Results for "Bass"

The Neighborhood Quartet

The Neighborhood Quartet’s music is as varied as its members’ résumés—as improvisers, they’re adept at navigating jazz harmony; as writers they understand the shape of folklike melodies—but, if they had to be classified, you could say they pursue a distinctly midwestern take on the tradition of R&B and pop instrumental groups. Such groups were thicker on the ground in the sixties and seventies: Booker T. & the MG’s, Young-Holt Unlimited, the Meters, and broadly kindred bands such as the more jazz-aligned Crusaders. On its self-titled debut album, the Neighborhood Quartet doesn’t explicitly sound like any of that—they aren’t retrogressive or imitative—but they tap into the tradition’s sensibility: sticky melodies laid on top of supple funk; clever, economical arrangements; tasty and succinct solos. For the group’s guitarist and lap-steel ace, Dan Schwartz, the NHQT has two principal modes, both evocative of motion: their groovy side, likened to cruising through the streets of the quartet’s native Twin Cities; and their ethereal side, likened to floating above the nearby prairie. Indeed, the album’s bright, hooky opener, “Hey Fellas,” written by the band’s vibraphonist, Steve Roehm, would sound great coming from a car stereo on one of the long commercial streets of Minneapolis (or Detroit, for that matter). Meanwhile, Schwartz’s plaintive “End of October” could soundtrack a country drive where with each second the windshield frames a new classic of landscape art. 

Nicol River

Born: December 3, 1997

Nicol River is a composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and director. She has recorded an album of jazz standards and has released several singles which have received an overwhelmingly positive response by her audience.

Nicol River's music can be described as 'contemporary folk', as she draws her inspiration from traditional music across the world including Balkan, Indian, Celtic and Nordic music, and translates it all to modern arrangements. Her lyrics delve into the philosophical complexities of life and death, joy and sorrow, spread across experimental harmonies and atypical time signatures.

​Nicol is the Director of River Music School London, the founder and co-organiser of the Young Cats Jazz Workshop at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, and a governor at the Wandle Learning Trust.

Perry Wortman

Born: November 30, 1978

Perry Wortman is a bassist who spent fifteen years in Brooklyn playing music that didn't fit neatly into a genre: South Indian Carnatic classical repertoire, jazz trios, old American folk songs, chamber writing, indie rock. He has mostly worked as a sideman, and he's good at the part of the job that doesn't get written about, which is making a band sound like a band.

He grew up in Tulsa and moved to New York to study with Buster Williams at the New School, then finished his degree at the Manhattan School of Music with Jay Anderson. His first record came out of those years. The Paislies was recorded in Brooklyn in 2005 and released by Fresh Sound New Talent, the Barcelona label that gave Robert Glasper, Kris Davis and Ambrose Akinmusire their early records. The band was nominally led by drummer Paul Wiltgen and guitarist Jesse Lewis, but it ran as a composers' collective. The music sat between jazz and progressive rock. They toured Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Darryl Kanouse

Darryl is a multi-instrumentalist and producer. Darryl's credits include guitar in the experimental/jazz/thrash band Melic Sub Rosa, bass in the free jazz group The Blueprint Ensemble, and bass in the electronic/trip-hop ensemble Sonic Wave Society. Darryl was also the Managing Director for the digital label Redline Park and the founding member and resident multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles Audio Improvisation Lab. He has collaborated with hundreds of musicians in diverse genres, from hip-hop to classical.

Affinity Trio

Active since: 2021

CLASSIC HARD-SWINGING JAZZ IN THE MIDWEST

Affinity Trio consists of Eric Jacobson on trumpet, Clay Schaub on bass, and Pamela York on piano. Individually, they have worked with some of the biggest names in the jazz world: Benny Golson, Phil Woods, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, Bruce Barth, Brian Lynch, Greg Tardy, Frank Morgan, etc. 

The trio has held a regular Monday night residency at the Mason Street Grill in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 2021. Performing without a drummer, Affinity Trio creates an intimate ambience with a strong rhythmic groove. Their repertoire includes standards from the Great American Songbook, original music, and bebop. 

Krzysztof Pabian

Rafael Enciso

Born: September 16, 1999

Rafael Enciso is an award-winning bassist and composer from New York City. He performs at renowned venues and festivals including Carnegie Hall, the Jazz Gallery, Dizzy's Club and the Detroit and Rochester Jazz Festival, performing alongside emerging and established artists. As a bandleader, Rafael has presented his original compositions at venues like Bar Bayeux and NuBlu, offering audiences a glimpse into his musical expression.

Louis Navarro

Louis Navarro started to play the double bass at the age of fourteen. In 2009, he started studying at the Music Conservatory in Montauban (France) were he was awarded First Prize in classical music and another prize in Jazz music. His conservatory years gave him the opportunity to be the student of French bassist Daniel Massard, former member of the Orchestre National du Capitole of Toulouse (France), currently considered one of the best symphonic orchestras in the world. Additionally he has studied with jazz legends such as Hein Van de Geyn, Larry Grenadier, Peter Washington, and Pierre Boussaguet.

Daniel Ellis Perez

Born: September 12, 2005

Puerto Rican–American bassist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Daniel Ellis Perez grounds his work in listening, responsibility, and a rigorous commitment to individual voice. Emerging organically as a bassist after beginning on guitar, he approaches the instrument as both a musical and ethical center, prioritizing time, feel, and deep attentiveness while engaging jazz as a language, lineage, and ethic rather than a style to be imitated. Born and raised in Chicago, his sound is shaped by the city’s contradictions and communal realities, drawing from Black American music, rock, and alternative forms to pursue meaning as much as form

Peter Heckmann

Independent Music/Film/Theater Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Mixing & Mastering Engineer and Multimedia Production Specialist with nearly five decades of experience in the entertainment and multimedia design industries. Peter Heckmann worked with a broad spectrum of clients in both the entertainment industry and corporate sectors.

His expertise has been achieved through forty-seven years of professional involvement in documentary video, feature film and music production, audio recording and engineering, stage design and theatrical production, multimedia and graphic design, investigative journalism and project management.