Results for "Bass"

John Benitez

John Benitez - acoustic and electric bass Grammy award-winning bassist John Benitez, born in Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, started playing gospel music in church at the age of thirteen. Already a gifted musician, John began his formal education at "Escuela Libre de Musica" followed by study at the University of Puerto Rico and later the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music with master bassist Federico Silva. By age nineteen, John was the first-call bassist in San Juan's thriving Jazz and Latin music scenes. He performed with, among others, such well-known artists as Chick Corea, Lucecita Benitez, Batacumbele, Lalo Rodriguez, Cuco Peña, Roberto Roena, and Justo Betancourt

Ariel de la Portilla

Born: November 10, 1975

Ariel de la Portilla was born in the city of Matanzas, Cuba where he lived until immigrating with his parents to the United States in September of 1980. He was raised in the southwest area of Miami, Florida. The neighborhood better known as “little Havana”. Growing up surrounded by the sounds of Cuban and Brazilian music as well as simultaneously experiencing American music and culture gave his childhood a distinctly unique dichotomy that later proved to have become a crucial aspect of his life education, and musical identity. After graduating from high school in 1994, Ariel left his home town of Miami Fl

Carter Fox

Born: December 9, 1990

Bassist and producer Carter Fox began his musical journey in the suburbs of Philadelphia learning classical upright bass at the age of 9. His yearning to express his creativity continued to expand as he learned to play many orchestral, wind, and brass instruments throughout his youth, focusing mainly on bass and trombone. His leap to the world beyond classical music started in 2006, when he began to perform with numerous jazz groups and musicians around Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware at the age of 15. Under the mentorship of world-renown bassist Gerald Veasley and notable session bassist and arranger Kjell Benner, Carter honed his performance and songwriting chops, performing hundreds of shows and playing with numerous bands before releasing his own self-produced LP “Suburbia” in spring 2009 at the age of 18

Eivind Opsvik

Born in Oslo, bassist and composer Eivind Opsvik was introduced to music at home. His father loved to play the saxophone and constantly spun records—everything from Ornette Coleman to Billie Holiday and The Beatles. An early memory features Eivind on drums, jamming out “A Hard Day’s Night” with his father. Later, a denim-clad rocker cousin lent him a bass guitar and the newfound ability of adding pitch to rhythm was a revelation. Opsvik spent the rest of his teens getting to know this instrument, as well as the double bass, while also experimenting with a 4-track tape recorder and pouring music into his head.

Stephen Marquis

Songsta is Stephen Marquis, composer, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist. Songsta has written and produced music for artists, film, TV and advertising as well as working as a freelance bassist on the Sydney circuit. Writing in all styles of music from techno and groove to jazz and rock, the Songsta soundscape is diverse and far-reaching. After years behind the scenes, Songsta is now releasing his original work to the public. The focus is on the treatment and character of each song rather than the sound of one individual singer or band. A close listening quickly reveals a great depth, thoughtfulness and artistry within this body of music that is as engaging on the first hearing as the one hundredth. Choose your favourite style from the Popsta, Rocksta, Groovsta, Acousta or Jazzsta catalogues

Doug Miller

In a town that boasts an unusually large number of top-tier jazz musicians, Doug Miller was one of Seattle’s most respected bass players for 23 years. A mainstay of that regional jazz scene for two decades, Doug appeared in concerts, clubs, clinics and on recordings with many of the world’s leading jazz musicians including James Moody, Ken Peplowski, George Cables, Ray Vega, and Dick Hyman, and he has toured with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Ellington Orchestra, and Ernestine Anderson. He’s a founding member of the critically-acclaimed trio New Stories, and of Big Neighborhood, a quartet that played twenty-first century jazz by merging unusual elements in collage-like compositions that combined unusual energy with edgy improvisation

Brandon Essex

Born: November 8, 1980

Brandon got hooked on music at an early age. He began playing loud rock music in bars and clubs at the tender age of 15. Still in his teens, Brandon flipped for the double bass and jass music, joined a quartet and landed his first steady gigs. Soon after that, he actually learned how to play, and has never looked back. Now with a voracious diet for both quarter notes and syncopation, playing music has become a self sustaining habit, with many chairs and cigarette machines agreeing that his vicious cycle of fourths is vital and addictive..............

Karl E. H. Seigfried

Born: March 8, 1973

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