Results for "bass, acoustic"

Gordon Johnson

Born: July 31, 1952

As a bass player, Gordon Johnson is a list-maker's dream. There are the world tours with names like Maynard Ferguson, Gene Bertoncini, Roy Buchanan, the Paul Winter Consort, CBS All Stars and Chuck Mangione. There are the recordings as sideman, over 150 at last count, from jazz (Jimmy Hamilton, Maynard Ferguson, etc.) to blues/R&B (Buchanan, Doug Maynard) to bluegrass (Becky Schlegel) to folk (Greg Brown, Arlo Guthrie). Network television appearances run the gamut from the Merv Griffin Show to Soul Train. But more important is the list of adjectives that undeniably apply to Johnson: fluid, inventive, smart, tasteful, complimentary and complete, to name just a few

Robbie Link

Born: March 28

ROBBIE LINK is a performer and teacher on the double bass, cello, electric bass, viola da gamba, and violone. Link performs and records with many period instrument, chamber, jazz, and folk music ensembles and enjoys performing everything from Baroque to Bluegrass. He maintains a private teaching studio near Chapel Hill, NC. Link studied jazz with David Baker and classical bass with Murray Grodner in the School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and also studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has performed with The Bach Sinfonia, North Carolina Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Louisville Symphony, Ensemble Vermillian, and Ensemble Courant as well as with many jazz notables including Maxine Sullivan, Tal Farlow, Mose Alison, Mark Murphy, Carol Sloane, Margaret Whiting, Bobby Enriquez, Joanne Brackeen, and Scott Hamilton.

Michael O'Brien

Born: January 29, 1975

Michael O'Brien . Bassist. Composer. Educator Michael O'Brien studied bass under Anthony Cox, and West African and Haitian percussion under Marc Anderson. Michael has been performing and composing for over a decade with such notables as Gene Pitney, Dave King, Jeff Kashiwa, Todd Reynolds, Wessel Anderson, David Binney, The Jazz Mandolin Project, Joel Harrison, Marty Haugin, Peter Ostroushko, Christian Howes, John Van Ohlen, Hod O'Brien, Stephanie Nakasian, Dan Weiss, Marc Giuliana, Roseanna Vitro, Daniel Kelly, Marc Anderson, Mary Ellen Childs, Bruce Henry, Laura Caviani, Electropolis, Clay Moore, Daniel Alexander Jones, J

Neal Caine

Born: January 11, 1973

Neal Caine is a natural, a dyanamic bass player with strong drive and an intuitive feel. Starting with the Suzuki Method on violin at age three, Neal learned music as a native language, and he has the facility and musicality to show for it. By the age of twenty, he was preferred on the New Orleans scene by such notables as Ellis Marsalis, Donald Harrison, and Nicholas Payton, and was asked to join the Elvin Jones group, a position of high honor that he carried with distinction for almost four years. He's been a first pick by vocalists including Diana Krall, Betty Carter, and Harry Connick Jr. He was also a frequent presence on the Smalls scene for many years, performing often with regulars Sherman Irby, Gregory Tardy, Charles Owens, Harry Whitaker, Zaid Nasser, Frank Hewitt, and others

Robert Severini

Born: August 19, 1952

Australian Bassist of italian origin. studied with Rufus Read, Todd Coolman, Randy Breker, Steve Swollow, Ray Drammond, Mick Knock

Jeremy Stratton

Born: 1970

Born and raised in New York City. Attended Berklee and lived in San Francisco in the late 20th century. Kicked off the 21st century back home in NY. Currently performing with Lee Konitz. Recent projects include Quartet Doloroso featuring Morris Acevedo, Dave Pietro and Anthony Pinciotti and a soon to be released recording with The George Schuller Trio with pianist Dan Tepfer. Performed with artists such as Victor Lewis, Teddy Charles and Connie Crothers. Performing regularly in Japan with The Blue Willow Trio featuring Takumi Seino and Masako Hamamura. These days shuttling between New York and Barcelona. Founder of The Grassroots Jazz Effort.. Sundays 7:30-10:30pm at Grassroots Tavern, East Village NYC, 20 Saint Marks Place (between 2nd & 3rd Ave.) A weekly no-cover session jointly run with Adam Kolker

Ron Brendle

Born: July 4, 1955

Ron Brendle, a freelance bassist in the Charlotte area since 1981, was recently recognized by Charlotte Magazine as "Best Bassist." His innovative compositions and improvisational style have also earned five awards as "Jazz Artist of the Year" by Creative Loafing Magazine. Ron was the recipient of two North Carolina Arts Council Jazz Composer Fellowship Grants, which helped to produce his CDs Hypermobility and Photograph.

Ron's composition Not Forgetting was used in the motion picture The Architect and his compositions Hypermobility and Freeway were featured on two JazzSouth Sampler CDs.

As a first-call bassist in the area, Ron has performed and recorded with many notable jazz artists of international stature, including Nneena Freelon, Clark Terry, Andrew Hill, Charlie Byrd, Charlie Rouse, and Mose Allison

Sr Tony E. Moore

Born: April 17, 1959

Alejandro Cimadoro

Born: March 3, 1961

Alejandro Cimadoro's fruitful musical career spans for over 25 years. He was part of the renaissance of Argentine Jazz and Rock, which took place in the early 80s and projected many of that country's bands to the international scene. Alejandro was at the center stage of that process, sharing the stage with rock, pop, tango and jazz legends-such as Nito Mestre, Gabriel Ogando, Mar�a Rosa Yorio, Armando Alonso, Pepi Taveira, Eduardo Casalla, Juan Cruz de Urquiza, Pollo Raffo, Ernesto Jodos, Carlos Lastra and many others. Alejandro's vast experience includes live TV and radio performances, as well as touring extensively Latin America

Amin EL

Born: October 16, 1959

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas Oct.16,1959 Self taught musician first instrument, piano later clarinet, drums, guitar,bass and vocals. Moved to LA in 77',introduced to the jazz community through contacts met at, "The World Stage",Leimert Park in Los Angeles. Current project is a Spoken Word collaboration with various artists entitled, "Protraits".