Results for "bass, acoustic"

Rafal Mazur

Born: June 17, 1971

Rafal Mazur's involvement with music began in his youth with violoncello studies in Krakow. He switched to bass guitar in the late 1980's. Since 2000 he has played an acoustic bass guitar built to his own specifications by luthier Jerzy Wysocki. He has developed an advanced and individual approach to his instrument, and to improvisation in general, in which sonority, extended technique and gesture combine effortlessly in performance. He has taken an important role in Kraków to support young artists and improvised music. A founder of the ImproArt studio of improvisation, he has performed jazz and improvised music in clubs and festivals across Poland and Europe, and in China, South Korea and Israel

Aaron Immanuel Wright

Born: August 7, 1979

Chicago saxophonist Dudley Owens and New York bassist Aaron Immanuel Wright have joined forces, forming a powerful band that is scheduled to tour the United States and Canada in 2012 as the Owens and Wright Experience. On their new record, People Calling (Origin 82611), Owens and Wright each introduce a handful of explosive, reflective, political, and hard-swinging compositions. Composer and bassist Aaron Immanuel Wright was raised in a musical family in Oregon. His grandmother Geneva Wright, a music educator and composer, introduced him to the piano. She also encouraged him to write down music as early as age nine

Yair Loewenson

Born: November 10, 1970

Yair Loewenson was born in Haifa, Israel, and has been playing, composing, and teaching music professionally since his late teens. Jazz has always been his main genre, along with late classical and contemporary compositions. His extensive track record on stage includes various ensembles: duets, trios, big-bands, and everything in between. He performs in concerts and festivals in Israel and Europe and plays double bass, electric bass, and guitar. Most recently, he launched his debut trio album Room 13, which he has solely composed and produced. Bass: I play electric bass since 1990

Greif

Born: July 4, 1958

Klaus Greif, 51, Germering. Nach Geige, Gitarre und E-Bass begann er vor 30 Jahren seine Karriere am Kontrabass. Erste Band war das Jazz-Ensemble Geisenbrunn. Beim legendären Toni Eichler Orchester (u.a. mit Peter Tuscher) des Unterfahrt-Gründers Mike Uitz spielte Klaus Greif in den 80er Jahren erstmals an der Seite von Olaf Urban. Meister-Bassist Paolo Cardoso stand dem Orchester damals als eine Art Coach zur Seite - wichtige Tipps haben Greif im kommenden Basser-Leben weiter geholfen. Weitere musikalische Stationen: Duo mit dem Flötisten und Sopransaxophonisten Walter Weh. Das wurde einerseits mit Drummer Brüning von Alten zum Trio und dem Gitarristen Gunnar Geisse zum Quartett erweitert. Eine weitere Zusammenarbeit mit Olaf Urban ergab sich sich bei dessem Projekt Trombone Coup, bei dem vorübergehend auch Sibille Lechner mitmischte. Eine wichtige Station war noch die Band No Distance, unter anderem mit dem mittlerweile verstorbenen Detroiter Drummer Fred Braceful (auch auf Tour mit Dollar Brand) und wiederum mit Olaf Urban und MIke Uitz.

Nicola Negrini

Born: January 27, 1967

He leads Scoolptures project beside collaborations with the nujazz ensemble Faze Liquide, the Alkord quintet led by Alberto Capelli, Gianmaria Testa and Lucio Morelli. He's engaged in theatre with the writers Carlo Lucarelli ["Pasolini: un mistero italiano" , " Uno Bianca"...] and Erri De Luca, with the actor Giuseppe Cederna ["Il Grande Viaggio"] and the Theatre of the Ariette ["Vite"]. Among the meaningful experiences, documented by a wide discography, there are the Nic: Neg Conference ensemble, the Inno quintet, the trio with Alfredo Impullitti and Mauro Manzoni, the recording and live activity with The Gunkhole (U.S.A.), with the composer Fabrizio Festa and the Alien Army collective

Michael Story

Born: June 1, 1983

Michael Story is a professional acoustic and electric bassist, band leader and composer from Melbourne. He leads his Melbourne based piano trio; featuring pianist Luke Howard and drummer Daniel Farrugia, which plays a blend of modern jazz and contemporary groove music, inspired by Bobo Stensen’s trio, Medeski Martin and Wood, The Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau. The trio has released a new recording ‘So you want more’ on Fern Frond Records, featuring many of the tunes written in 2009. The the trio has performed in Melbourne and toured twice to New Zealand to perform at major cities and the Queenstown International Jazz Festival. The trio’s sound has developed from their previous release with a greater focus on collective improvisation, blending deep colourful harmonies and melodies with kick, hats, snare and woody double bass grooves

Bassik Vibe

About Bassik Vibe Bassik Vibe is the new group featuring the internationally known vibraphonist, Stephan Bauer and British/American bassist, Howard Britz. With over 100 years of experience between them the combination of these two great musicians produces music of extraordinary depth and subtlety, swing and groove. Both Britz and Bauer are steeped in the Jazz tradition and Britz brings his knowledge and special feeling for Afro-Cuban music to group. Howard and Stefan are composers and band leaders and have released multiple albums under their own names. Stefan Bauer has performed and recorded with such artists as Tim Hagans, Larry Coryell, Peter Erskine Norma Winstone, Klaus König, Mick Goodrick, Alex Dean, Jerry Fuller, Adam Nussbaum amongst many others

Steve Grout

Born: July, 1937

Acoustic Bass and electric guitar, starting in High School. Spent 1956 at North Texas, then returned to Iowa State and an engineering degree, playing gigs. Couple notable mentions include competing in the 1st Annual Notra Dame Jazz Festival with my 52' Les Paul, as well as Herbie Hancock sitting in on a couple of gigs back at Iowa State (he was a student at Grinnell at that time.) My engineering path led me to developing a line of high power transistor power amps, with many of my power amplifier designs found today in equipment such as Peavey Power Equalizers. Often find myself advising bands on proper use of sound equipment to get CD quality sound on normal gigs. Retired now from electronics CAD, am again able to focus on my bass (tho its electric - miss my Acoustic very much!)

Helmy Agustrian

Born: August 3, 1978

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Tomas Liska

Born October 1979 in Rakovnik, Czech Republic. 2000 - studies the double-bass at the Conservatorium of Jaroslav Ježek in Prague, under the leadership of prof. Petr Kořínek and soon became a presence on the local jazz scene, appearing with an array of musicians at the city's most important jazz clubs and festivals. 2003 - takes part in music project of Milan Svoboda’s Kontraband, following the tradition of Prague Bigband 2004 - finishes studies at the Conservatorium and at the same time is accepted at the Prague Jazz College of Jaroslav Ježek, studies under prof. Jaromír Honzák 2005 - with David Dorůžka’s trio, Tomáš takes part in the finale of the International Jazz Festival in Getxo, Spain 2006 – he played in a duo with vibraphonist Radek Krampl at prestigious iternational jazz festival "Sofia Jazz Peak" in Bulgaria