Results for "Bass"

Jon Maharaj

Born: January 13, 1981

Jon Maharaj is one of Toronto's busiest bassists. He has performed and or recorded with Reg Schwager, Mike Murley, Christian Scott, Matt Stevens, Dione Taylor, and many others. He's appeared on dozens of recordings crossing a number of genres. He graduated from the University of Toronto's Jazz studies program. He lived in New York on a Canada Council grant, where he had the opportunity to study with Drew Gress, Ben Street, Scott Colley and Matt Brewer. He writes music. He plays music. He recently got really into reading "watchmen".

Antonio Correa

In Progress........

Simon Cole

Born: November 12, 1987

Bass player living in East London, Stratford. Play sessions for some great people around here. Recently moved to make a go as a session player. Love playing funk, jazz and reggae. Play for a guy named Gecko at the moment who has just released his second album 'songs in the key of lizard' which has been received very well. I also play with two other singer songwriters, Sarah Lou from Dublin who's stuff should be out in the next year or so and Amy Thomas, Who creating her new sound writing a lot of glam rock/electro material as a pose to her back ground of soul music.

Tshaka Mayanja

Ugandan born, Tshaka Mayanja is arguably reggae music's best kept secret. With over five hundred songs already written and arranged, 36 year-old (born Winston Mayanja) Mayanja has made his mark in Africa, as a reggae singer, songwriter, producer and promoter. He has done countless radio and TV interviews in Africa, including interviews on Channel O (Africa's version of MTV on the biggest cable TV network in Africa MNET), and a live interview on Irie FM during the Sting Reggae Festival in Jamaica in 1996, with GT Taylor (top radio DJ in Jamaica) and Copeland Forbes (legendary Jamaican MC and road manager).

In February, 2007, Mayanja was contracted to be a judge for both the auditions and the finals of East Africa’s biggest reality TV music talent search; The Tusker Project Fame project

Fernando Huergo

Fernando Huergo is a bassist, composer, and educator from Cordoba, Argentina, now based in Boston. He has recorded over 140 albums, including 11 as a leader. Fernando has toured and given clinics in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. An active performer on the jazz scene, he currently plays with Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, MOZIK, Mehmet Sanlikol, Daniel Ian Smith, Pablo Ablanedo, El Eco, Macuco Quintet, Leo Blanco, Fernando Brandao, Yulia Musayelyan, Carlos Averhoff, Maxim Lubarsky, Claudio Ragazzi, and Giovani Molten. He has performed with the bands of Luciana Souza, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Danilo Perez, Marta Gomez, Dave Valentín, Hendrick Meurkens, Dave Liebman, Dave Samuels, Joe Beck, and many others

Will Morgan

Born: March 31, 1993

Started playing Baritone in 6th grade and here i am at the top of my game. I love Glenn Miller mostly and I really like to play his music. I am hoping to come out with a small Christmas CD, but I have not decided quite yet. I also play in my schools pep band. I hope that I can go and play music in a pep band for college after high school. I hope to be sponsored by a record company, this is one thing that I love to do, and I would also love to have my own solo performance at some kind of club. I also play clarinet to some extent but I can play some fairly good tunes. PLEASE feel free to e-mail me or just leave a comment.

Juini Booth

Born: February 12, 1948

Playing professionally since age16, Juini Booth has expanded the range of the contrabass into a refined personal language of intense acoustic awareness and spatiality of sound. Firmly rooted in the forefront of the American jazz tradition, which he has helped to shape, Booth's music also integrates influences from world music, emerging beyond the boundaries of categories to express the poetics of universal humanness. His compositions reflect a masterful use of simple melodic themes developed through unexpected harmonies, unusual tonal qualities and time relationships, inviting the listener to a new level of musical perception. Booth has performed, recorded and toured for over 40 years with jazz musicians from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers to Tony Williams Lifetime, including many others like Albert Ayler, Betty Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Chuck Mangione, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, and Randy Weston. Juini often tours extensively in Western and Eastern Europe, performing solo bass concerts in the U.S., Canada and Japan

George DeLancey

Born: September 30, 1988

A native of Cambridge, OH, and a student of such prestigious programs as the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Michigan State University Jazz Studies Program, where he studied under Rodney Whitaker. He has worked with notable bandleaders Johnny O’Neal, Wessell Anderson, Willie Jones III, Philip and Winard Harper, Christian Howes, Houston Person, Tia Fuller, Bria Skonberg, as well as many others in New York and throughout the Midwest. He is active nationally as a bandleader and educator, and has worked with programs including Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People, Christian Howes’ Creative Strings Workshop, and Keith Hall's Summer Drum Intensive

Danilo Gallo

Born: March 12, 1972

Born in Foggia, Italy, in 1972; based in Milan.

He has maintained an active international concert schedule for over 30 years.

He plays electric bass, double bass, bass balalaika, and guitar.

His work spans genres from jazz and rock to improvised music, as well as collaborations where music interacts with other disciplines such as theater, dance, poetry, and cinema.

He leads internationally acclaimed groups such as DARK DRY TEARS, DANILO GALLO - EDE - "EURISTIC DATA EXCHANGE," and GALLO & THE ROOSTERS, and co-leads GUANO PADANO and THE LAST COAT OF PINK.

Paul Beaudry

Bassist Paul Beaudry enjoys an exceptional career as a performer, composer, producer, and educator. He has performed and/or recorded throughout the United States and Europe with great jazz artists like Clark Terry, Jimmy Cobb, Frank Wess, Cecil Bridgewater, Roy Hargrove, Eddie Henderson, Steve Turre, and Wycliffe Gordon. Beaudry currently tours with the Bennie Wallace Quartet, Allan Harris, Eric Lewis Trio, and Alvin Atkinson and the Sound Merchants. He performs regularly in the New York area with Eric Lewis, Lafayette Harris, and the Fabulous Soul Shakers. He also leads his own trios, quartets, and quintets featuring his favorite songs, original music and original arrangements. An active composer, Beaudry has written large scale and short form compositions in the classical and jazz idiom