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David Shaich
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David Shaich, originally from Portland Oregon,currently resides in NYC where he performs regularly as a freelance bassist. He has recently shared the stage with such performers as Deborah Harry, Rosanna Vitro, Mary Cleere Haran, Joe Cohn, The Cotton Club Big band, The Stan Rubin Big Band, Dena DeRose, Roy Campbell, Frank Wess, Eric Alexander, Joe Farnsworth, Mike Longo, Bob Mover, Patience Higgins, Arturo O'farrell, Ed Cherry.
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Spencer Russell
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After cutting his jazz teeth playing with students of the Oberlin Conservatory and studying double bass with Peter Dominguez while taking classes at the college, Spencer moved to New York's Columbia University to study electrical engineering. At Columbia Spencer started moving more into electronics, augmenting his bass with sensors and adding a laptop to his performance rig. He is currently interested in developing new modes of electroacoustic performance and human/computer interaction. Spencer is also a member of Capillary Action, a Philadelphia-based collective under the direction of Jonathan Pfeffer who performs Pfeffer's blend of avant-jazz-metal-afro-cuban experimentalism.
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Aaron Darrell
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Aaron Darrell was born in Alabama and, growing up in Kentucky, Kansas, and Indiana, ended his stately adventures when the Darrells settled in Virginia, where he went to middle/high school. State to state, Aaron sang in church choirs, often as a soloist. He was also a member of many secular competitive choirs such as the Northern Indiana Youth Chorale and a youth choir led by conductor and composer John Leavitt. At age 10 Aaron was chosen by David Aiken to play the lead role of Amahl in Giancarlo Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”. The production toured for five weeks, performing concerts in Indiana, Virginia, Richmond, Illinois, Ohio, New York, and North Carolina. In addition to a decade of studying and performing vocal music from the classical repertoire, Aaron studied piano for several years
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Giovanni Tommaso
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Giovanni Tommaso inizia lo studio della musica frequentando il conservatorio di Bologna negli anni cinquanta, e in seguito a suonare jazz spostandosi con il suo contrabbasso a Bologna per partecipare a jam session che vedevano nella città emiliana una dei riferimenti per questo genere di musica in Italia [2]. Nel 1957 forma il Quintetto di Lucca, insieme al fratello Vito come pianista, al cognato Gaetano Mariani alla chitarra, a Giampiero Giusti come batterista e Antonello Vannucchi al vibrafono, con i quali nel 1958 pubblica un EP con quattro brani e si aggiudica La Coppa del jazz, torneo radiofonico organizzato dalla RAI. A 18 anni inizia a lavorare come musicista in orchestre di navi da crociera, cosa che gli permette di frequentare tra il 1959 e il 1960 i locali jazz di New York, dove ha modo di incontrare contrabbassisti come Paul Chambers, Ray Brown e Charles Mingus
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Riccardo Del Fra
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Riccardo Del Fra was born in Rome, Italy in 1956. He studied double bass at the Conservatorio di Frosinone with Franco Petracchi and Franco Noto. Collaborations with the RAI - Radio-Television Orchestra for jazz concerts, TV programs and recordings of movies soundtracks ( Federico Fellini's "The City of Women" - music by Louis Bacalov, Liliana Cavani's "The Skin" - music by Lalo Schifrin, etc.). He played with several italian groups (Piana-Valdambrini, Enrico Pieranunzi) as well as with american soloists coming to Italy. He met Chet Baker in 1979. In the '80s he moved to Paris, France. His collaboration with Chet lasted about 9 years - 12 recordings (Chet Sings Again, Mr.B, C.B
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Frank Tusa
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Bassist, composer, educator Frank Tusa has had a wide variety of recording, and performing experiences with such diverse artists as Art Blakey, Buddy Montgomery, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Tommy Flanagan,Pepper Adams, Shelly Manne, Bobby Hutcherson, Johnny Griffin, Herb Ellis, Art Farmer, Richie Beirach,Randy Brecker, Freddie Hubbard, John Abercrumbie, George Cables and many other great jazz artists. Tusa’s early recordings are with jazz legends Paul Bley, Don Cherry and Dave Liebman. Frank was one of the original members of Dave Liebman’s critically acclaimed group “Lookout Farm”
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Ben Tucker
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A native of Tennessee, Tucker by the age of twelve, began to develop his musical interest first on trumpet and later on the bass and quickly made a name for himself in Nashville. Following a stint in the Air Force, Ben settled in California, playing with Art Pepper and Shorty Rogers, among others, and was an integral participant in the legendary "Jazz of Two Cities.” By the early 1960's, he was regularly performing and recording with such greats as Herbie Mann, Billy Taylor, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Rich, Quincy Jones, Marian McPartland, and Mel Torme. A prodigious composer (many of his songs are jazz standards) of over 300 titles, Tucker's "Comin' Home Baby" was a blockbuster hit for Herbie Mann, "Devilette" and "The Message," both recorded by Dexter Gordon and " Right Here, Right Now" by Billy Taylor are just a few of the many title songs that Ben has written and published. Ben has been rewarded and nationally celebrated by his appointment to the Advisory Committee of the Kennedy Center for the Arts by President Jimmy Carter
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Ken Filiano
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Ken Filiano performs throughout the world, playing and recording with leading artists in jazz, spontaneous improvisation, classical, world/ethnic, and interdisciplinary performance, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless inventiveness. Ken's solo bass CD, “subvenire” (NineWinds), received widespread critical praise. For this and numerous other recordings, Ken has been called a "creative virtuoso," a "master of technique" . . . "a paradigm of that type of artist. . . who can play anything in any context and make it work, simply because he puts the music first and leaves peripheral considerations behind." Ken composes for his quartet with Michael Attias, Tony Malaby, and Michael T.A
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Eddie Haas
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Eddie De Haas, bass player, a musician in the classic jazz tradition made popular by such innovators as Oscar Pettiford and Ray Brown. Eddie was born in 1930 in Bandoeng on the island of Java, Indonesia, and moved to Amsterdam during the war. He started his musical career on the ukulele, and later, along with friend and band leader Rob Pronk, graduated to the upright bass. Coming to the US in the 1950's, de Haas soon became a valued sideman in many notable artists' rhythm sections including Chet Baker, Roy Haynes, Gene Krupa, Martial Solal, Miles Davis, Toshiko Akeyoshi, Blossom Dearie, and in the 1960's, Peter, Paul & Mary.
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Bill Crow
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Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Crow is best known as a bassist but has been a trumpeter, saxophonist, trombonist, and drummer. He is also one of the few musicians who has bothered trying to write about his craft, beginning with a series of reviews he contributed to Jazz Review in the late '50s and eventually including two full-length books. He was also in charge of the lighting for an off-Broadway show in 1958. Crow's first instrument was the piano, at the age of four. He started playing the trumpet in fourth grade and continued through baritone horn and valve trombone in various school and military bands
