Results for "Bass"

Matt Bragg

Born: August 9, 1955

Matt Bragg (Bass player / Musician) 

Matt Bragg is a professional bass guitarist based in Los Angeles, California known for his work as a session and performing musician on many records and musical projects. He’s built a career playing electric bass and contributing to various styles of music, including blues, soul, and R&B.

 Musical Profile

• Instrument: Electric bass guitar (and rhythm/versatile bass roles).

• Location: Los Angeles, California, United States.

Ray Seol

Born: December 1, 1973

Ray Seol is an Associate Professor of Professional Music and a Fulbright Scholar, as well as a distinguished jazz bassist and producer. He began shaping his musical identity at The New School’s School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, studying under legendary bassists Reggie Workman and Buster Williams.

His ability to fuse sound and color through synesthesia led to pioneering work in sonic visualization, developed during his master’s studies in music technology at New York University. This concept evolved into Interactive Jazz: Jazz as a New Visual Art, which has been showcased in galleries across New York and Seoul.

Since 2007, he has released five studio albums and performed at major international jazz festivals, collaborating with artists such as Jason Moran, Marta Gómez, Scott Robinson, Art Hirahara, and Takuya Kuroda

Sofia Moriz

Born: June 12, 2013

Sofia Moriz (b. 12 June 2013, Cape Town, South Africa) is a young and versatile musician whose broad artistic talent spans piano, guitar, bass guitar, and vocals. Beginning formal piano study at age six, Sofia progressed rapidly through music levels, achieving Piano Level 4 by 2025 under the tutelage of teachers at Hout Bay Music, where she also studied guitar and bass. 6 year old Sofia won her first talent contest in 2020 - Llandudno's Got Talent - by singing and playing piano on a recording of the Faber's "I Would Like To Go To Mars".

Manos Loutas

Born: December 23, 1966

Manos Loutas is a bassist, composer, improviser and educator for over 40 years, performed mainly in Greece and the U.S.A. but also appeared all over the world, collaborating with many artists in various styles of music.

Studied at Mannes College The New School for Music in New York and also with the great Mike Longo.

He performed and recorded with great Jazz musicians such as David Liebman, Andy Sheppard, Alex Foster, Craig Bailey, John Beasley and local greats Nana Simopoulos, Dimitrios Vassilakis and many others.

Viden Spassov

Born: February 2, 1989

Viden Spassov, born in 1989, is an Italian double bassist originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, and currently based in Turin. Winner of the 2023 “Luca Flores” Award at the Barga Jazz Contest, he has been working at a high professional level for several years in classical, jazz, and contemporary music.

A versatile and eclectic musician, he has found the world of improvisation and cross-genre exploration the ideal context for self-expression, experimenting with sounds that go beyond traditional stylistic boundaries, moving across jazz, classical, avant-garde, rock, world music, and electronic music.

Martin Gudics

Martin Gudics is an award-winning Hungarian bass guitarist, composer and session player. He began his musical studies at the age of 11 in 2005. Besides working with numerous Hungarian artists, he is also active internationally as a session bassist, performing with artists like:
- Peet Project (Billboard-charting pop/funk/smooth jazz group in which he is a member )
- Hauser (Rebel With a Cello Tour 2023–2025)
- Mike Gotthard Group (a fusion group of virtuoso guitarist Mike Gotthard)
- Helo (with international drumming sensation Gergő Borlai and keyboarder Zsolt Kaltenecker)

Other artists he has worked with so far include:
Jesus Molina, Dave Koz, Michael Lington, Adam Hawley, Dali Mraz, Chieli Minucci and Federico Malaman.

Martin teaches bass at the music faculty of the University of Debrecen in East Hungary.

Luca Curcio

Luca Curcio is an Italian-born bassist, composer, producer, and improviser based between Berlin and Copenhagen, performing and producing across Europe. His music merges improvisation, sampling, and deep rhythmic exploration, inspired by the groove and improvisational traditions that shaped contemporary music, from Charles Mingus and Charlie Haden to A Tribe Called Quest, Gnawa trance musicians, and experimental producers like Flying Lotus — shaping a raw, rhythm-forward sound that transcends genre boundaries.

Curcio leads La BOMBA, a project that channels high-energy, groove-driven improvisation through rhythmically focused compositions, sample-based textures, and raw, physical interplay

Fabienne Ambuehl

Fabienne Ambuehl is a London-based pianist, singer and composer born in Switzerland. Her new album ‘Thrive‘ was released in January 2025 on Ubuntu Music and has received the Presto Music Award for "Jazz Recording of the Year 2025". The band successfully launched the album with a sold-out concert at the Vortex Jazz Club in London.
‘Thrive‘ has received glowing reviews from the international jazz press. Jazzwise Magazine rewarded it 4 stars and it has received regular radio play in the UK, including BBC Radio 3 Jazz Record Requests, ‘Round Midnight and Night Tracks. The single ‘New Ones’ was on the JazzFM playlist for several weeks. On the Catalan public radio 3cat, there is an hour-long programme about Fabienne's music. The album was also presented on Deutschlandfunkkultur and ARD Jazz - Das Magazin and was selected “Album of the Week” on both Presto Music and the German Rondo - Magazin für Klassik und Jazz.

Her band is a dynamic ensemble of brilliant musicians – Matt Ridley on bass (The Antidote, The Darius Brubeck Quartet) and Jon Scott on drums (Mulatu Astatke, GoGo Penguin, Sons of Kemet XL), with special guest guitarists Tom Ollendorff and Ant Law. Ambuehl has a strong sense of ensemble interplay and balance between individual expression and collective cohesion. As Rondo - Das Klassik & Jazz Magazin put it: “Thrive convinces with warmth, precision and excellent interplay of the band”.

Ambuehl’s music is inspired by her surroundings, from the sounds and silence of the mountains, where she finds a deep connection with nature, to the rhythms and soundscapes of the big city. Her melodic ideas and detailed arrangements are rooted in jazz, playing with a folk-tinge and showcase her expressive and supple piano playing. Her vocals “are crystal clear, distinct and refreshingly free of jazz clichés” (Neil Duggan, AllAboutJazz) and as a writer she “has a poetic sensibility and uses expertly a range of poetic techniques in her lyrics” (Trevor Hodgett, 4 stars in RNR magazine)

Mason Handa

Born: June 25, 1999

Kelsey Mines

Kelsey Mines is a bassist, vocalist and composer that premiers new original music that seeks to intersect activism, community and art. Born and raised in Seattle, Kelsey grew up on the music made in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance from the University of Washington, and a Master of Music in Double Bass Performance from Arizona State University. A recipient of the Holland Scholarship, Kelsey followed her passion for the double bass to the Netherlands, where she studied at Prince Claus Conservatoire before returning to Seattle where she has fully established herself as an important voice in the scene as both a performer and educator.