Results for "Bass"

David Hughes

Born: December 27, 1971

David Hughes was born and raised in Sweden but is now based in Los Angeles, California. After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockolm, Hughes left for LA in 1994 for a stint at the Bass Institute of Technology, BIT. After receiving the BIT Outstanding Student Award, Hughes soon joined the teaching staff and began to explore life as a studio and live musician. David received his first important break when Wayne Henderson of the legendary Jazz Crusaders asked him to join the band. Other credits include Chaka Khan, Melissa Etheridge, Burt Bacharach and Connie Stevens and Ray Manzarek (the Doors)

Christopher Barosky

Born: February 15, 1989

I'm a youngin. I have plenty to learn.

Adam Pultz Melbye

Born: July 8, 1981

Steve Beskrone

Born: August 26, 1955

Versatility is the key to acoustic/electric bassist Steve Beskrone's musical achievements. It is this approach that has led him to a wide range of professional and creative settings. He has worked and recorded with legends such as: •Ray Charles (featuring David "Fathead" Newman, Hank Crawford, Marcus Belgrave, B.B.King, Milt Jackson, Jimmy Heath, Johnny Coles and others) •jazz pianist-composer Horace Silver (with Miles Davis alumnus Bob Berg, trumpet great Tom Harrell and drummer Eddie Gladden) •jazz guitar icon Pat Martino (with Jim Ridl, Gil Goldstein, Lenny White, Billy Hart) •master jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones Some of the other great musicians Steve has worked with include: Billy Eckstine, Gloria Lynne, Jack Sheldon, Frank Gambale, Charlie Hunter, Tuck Andress, Jimmy Bruno, Dave Stryker, Bobby Watson, Steve Marcus, Kenny Werner, Diane Monroe, Terell Stafford, Ralph Peterson, Terri Lynne Carrington, Karrin Allyson, J.D

Dave Martin

Born: June 3

Dave Martin has been producing music for more than 20 years; he's recorded bands and singers too numerous to mention, and is the owner and operator of Java Jive Studio, in Nashville, TN. As a bassist, Dave's performed and recorded with singers well known, once known, and unknown; with bands playing all kinds of music; from show tunes to riff rock, from second line to polkas, and from blues to Beethoven. And he's performed with the All Bass Orchestra. Duke Ellington once said, "There are only two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." Dave has played both.

V'elRay

VelRey, is a jazz-immersionist preferring to swirl in a sea of bop, bossa and cool jazz to any other musical form. He includes such diverse sources as Timothy B. Schmidt, Paul Chambers and Wassily Kandinsky among his musical inspirations and traces his clothing inspirations to Salvador Dali. He traces his early interest in jazz to teenage insomnia that led him to listen to the only all-night radio available at the time: the easy listening jazz of the sixties.

Peter Washington

Born: 1964

Perhaps the most recorded bassist of his generation, Peter Washington has also played an integral part in two of the most important and highly praised jazz trios of the last 20 years, in addition to a "who's who" roster of jazz artists. Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1964, Washington attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in English Literature and played in both the UC Symphony and the San Francisco Youth Symphony. In 1986, while performing in San Francisco with alto saxophonist John Handy, he was asked by Art Blakey to move to New York and join the seminal Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Washington remained with the Jazz Messengers from 1986 to 1989, and during this time was able to establish himself as a ubiquitous, first- call freelance bassist; a position he has occupied to this day. In the early 1990's Washington joined the Tommy Flanagan Trio , called by many "the greatest trio in jazz", and remained until Flanagan's death, in 2002

Marc Piane

Born: October 28, 1974

Marc came home to Chicago after being at Knox College under the instruction of Scott Garlock and Earl Gately. He has since played and recorded with talents throughout Chicago including QBlue, The Lori McClain Trio, ESP, The Hunter Adams Trio, Beaky Johnston, Radiant Darling, Randy Murray, Tommy Bradford, Laura Hoffman, Brienn Perry, The Chris Greene Quartet, The Damian Espinosa Trio, and Jazz Conspiracy. He has arranged, composed, engineered, and produced material for Quest Ensemble including arranging music for their recent production of ‘The Wizard Of Oz’. He also worked extensively on the soundtrack for Quest’s short film ‘Blue Nativity’

Pablo Motta

Born: September 21, 1976

Pablo Motta Argentine-Born Jazz and Tango Bassist Born in Pergamino and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pablo moved with his family to Los Angeles, when he was 12 years old. He chose the doublebass at age 13 and began working professionally alongside his father, José Luis "Pepe" Motta, when he was 15. This experience taught him about many styles including tango, Argentine folklore, various latin rhythms and improvisation in general. He attended Hamilton HS Academy of Music and California State University, Northridge were he played in all the top ensembles and received several awards at competitions and festivals

Mário Franco

Born: October 20, 1965

Born in 1965, he started music lessons at the age of 4 in Centro de Estudos Gregorianos.

He studied music theory with Maria José Godinho and after moved to Academia de Amadores de Música where he continued his studies in music theory with Cristina Brito da Cruz, started to study double bass and chamber music with Fernando Flores and composition with Pedro Rocha.

In 1986-87 attended double-bass courses given by Ludwig Streicher in Estoril and in 1988 won 1st prize in the Prémio Jovens Músicos (Young Musicians Competition); later became a member of Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil where he worked on classical repertory with conductor Christopher Bochmann.