Results for "bass, acoustic"

David "Davey" Masteller

Hailed as an inspirational artist by many, Davey Masteller has earned a reputation as a talented musician and skillful performer. Coming from the Low Country’s First Family of Jazz, Davey has become a powerful and well-known force in the Jazz world as well as the Rock and Pop genres of Music. He has been involved with a number of different Jazz groups, a variety of original bands, and has played behind several great singer/songwriters throughout his career. Davey can be described as a Jazzer with the heart of a Rocker. This proves to be very evident in the intensity, passion, and energy that comes through in his playing no matter what style of music he is performing. When he gets lost in his music he really shines as his true self

Alon Near

Born: January 12, 1994

Alon Near is an Israeli-based bass player, currently residing in New York, where he is working as a bass player in various bands, after graduating the "New School For Jazz" with an Honorary Degree. Amongst many others, Alon has played with Kurt Rosenwinkel, David Liebman, and Eli Degibri. Alon has also attended the prestigious "Berklee Workshops" Led by terry Lynn Carrington, was awarded a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music, won first prize in the "Rostov Jazz Competition", and is playing in New York's soon to come Winter Jazz Festival with the Eli Degibri Quartet.

Bruce Henri Leitman

Born: August 13, 1949

Born in the USA, Bruce Henri spent his childhood in Spain before moving to Brazil, where he spent most of his life and became a highly acclaimed musician. Having played with a great number of artists, Bruce’s contribution to the Brazilian music scene has been recognized as significant and innovative. Apart from standing out as a sideman, playing acoustic (and occasionally electric) bass on many memorable recordings and presentations of some of the country’s most distinguished artists, Bruce has pioneered transcriptions and performances of Brazilian classical compositions, personalising them to his own style

Søren Nissen

Soren Nissen is a professional bassist and educator living in Toronto, Canada. He is a creative yet grounded bassist with a strong rhythmic propulsion, technical expertise and musical sensitivity that is recognizable across many musical genres and settings. Soren is an in demand performer and educator in Canada and abroad and is dedicated to embracing and sharing the lifelong learning process that music holds. Soren's musical roots formed in his hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where classical piano and acoustic bass lessons introduced him to the fundamentals of music. He left formal piano study after at the age of 14 to pursue the acoustic and electric bass with more focused study

Patrik Boman

Born: October 10, 1964

CV Patrik Boman bass player, composer, arranger and producer Born 10/10 1964 Education: Malmö Academy of Music (Malmö faculty of fine performing arts) 1984-1985 Classical music Royal Collage of Music in Stockholm 1987-1988 Jazz Royal Collage of Music in Stockholm 2007-2009 Degree of Master (two years) in music Started playing jazz, and double bass, at 14 years old so I´ve been playing for 37 years now. Turned professional at 22 years old with the legendary swedish jazz pianist Lars Sjösten Quartet, so I´ve been playing professionally for 29 years. Lars Sjösten Quartet collaborated with, among others, artists like Benny Bailey and Bill Barron. I produced and arranged (together with pianist Peter Nordahl) as well as playing the bass on the very successful albums ”When Did You Leave Heaven” and ”Back to Earth” with Lisa Ekdahl and Peter Nordahl Trio

Robert Black

Robert Black's interests range from traditional orchestral and chamber music to solo recitals of cutting edge music, collaborations with actors, music with computers, movement-based improvisations with dancers, and live action-painting performances with artists. He has commissioned, collaborated, or performed with musicians from John Cage to D.J. Spooky, Elliott Carter to Meredith Monk, Cecil Taylor to Paquito d’Rivera, as well as many young emerging composers. His recital activities frequently take him to five continents and he has appeared at major festivals (Takefu International Music Festival, Japan; Festival de Eleazar Carvalho, Fortalzea, Brazil; Colombo-Catalan Festival, Medellin, Colombia; the Helsinki Festival; NYYD, Estonia; etc.), on radio and television broadcasts (Asia Live, Singapore, VPRO, Holland; NPR, United States; CBC, Canada; etc.) and as an artist-in-residence (Omnibus, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, American Center, Paris; the Banff Centre, Canada; Studio P.A.S.S., NYC). Robert is a current and founding member of the Bang On A Can All Stars, New York City’s hard-hitting new music ensemble

Nick Bresco

Born: July 18, 1975

Nick Bresco was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in a family of artists. Bathed in music from a young age, he Begins the violin at the School of Music of Dubrovnik at the age of five He decides to turn to the double bass to follow his father's footsteps and his taste for Jazz Pop and Funk influences. After a adolescence shared between the studies and the scene of the family Jazz Cafe, he graduated from the Academy of Music of LOVRAN in Croatia. In 2009 after several years in a group, during a long stay in New York, Nick discovered an interest in singing and self-taught he began a solo career as a singer- bassist and he created the brand Nick Bresco. He launches as well in the great Jazz standards as in the mythical titles of Pop that he performs in double bass-voice. Since 2013, the chance of dating has made him share his life between Dubrovnik and Paris where he has the opportunity to do some great scenes (New-morning, Sunset-Sunside, Gibus ...) and indulge in his second passion photography ...

Constantijn Van Der Heijden

Born: December 30, 1973

Constantijn van der Heijden is a professional double bass and bass guitar player and vocalist from Nijmegen, The Netherlands.   A professional musician, interested in a lot of different styles of music, with an extra preference in Jazz, Bigband, Funk en Soul, Jump&Jive en Rock&Roll. www.constantijnvanderheijden.nl

Federico Stocchi

Born: December 26, 1990

Born in Milan, moves to Brussels to study at the Royal Conservatory, where he meets many musicians from different countries. After his Bachelor degree he moves to Zhuhai (China) for one year as a performer and teacher for Golden Jazz management, having the opportunity to perform with several musicians from the Chinese scene. He performs as a sideman in very different contexts from traditional to more modern and experimental jazz, but also Flamenco and “Chanson Française” in events like Brugge Jazz Festival, Beishan Jazz Festival, Marni Jazz Festival, etc. Between his most recent collaborations the new project from Stéphane Galland “(The mystery of) Kem” his own project “The AwkWords (with Hendrik Lasure on piano and Paul Berne on drums), both due to album release at the beginning of 2018. In August 2017 his band “The AwkWords” was awarded with the First Prize in the Mechelen JazzContest for the best upcoming jazz group.

Anton Testa

Born: October 4, 1948

I am a seasoned upright bassist, who has played with many musicians and at many events. I have toured in the past and have played to large audiences. I enjoy playing to small groups in clubs and restaurants and to people who love music. I play classic jazz standards and songs from the American songbook. I also like a little rockabilly, which I call antique rock. To understand me and my playing ability; I am a structured bassist; read bass clef script, and play in many areas of the position on the bass which includes triads, sixths, sevenths, and dominant sevenths, as the music needs. I am an improvising bassist and can play any type of music although I limit myself to jazz and classic standards