Results for "Bass"

Melissa Slocum

Bassist Melissa Slocum has been performing worldwide since 1982 and has worked with such legends as Art Blakey, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Woody Shaw and Hank Jones. Comfortable in genres ranging from duo to big band, traditional to avant garde, she has performed and recorded with Charli Persip and Superband, Ralph Peterson and the Fo'tet, Avery Brooks with Craig Harris, Howard Johnson and Gravity, Dakota Staton, Kevin Mahogany, the Firey String Sistas and the all woman big band DIVA, among many others. She has worked with bandleaders Eddie Chamblee, David "Fathead" Newman, Frank Wess, Hamiet Bluiett, Don Byron, Jay Rodriguez, Frank Lacy and Nioka Workman; pianists Walter Davis, Jr., James Williams, John Hicks, Kirk Lightsey, Cyrus Chestnut, Roy Merriwether, Henry Butler, James Weidman and Darrel Grant to name a few

Peter Williams

Born: August 27, 1971

Grammy Winning Peter Williams is an English born musician living in Copenhagen Denmark. He started his career on bass guitar playing with various rock, funk and blues based artists in Liverpool and Sheffield where he had studied as an engineer. Later he moved to London and worked as a session musician, recording with, amongst others, Urban DK and break beat producer Jim Eliot. He was also in demand on the stage, performing regularly alongside Tears for Fears drummer Manny Elias and being a core member of various covers and R & B bands. Most recently Peter has been playing as a full time member of the Paul Harrison Traditional Jazz Band, and leading his own quartet: 2econd Nature

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Martin Höper

Martin Höper was born in 1978. His musical career started in Kalmar, Sweden, playing electric bass with various rockgroups.After switching to the upright bass in highschool and studying jazzmusic he ended up at the royal conservatory of music in Stockholm.There he studied with some of the most prominent bassplayers in sweden including Palle Danielsson. Pretty soon he began his freelance career playing with groups like Fredrik Norén Band, Rigmor Gustafsson, Gustav Lundgren Quartet, Last Days Of April and with electrojazz group KOOP he’s toured Asia, North America and Europe many times. Currently playing with Thus:Owls, Rigmor Gustafsson, Peter Jöback, Claes Janson, Platina Jazz, Martin Höper Quartet feat. Jonas

Clipper Anderson

Clipper Anderson is one of the Northwest's leading Bassists. Playing all styles on acoustic and electric bass, Clipper is a composer, studio musician, vocalist and educator. A native of Polson, Montana, Clipper began playing electric electric bass in 1973. Six months later he was selected by Rich Matteson as the All-Star bass player in Montana State University’s statewide high school jazz festival. Clipper was educated at the University of Montana, where he studied classical bass under Frank Diliberto and Jazz Workshop under Lance Boyd. It was there that he began to master the acoustic bass. The list of recordings on which Clipper appears is both long and impressive, including five with award winning Seattle jazz vocalist, Greta Matassa

Arnon Palty

Born: December 22

Bassit, composer and arranger, Dr. Arnon Palty is a graduate of Berklee School of music (B.A.) and Manhattan School of music (M.M. in Jazz composition and arranging)and holds a Ph.D degree with highest distinction from Bar Ilan University (Israel) for his research on Jazz Harmony. Arnon also holds an MA degree in creative writing (Prose and Poetry) from the Haifa University (Israel) as well as a Diploma in classic animation from Morley College, London, England. Additional studies include bass with Rich Appleman, Bruce Gertz,Greg Mooter, Josef Lang and Jeff Andrews, Harmony with Professor Izaak Sadai, Jazz harmony with Hal Galper and Mark Levine and composition with Mike Gibbs,Boaz Ben-Moshe and Reuven Seroussi. Arnon performed with Jazz legents such as Dave Liebman, Benny Golson, Didier Lockwood, Lee Konitזz, Lewis Porter, Terry-lyne Carrington, Airto Moreira, Zakir Hussein,Jeremy Davenport, Dave Douglass, Donald "Duck" Bailey, Norbert Stachel, The Grateful Dead/ Blues project reunion, with British prog rock band "Ordinary Listeners" and many others. Arnon played,arranged, produced and recorded for countless Israeli artists.

Tony Reeves

Born: April 18, 1943

Tony Reeves might not be as well known as Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer or Chris Squire of Yes, to name two of the star bass players in progressive rock. But he owned his own special niche in the realm, as a member of Colosseum, Greenslade, and Curved Air during the 1970s, and ended up becoming that field's answer to John Entwistle with his extremely prominent and complex bass sound. Oddly enough, he started out in jazz, and only moved into rock very gradually, once he'd taken up the electric bass. Reeves was born in southeast London in 1943, and attended Lewisham Grammar School, where his friends included future drummer Jon Hiseman and future keyboardist Dave Greenslade

Alessandro Olivieri

Born: November 20, 1967

Hi, my name is Alessandro Olivieri. I’m 43 years old, and live in Bologna. I have been interested in jazz since 1980. Before that, I was absorbed in the study of classical piano. I have always taken private lessons because I like to take a particularly slow pace. Until 2003 I attended many different jazz seminars and without a doubt the musicians who have had the greatest influence on me have been Barry Harris, Benny Golson e John Taylor; I have participated in numerous jam sessions with local musicians and performed in concerts in varied formations, but the one most congenial to me has been the piano trio

Marcos Varela

Musician/composer Marcos Varela began his musical career at the age of 17. He started playing the bass in his native Houston, TX while attending the highly acclaimed High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, a school which has been attended by many greats in music and art today. Some alumni include Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Beyonce Knowles, Brian-Micheal Cox, Eric Harland, Chris Dave, Matt Mullenweg (wordpress inventor) and many more. Inspired by such talented mentors and peers this led Marcos to want to pursue a career in music. Marcos quickly gained recognition in the Houston jazz scene and by the age of 18 was one of the top honorees of the NFAA International Jazz award and a IAJE Clifford Brown/Stan Getz All-Star fellow

Bjarni Sveinbjörnsson

Bio: Born in Akureyri, Iceland in 1963 Education: Musicians Institute, Los Angeles, Class of 1985, Encore 1999. Work: Performing, Recording, Composing, Teaching.