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Larry Grenadier

Born: February 6, 1966

As one of the most admired, accomplished bassists working in jazz today, Larry Grenadier has been praised as “a deeply intuitive” musician by The New York Times and as an instrumentalist with a “fluid sense of melody” by Bass Player magazine. Grenadier has created an expansive body of work in collaboration with many of the genre’s most inventive, influential musicians – from early days playing with sax icons Joe Henderson and Stan Getz to what has been decades performing alongside pianist Brad Mehldau, from extended experiences working with the likes of Paul Motian and Pat Metheny to co-leading the cooperative trio Fly (with Mark Turner and Jeff Ballard) and quartet Hudson (with John Scofield, John Medeski and Jack DeJohnette). Over a performing and recording career that spans now three decades, it has been not only Grenadier’s instrumental virtuosity and instantly recognizable tone that have made him such an in-demand collaborator but also his uncommon artistic sensitivity, imagination and curiosity. In February 2019, ECM Records will release Grenadier’s first album of solo bass. Titled The Gleaners, it presents a brace of originals by the bassist alongside pieces by George Gershwin, John Coltrane and Paul Motian, as well as a pair of works written especially for Grenadier by guitarist, longtime friend and fellow ECM artist Wolfgang Muthspiel. Grenadier also includes an instrumental interpretation of a song by his wife, and frequent collaborator, the singer-songwriter Rebecca Martin.

Isaac Jaffe

Born: March 10, 1987

Cited by All About Jazz as a bassist with “all the groovy elasticity necessary to encompass the melodic complexity of compositions,” Isaac Jaffe is a strong voice in a new generation of musicians. Isaac has recorded and performed with many musicians in New York City’s diverse jazz scene including Robert Dick and Mara Rosenbloom, while continuing to collaborate with contemporaries in the burgeoning Brooklyn rock scene. In the spring of 2009 Isaac recorded and self released his first CD Of Pandas and People, introducing his unique voice as a composer and nimble work on the upright bass. Isaac’s follow up, Telenovela Volume 1 continues to break new ground in the development of his energetic and melodic instrumental music

Clovis Nicolas

After having established himself as a first-call bass player on the European scene (performances with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Brad Mehldau, Michel Legrand,..), jazz bassist Clovis Nicolas moved from France to New York in 2002. Since then, he has shared the stage in numerous venues (Jazz Standard, Smalls Jazz Club, Blue Note, 55 Bar, Kennedy Center, Smoke, Jazz Gallery, Birdland, Alice Tully Hall, Dizzy’s Club...) with some of today's most prominent jazz musicians, such as Jeremy Pelt, Grant Stewart, Harry Allen, Branford Marsalis, Curtis Fuller, Benny Powell, James Williams, Peter Bernstein, Joe Magnarelli, Marcus Gilmore, Sachal Vasandani, Eric Alexander, Carl Allen, Greg Hutchinson, and Dan Nimmer

Engin Tanis

Engin Tanis began his music studies as a child at the Bilkent University Conservatory of Music in Ankara, Turkey. He got his first guitar at the age of 12 and began playing electric bass by the time he was 18. Engin has focused on Flamenco, Rumba style, but has also performed rock, funk, and other contemporary styles with musicians in the U.S. and in Turkey. Most recently, Engin undertook intense study with world renowned bassists such as Victor Wooten, Dave Welsch, and Chuck Rainey. In addition to teaching guitar and electric bass at Arlington Adult Education Center, Engin has also been giving private lessons since 2000.

Kris Afflerbaugh

Born: September 26, 1984

Jim Stager

Timothy J. Spillane

Born: February 6, 1964

Started playing as a young tyke, aged 10 years, by picking up my father's Kay Jumbo Western acoustic and summarily bashing the living crap out of it...seeing as some of the God awful noise I was making resembled music, my older brother (Sean, RIP bro) decided to send me to study with local legend Lee Wondo to learn what I should and shouldn't do with stringed instruments. After 4 years (1978 - 1982) of intense drinking and not so intense studying on my part, Lee suggested that I consider pursuing another career as he felt I had no possible chance of actually playing a guitar with any semblance of talent (in your face Lee...although it was probably the best advice anybody has *ever* given me), but then I brought a bass up to one fateful lesson and he did a complete 180, even going s far as suggesting several local acts that he felt would hire me to play bass for them! Me being me, I was reluctant to follow with his advice once again

Elad Muskatel

A bass player (Upright & Bass Guitar) of the bands The Apples, The Mickey Shaviv Blues Trio and Hadma'ot. In 2006-2011 Elad studied Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School University and graduated under a full scholarship. In his NY career Elad has shared the stage with established musicians such as Daniel Carter, Gerry Hemingway Amir Ziv, William Parker, Yotam Silberstein, Junior Mance, Omer Avital, Ofer Ganor, Mathias Kunzli, Ziv Ravitz, Lukas Ligeti, George Colligan, Eyal Maoz and many more. He studied with well known artists such as: Reggie Workman, Lenny White, Joe Martin, Bob Cranshaw, Ben Street, Diane Moser, Rory Stuart, Tim Lefebvre, Joe Chambers, John Hebert, Cecil Bridgewater, , Richard Bukas, Jean Perla, Andy McKee, Michael Karn, Jane Ira Bloom, Andrew Cyrille.

Lee Smith

Lee W. Smith is an American-born bassist. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Leopold and Anne Smith, the younger of two children. He has an older sister, Leanne. Lee has three sons: Lee W Smith, Jr., Tommy Pinkett, and celebrated bass great Christian McBride. Lee studied trumpet from 5th grade through his freshman year at West Chester University. He played with the school orchestra and band, and with the all city concert band. While in Overbrook High School, Lee got his first bass guitar, and started learning songs from the radio by ear. He became interested in the bass guitar after hearing James Jamerson on numerous Motown recordings