, 1988

“In case the listener needs a reminder of how wonderful an upright bass can sound, I hope that they will take the opportunity to listen to Dave Baron.” – Ron Carter Everyone  has a story to tell.  Jazz bassist Dave Baron lets his instrument do the talking. He has demonstrated his skills supporting such jazz luminaries as Eric Reed, Lew Tabackin, Mary Stallings, Peter Bernstein, Walt Weiskopf, Joe Lovano, Jimmy Greene, Bill Dobbins, Wycliffe Gordon, Bruce Barth, and Bill Evans (saxophonist), among others. Dave has collaborated with other artists in countries such as Australia, Russia, Korea, Grand Cayman, and Romania. Dave moved to New York City in 2010 to attend the Juilliard School for his master’s degree

Sabino Paz

Sabino Paz, nacido en Argentina en 1976. En el tocadiscos familiar podia escucharse a Mercedes Sosa, John Coltrane, The Beatles o Astor Piazzolla. En 1992 comienza tocando el bajo eléctrico. En 1998 se acerca al contrabajo, con el que participa en grupos de jazz, candombe, folklore latinoamericano y tango. En 2005 se muda México, primero a Los Cabos y más tarde al Distrito Federal, donde toca con grupos de jazz y de música popular. Estudió bajo eléctrico con Javier Malosetti, y contrabajo con Hernán Merlo, Juan Elias, Horacio Cobarcos, Agustin Bernal, Bob Magnusson, John Lokwood, Dave Santoro y Ben Street.