Results for "bass, acoustic"

Gianluca Renzi

Born: March 24, 1975

Gianluca Renzi was born 1975 in Frosinone, a little italian city near Rome and he’s fast becoming one of the most interesting musician in Europe. He has been touring all over the world as a sideman with some of the most known international musicians and as a leader of his own “sextet” and “all star orchestra” and he just moved to New York city. Gianluca Renzi is an acoustic and electric bass player and arranger as well. He has Degrees in classical music performance and in jazz performance, jazz composition and jazz arranging from the Italian Conservatory of Music. He also studied with Marc Johnson, Miroslav Vitous, Palle Danielson and John Patitucci. He has recorded more than 30 cd’s with the most important Italian and american musicians such as Steve Lacy, Steve Grossmann, David Fuzinsky, Leon Parker, Umberto Fiorentino, Rosario Giuliani, Maurizio Giammarco, Giovanni Mirabassi. As a leader he has recorded 3 records with his own bands for the italian label WIDE SOUND

Nabil Amarshi

Nabil is a Bassist and Composer/Arranger from Vancouver, Canada. Since the age of 18, He has provided the earthy, soulful low-end on numerous performances and recordings ranging from jazz, soul, folk, and pop, to world music, and orchestral settings. A graduate of Humber College of Performing Arts in Toronto, he began as a sideman with local veteran jazzmen Archie Alleyne and Doug Richardson in various groups. Since 2007, Nabil has been spending several months of the year in the UAE, where he performs with regional and touring artists as well as composes for film and media. More recently, Nabil has been developing a unique voice in his original compositions, blending uncommon instrumentation while redefining the boundaries of genre

Steven Strauss

Everything since being Charles Brown's bass player in the late eighties has been a let down. My happy personal memories of stopping at ATMs with him after gigs warm my aging heart.

David Buck Wheat

Born: March 19, 1922

David Wheat played guitar with many big bands in the 1950's and performed with the Playboy Jazz All Stars in 1959. He recorded with "Chet Baker Trio" on "Embraceable You", "My Funny Valentine" and "There's a Lull in My Life" in 1957. Baker's soft moody vocals (no trumpet) accompanied by only David on nylon string acoustical guitar with bassist Ross Savakus. With lyricist Bill Loughborough, David wrote the jazz classic, "Better Than Anything", going on to write the up beat jungle sounds of "Coo Coo U", made popular by Manhattan Transfer. Buckhweat, the nick name he went by, is most known as the stand-up bass accompanist with the original Kingston Trio, where he brought a sence of jazz to the popular folk groups sound in their early recordings, touring for years and worked on several albums

Dwight Thompson

Born: June 19, 1980

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Peter Slavov

Born: February 6

Peter Slavov is a New York-based bassist, composer, session musician, arranger, and educator. Since he started performing professionally in the mid-1990s, Peter has performed at some of the most prestigious venues and festivals in more than 40 countries on 5 continents.

Born to the family of legendary Bulgarian drummer Peter Slavov Sr., Peter (sometimes credited as Petar) has been playing bass since the age of twelve.

While studying classical music at the Pipkov Music School in Sofia, Bulgaria, Peter discovered American jazz and soon after became the busiest bassist on the scene in Bulgaria, playing with the country’s finest musicians and touring around Europe.

Benjamin Fox-Rosen

Born: October 21, 1984

Benjy Fox-Rosen is a bass player living in Brooklyn, New York City. He moved from Los Angeles in 2002 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary music, where he had the opportunity to study with Mark Helias, Mark Dresser and Jane Ira Bloom among others. After studying in Buenos Aires in the Fall of 2005 with maestro Javier Dragun, Benjy returned to NY to finish school and immediately joined the Luminescent Orchestrii, a gypsy/tango/klezmer/punk string band based in Brooklyn. Since then, Benjy has toured internationally performing throughout the United States and Europe. Benjy was a recipient of the Bronfman Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Student Artists in 2007, for “Minutn fun Bitokhn” his suite melding Yiddish songs with improvised and composed music

Patrick Cowan

Bassist Patrick Cowan has performed with a diverse roster of jazz greats and notables including Buddy Collette, Philip Harper (Art Blakey, Harper Brothers), Jerry Byrd (Freddie Cole, Jack McDuff, Sam Rivers), Mimi Fox, Michael Santiago (Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan), Eddie Marshall (Bobby Hutcherson, Stan Getz, Ahmad Jhamal), Ali Hassan (Sun Ra), Adam Levy (Norah Jones), Kim Nalley, Scotty Wright, and many others. As an orchestral musician, he has backed such luminaries as legendary crooner Tony Bennett, jazz sax master David Murray, and opera diva Kathleen Battle.

Dalt Williams

DALT WILLIAMS, acoustic bass, leader, composer/arranger Dalt was born and raised in Vallejo, CA where his music education began(on trumpet and tuba). After high school he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a bandsman where he became interested in the acoustic bass. He first studied bass with Jack Weeks(former bassist with Cal Tjader and Dave Brubeck). While in Korea he performed with the U.S. 8th Army Band and drummer Ed Thigpen (Oscar Peterson Trio),guitarist Rod Lewis(Anita O'Day), and pianist Dave Hildinger. Dalt is a graduate of San Francisco State University where he studied bass with Charles Siani(San Francisco Symphony) and earned a degree in Music Education

John Howard

Born: February 28, 1951

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