Results for "Bass"

Tony Cimorosi

Born: July 1, 1951

Tony Cimorosi has been on the NYC World Beat, Rock, R&B, Jazz and contemporary Jazz scene for over 30 years, playing with world renowned musicians including; the Brazilian Power Samba band Pe De Bois, Babatunde Olatunji and Drums of Passion, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Terry Reid, Michal Urbaniak, Walter Bishop Jr., Randy Brecker, Michael Wolff, Badal Roy, Jeremy Wall (Spyro Gyra), Brian Kean, Frank Colon, Vic Juris, Jimmy Ponder and Carmen Lundy. He has toured Japan, Europe, Russia and the US with various artists and his own world- beat/contemporary jazz ensemble. He holds a Master’s degree in Composition from Purchase College S.U.N.Y

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Laurence Cottle

Born: December 16, 1961

Born in Swansea, into a musical and theatrical family, Cottle was one of three brothers who helped their father (a pianist) in his variety act. “We were all encouraged to play the piano,” he continues, “and also to take up a second musical instrument.” Cottle chose the trombone, while the eldest brother took up the trumpet and the middle brother the clarinet. With little music in school, he remembers going to a private trombone teacher, “where I did all the grades.” At the same time, his father realised that his growing family had the necessary instrumentation to set up a trad jazz band, and so throughout his early teens Cottle toured Wales and the West Midlands, gaining valuable “playing” experience.    

“When I was 16,” says Cottle, “my father decided that he wanted to switch the band to being a dance band rather than a ‘trad’ band, and that’s when I first picked up the bass.” His first bass was a Kay that he put through an old Selmer valve amp. “I soon got tired of that,” he comments, “so I bought a Fender Jazz that I fed through an Ancron unit

Terry Douds

Born: March 7, 1956

TERRY DOUDS ­ bassist - is the Broadcast Operations Supervisor for the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University. He is in demand as an instructor, performer, clinician, and recording engineer-producer. A graduate of the Ohio State University, he performed on four award-winning albums by the OSU Jazz Ensemble. With the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Carmen Cavallaro Trio and the Woody Herman Orchestra, he has toured the United States, the Dominican Republic, Europe and Asia. He has performed with The Ink Spots, The Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Columbus Jazz Orchestra, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and the Four Aces

Brian Glassman

Born: November 28

Brian Glassman Double Bass, Bass Guitar- acoustic/electric Brian is a master of many musical genres: Classical, Rock, Latin, R&B, Cabaret and is renowned for his work in Jazz and the world music genre known as Klezmer. Klezmer / Yiddish and Jewish music stars such as The Klezmatics, Andy Statman, Frank London, Alicia Svigals, Michael Alpert, Greg Wall, Adrienne Cooper, Joanne Borts, Neshama Carlebach, The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene all call upon Brian for hisunique expertise in this musical style. He has also performed with many legendary stars of Jazz like Paquito di 'Rivera, John and Bucky Pizzarelli, Lionel Hampton, Benny Golson, James Moody, Gary Burton, Randy Brecker, Billy Cobham, Larry Coryell and Popular American Song Book artists including Liza Minnelli, Margaret Whiting, Michael Feinstein, and Anne Hampton Callaway, and Stephen Schwartz. Brian has performed nation wide and throughout the world and on six different tours as an honored Musical Ambassador for The U.S

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Alex Frank

He may only be in his 20’s, but Alex Frank has already established himself as a first-call bassist for film (Jersey Boys, Black Nativity), television (You’re The Worst, Modern Family, Friends With Better Lives), and records (Bruce Forman, Dave Damiani). Along with pianist Peter Smith and guitarist John Storie, Alex recently founded the group Too Marvelous For Words, a tribute to the original Nat King Cole trio, which has begun touring nationally. Alex has also become an in-demand accompanist for jazz singers Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. (America’s Got Talent winner, 2011), Renee Olstead (TV’s Still Standing, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), Spencer Day, Jackie Ryan, Erin Boheme, Sara Gazarek, Jane Monheit, James Tormé, Melissa Morgan, and film icon Molly Ringwald

Jeff Grubbs

Born: July 2, 1963

Jeff Grubbs, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, is a jazz bassist who is also a veteran member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He received his musical training at Youngstown State University, The Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Southern California. In 1986, Jeff won one of Downbeat Magazine’s “Dee Bee” awards for Best Collegiate Bass Soloist, and has since performed in the local jazz scenes of Cleveland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami and Pittsburgh with a number of internationally recognized jazz artists including Nat Adderly, Mose Allison, Terrence Blanchard, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Kurt Elling, Roger Humphries, Ramsey Lewis, Joe Lovano, Ellis Marsalis, Chris Potter, Diane Schur, Lonnie Smith, Ira Sullivan, Billy Taylor and Joe Williams

John Koh

Born: December 23, 1996

Hi, I am John Koh, and I am 15. I started to play the bass half way through my 7th grade. What inspired me to play the bass, especially jazz bass, was from my dad's god father, El Dee Young. Currently, my dad, who is a Jazz pianist, and I have formed a trio, including our friend who plays the drums. The trio has not started to play at gigs yet, because of my dad's business trips that have suddenly become very frequent for this past month, but I would hope to play in bars regularly once he has settled down in his job. At the moment, we live in Shanghai, China, due to my dad's job. There are many jazz scenes around this city, especially with the JZ festival this year, when Ron Carter came to perform, and at the same concert, I met Chris Potter! Originally, I am from Singapore, but the jazz scene is not as big

Bruce Kaminsky

Bruce earned both Master's and Bachelor’s degrees in Music from Combs College of Music, Philadelphia. In addition, he has studied Jewish Liturgical Music at Gratz College and participated in the Orchestra Seminar with Dr. Samuel Adler at the Eastman School of Music. Bruce is an alumnus of Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School. His private double bass teachers include Irving Cohen, Albert Stauffer and Enrico Rossi. Bruce Kaminsky has been bassist on more than fifty recordings, including his own Klezmer Jazz Ensemble CD: “And the Angels Swing.” He has performed in venues as varied as a command performance at the United Nations before the signing of the Israeli/Jordanian Peace Accord, the Jewish Music Festival - Berlin, Germany, and the World Café in Philadelphia. An ardent believer in reaching across musical, cultural and political boundaries, Bruce Kaminsky has collaborated with musicians from all over the world, in many different styles