Results for "bass, acoustic"

Terry Plumeri

Born: November 28

Terry Plumeri's innovative style of bowing jazz solos on the acoustic bass has garnered comments like "Stunning... a very high level of music..." from the Washington Post. "Terry Plumeri's bowed bass work is endlessly compelling" from All About Jazz. "Extraordinary bowing facility" from Jazz Improv Magazine. In speaking about his latest jazz release Blue In Green, Jazz Improv Magazine has said “The performances and solo improvisations on the parts of Terry Plumeri on bass, David Goldblatt on piano and Joe La Barbera on drums are outstanding. Blue In Green is an album bubbling with creativity, interactivity, magnificent improvisations, and the combined experience, sensitivity, and desire of three consummate musicians performing eight essential pieces from the jazz and standard repertoire

Alex Bellegarde

Energetic player, composer and Grand Jazz Award winner at the Montreal Jazz Festival, 26th ed, Alex Bellegarde creates music drawn from a wealth of sources. He heads a number of formations and participates in a range of projects: jazz, Latin music and multidisciplinary. With several albums to his credit, he is also a guest contributor to a wide array of other artists' recordings. A well-known figure on Montreal's jazz scene, he hosts a 'killer' weekly jam session that draws promising talents and renowned jazz musicians from near and afar. A much sought-after Latin bassist when local Cuban players or latin stars from out of town need the right sound, he has played at special events with artists from the US and Cuba : Candido Camero, Viti Ruiz, Maelo Ruiz, Edwin Bonilla, Chiquitin and Caridad Cruz

Bryan White

Born: November 7, 1980

Asheville, NC based electric and double bass composer and performer. 24+year veteran of the Western NC/Asheville music scene. Currently recording/performing with Up Jumped Three.

Yuri Goloubev

Born: July 27, 1972

Born in Moscow, Russia, in 1972. After many years of a splendid career in classical music, since his moving to Italy in december 2004 dedicates himself exclusively to performing and composing jazz that he has been playing and composing alongside with his classical activities for some years and considers as his true call. In his "adopted home", Italy, collaborates with such important figures of Italian and European jazz scene as Enrico Pieranunzi, Franco Cerri, Glauco Venier, Claudio Fasoli, Giovanni Falzone, Guido Manusardi, Gianni Cazzola, David Boato, Antonio Zambrini, Massimo Manzi and many others

Todd Nicholson

Bassist and composer Todd Nicholson has performed with Billy Bang, Peter Brotzmann, Roy Campbell, Eddie Gale, Frank Lowe, Tatsuya Nakatani, William Parker, Alan Silva, James Spaulding, and Steve Swell among others. He recently relocated to Tokyo, Japan and has become active in the jazz and improvised music scenes, establishing working relationships with koto player Michiyo Yagi and violinist Keisuke Ohta. He has appeared in a variety of settings throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, including the Vision Festival (NYC), the Rochester Jazz Festival, the Other Minds Festival (San Francisco), Tampere Jazz Happening (Tampere, Finland), Sons d'Hiver (Paris), the Ottawa Jazz Festival and the Full Moon Festival (Mangetsu sai) in Miyajima, Japan (the island off the coast of Hiroshima)

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Manny Flores Jr.

Born: October 9, 1954

Manny Flores Jr. was born in El Paso, Texas on October 9 . Manny spent his first eighteen years of life as an army brat, traveling and listening to music in a variety of different places. These places include Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Augusta, Georgia; Ansbach, Bavaria; Fort Benning, Georgia; and Fort Huachuca, Arizona. He began his playing career in the summer of 1971 at a gig at the Fort Huachuca NCO Club. At this time his inspiration for the bass was fellow left- handed bass player Paul McCartney (his first bass is a left- handed Hofner Violin Bass. Manny graduated from Buena High School in Sierra Vista in l972.He also listened to jazz when he would by Blue Note LPs at the bargain bin. Eric Dolphy and Charles Mingus were among his favorites. He then graduated from Cochise College in Douglas Arizona in 1974 with an Associates degree in Liberal Arts. In 1975 he moved back to his hometown of El Paso, Texas He begin playing in various groups in the El Paso area including Top 40 groups and Country and Western groups doing the Dyer Street circuit and road gigs in New Mexico, Wyoming and Arizona He enrolled at the University of Texas at El Paso

Gavin Scott

Born: February 28, 1961

Electric and acoustic bass player Gavin Scott studied on a scholarship at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston MA, and became the first recipient of the Quincy Jones Award for Musicianship in 1992. Early in his career he was in the resident dance band at the Hammersmith Palais: "Cold Water Morning", which spawned musicians such as Trevor Horn and Anne Dudley. This has been followed by residencies on the QE2 and at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club, working alongside names such as Earth Wind & Fire, Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart and Elton John, playing for many of the crowned heads of Europe, as well as celebrities from Shirley Bassey to Roger Moore

Robin Hood

Born: September 25, 1950

Robin Hood attended Forrest Park Community College and University of Missouri at St. Louis, where he majored in Music Performance, String Bass and Russian Language Studies. Robin has been playing and teaching string bass and electric bass guitar for 30 years to private students. He has worked as a volunteer with the Carlmont High School Jazz Band in Belmont and Redwood Symphony in Redwood City. He has been on the Stanford Jazz Workshop Faculty for over 20 years. Robin is currently on the faculty at The Community School of Music in Mountain View, CA, teaching jazz and classical string bass and bass guitar. Robin has worked professionally as a jazz musician since 1971 in St

Bren Plummer

Born: May 21, 1976

Double bassist, composer, improviser and  educator, BREN PLUMMER was born in Seattle, WA, where, early on, he was exposed to the diverse musical traditions of jazz, the blues, classical music, hip hop and funk as well as Seattle’s heavy underground grunge-rock scene.  

"People like to put me in a box and ask if I am `'classically trained'.  While yes I am, I have always been a jammer and always wanted to make sure that I could make music with anyone, whether they can read music or not.  I enjoy being able to read and write, but before I was ever trained to play classical music I was a professional bass player.  I also play bass guitar and have been in hundereds of bands.  I don't think people even know what `'classically trained' means.  I began several periods of deep study on my instrument with master musicians so that I could do my craft justice.  I believe one must master their instrument if they want to master music, and I am still in pursuit of that goal."