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Bradford Truby

They define jazz as a method of playing, rather than a style or genre of music, imploring spontaneous interpretation. These members of the MTV generation use the music they grew-up with, songs such as “White Wedding” and “Cult Of Personality,” as a springboard for improvisation. They believe that jazz should be both introspective and accessible. Bradford Truby on upright bass, Bryan Besse on drums, and Chris Marsceill on keyboards/piano have been playing together for four years. Truby began playing Upright bass at 18, Besse started on drums at 12, and at age 4 Marsceill began playing piano

Ken Araki

Born: November 6, 1968

Hello, this is Ken Araki, the bass player living in Tokyo, playing Jazz, Fusion, Funk and etc... while making a living as a Composer, Arranger, Songwriter and Jazz Educator both bass and composition. My nickname "basskie" given by Quincy Jones is more popular in LA.1993-1999 worked at FM Radio Sta. "J-wave" in Tokyo.2000 Graduated from LA Music Academy2002 Berklee College of Music

Diego Sardo

Born: July 21, 1975

I've started playing at 13 and I'll never stop until my body can do it. But at that time my mind will continue it...

Chris Minh Doky

Born: February 7, 1969

CHRIS MINH DOKY

Chris Minh Doky stands out as one of the most talented bass players incontemporary music. The New York-based artist is regarded among themasters of the upright bass widely recognized for his passionate delivery andextraordinary technical gifts. As expressed by Down Beat Magazine: ”...thereis a softness and crisp clarity that is very different from the sound othersderive from the acoustic instrument”, Doky carries on the distinct Danishbass tradition of the acoustic bass being a lead instrument. With musicalroots deriving from his love of American East Coast grooves and the lyrictradition of Scandinavia, Doky has developed a distinctive sound as well ascreated a style that is uniquely his own.

Charlie Biddle

Born: July 28, 1926

Charlie Biddle is a musical institution. Across the continent, his reputation precedes him among jazz musicians. In Quebec, his name has been synonymous with jazz, Charlie's life story cuts through linguistic, cultural and racial barriers. When the Biddle Family opened the 1995 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, they were introduced as "the royal family of Montreal music". That Montreal stages the most successful jazz festival in the world is due in part to the efforts of Charlie Biddle. When he organized the first Montreal jazz festival, "Jazz de Chez Nous" in 1979, he was told that it would never work, jazz was then totally foreign to Quebec's culture

Leonardo Cioglia

Leonardo Emanuel Martins Cioglia was born in 1971 in the city of Brasilia, Brazil, where his music studies began when he was seven years old. In 1980 he joined the Escola de Musica de Brasilia (EMB), where he was selected to participate in the children's choir that performed on the first Opera seasons of Brasilia. At 14 years of age, after a pause from his studies at the EMB, Leonardo started playing electric-bass, having performed with various rock bands of his home town. In 1987, he returned to the EMB where, for the first time, he was exposed to an acoustic-bass. In 1989, during an exchange program to Canada, Leonardo participated in a jazz festival and won a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music

Sean O'Bryan Smith

Born: October 26, 1971

With nearly twenty years of experience in virtually every musical genre, Sean O'Bryan Smith has become one of the most celebrated and highly sought after bass players in the music industry. The combination of virtuoso bass technique, a high energy stage presence, and the ability to adapt to all types of music has landed Sean in an enormous variety of different musical situations. Some of the artists that have relied on Sean's groove either live or in the studio are Anna Wilson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Sara Evans, Jody McBrayer, Robin English, Rebecca St. James, Steve Virginia, Steve Azar, Cyndi Thomson, Vee, Chuck Wicks, Christina Tabuchi Stoff, Leo Stoff, Rich Eckhardt, Justin Conn, Nissi, Gypsy Carns, and the list grows more everyday

Anders Jormin

Born: September 7, 1957

Anders Jormin was born 1957 in Jönköping, Sweden. After intense studies, heleft Musikhögskolan in Göteborg with diplomas in double-bass andimprovisation / pedagogy in 1979.

Today as a doublebass-player and composer, he is a frequent and highlyrespected performer on the international concert scene. As a musician ingreat demand, he has recorded and toured with many of the legends in jazz. Among others : Gilberto Gil, Lee Konitz, Elvin Jones, Joe Henderson, DonCherry, Charles Lloyd, Mike Mainieri, Joe Lovano, and Jack deJohnette, as wellas Kenny Wheeler, Albert Mangelsdorff, Tomasz Stanko, Dino Saluzzi, JohnSurman, John Taylor, Mark Feldman , Paul Motian, Joey Baron, Tom Rainey, Jon Balke, Vertavo string quartet, Ann-Sofi von Otter, Norma Winstone andMarilyn Crispell. For many years, AJ was also a front figure in one ofScandinavias foremost ensembles, "Entra".

Ben Williams

Benjamin James Williams is a native of Washington, DC. He also performs on electric bass and piano as well. His musical influence is rooted in various genres of music including jazz, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, and classical. Ben is a recent graduate of the Michigan State University School of Music where he majored in Music Education with an emphasis in Jazz, studying with Rodney Whitaker and Jack Budrow. He plans to pursue a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School. Ben has won several competitions and scholarship awards. He is a two-time winner of the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Competition at the East Coast Jazz Festival; a two-time winner of the DC Public School Piano Competition; a 2002 recipient of the Duke Ellington Society Annual Scholarship Award

Rob Gourlay

Born in Seattle, Washington, Rob Gourlay spent most of his early years in the green mountains of Vermont. "My dad had a part-time vending business, and we often had a jukebox blasting music in the kitchen. I started playing guitar in 6th or 7th grade and loved it immediately. I had an opportunity to work on a variety of rock and jazz/rock music by artists such as Jeff Beck and Stanley Clarke and was also introduced to Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report. My big chance came when my brother's band, Tank, needed a bass player for a big New Year's gig. I had always learned their tunes, and that really paid off when they gave me the chance to play bass