Results for "Bass"

Tomaas Proitsis

Born: March 11, 1971

Since his birth in Greece bassist Tomaas Proitsis was surrounded by music. Born in Goumenissa (Greece) and grown up in the area of Thessaloniki, he became already in small age conscious that music and art can move people. His first instrument was the accordion. He was 8 years old when he started playing it. Traditional Greek music, in addition, gypsy music, with the clarinet as the central instrument, were his first influences that shaped him in recent years. Proitsis had a couple of profound teachers on his way, but as the most important influence he calls 'Bruce Johnson' from New York. With him he studied American Jazz on the bass

Steve Mariani

Born: September 14, 1957

Attivo nel campo musicale fin dal 1973 in diverse band coltivando esperienze nei vari generi musicali dal rock sinfonico, allo psichedelico, al blues, alla musica afro-cubana fino al jazz-rock che lo ispiro' al punto di decidere di frequentare i corsi di basso jazz dapprima al Saint Louis sotto l'insegnamento di Paolo Damiani, in seguito elaborazioni jazz e composizione al Ciac di Roma sotto la guida di Nino De Rose. Steve Mariani E' di questo periodo la tournee con Nini Rosso, il grande trombettista che gli infuse una eccezionale grinta e voglia di esprimere completamente la sua personalità con il basso. Ha quindi partecipato a numerose formazioni in trio, quartetto e quintetto con numerosi jazzisti negli anni che vanno dagli ottanta ai novanta creandosi così una solida base che è stata la piattaforma della sua crescita musicale. Steve Mariani Nel 1990 inizia la collaborazione con Joe De Vecchis, dapprima in trio con la batteria esplorando ardite creazioni moderne di vari autori tra cui Shorter, Coltrane, Davis, poi in quartetto con il pianoforte

Steve Vasconcellos

Born: March 13, 1958

Steve Vasco and The Prophetz of Time and Space release thier new CD..."Vibrationz" that was recorded in Lake Tahoe where Vasco composes most of the music...with Mahavishnu Alumni,Jerry Goodman on Electric Violin,Ex Weather man 'Ndugu'Chancler on drums,Brandon Fields Saxes,Otmaro Ruiz, Acoustic Piano,Vasco on Bass,Munyungo Percussion,and Tadshi Namba on Electric Keys...other ...I've never heard anything quite like this music,It has a 'Spiritual Quality' about it...Aaron Cohen from station KTSJ in Houston was quoted as saying. Clifford Brown Jr. noted Radio host ,writer ,and contributor to many publications recently wrote for Jazziz Magazine "Imagine combining,cutting edge,contempory,smooth jazz,with hard-hitting retro jazzfusion groove and sprinkling in a little world music flavor" this is how he describes this 'Future Edge'sound...Vasco has just signed an international license agreement with ESC Records,in Germany...with the new "String Theroy" CD being released on Feb

Steve LaSpina

Born: March 24, 1954

Steve LaSpina has been a prominent bassist on the New York and national scene for over twenty years. During that time, he has played and recorded with many great musician in jazz history. He was a regular band member, toured and recorded with saxophonists Benny Carter, Stan Getz and Phil Woods, volcalists Joe Williams and Mark Murphy, trumpeters Clark Terry, Chet Baker and Randy Brecker, and guitarist Pat Martino. He has spent the last decade traveling around the world and recording with the lengendary guitarist Jim Hall, has appeared on six of his recordings, inculding These Rooms featuring Tom Harrell. LaSpina has appeared on many of the worlds foremost jazz festivals, inculding the North Sea and Umbia Jazz Festivals

Stephanie Pike

Born: December 1, 1988

I'm currently a solo Double Bassist/Alto Vocalist working with many ensambles but haven't found the one that sticks just yet. I've been playing and singing for 6 years. Grade 8 Royal Conservatory Piano and just really doing it out of the personal enjoyment. I'm at SFU, not for music, obviously, though I'm working at the radio station and have started a show called: "Jazz Edition." It's weekly aired on Fridays from 7am to 8am on CJSF 90.1 FM if you live in Vancouver or the lower mainland. If not then you can still listen off www.cjsf.ca. While at SFU I plan to be looking into Production but the Double Bass is definately my passion in the jazz sense

Roland Guerin

Born: November 15, 1968

With a new band and a new project entitled PROG:FUNK, New Orleans based singer-songwriter-bassist Roland Guerin is starting a new musical chapter. Drawing from a wide spectrum of genres, including American folk, blues, zydeco, rock and jazz, Guerin creates a singular style at the heart of which are stories told through multi-layered melodies, rhythms and expressive lyrics in the range of Steely Dan, Sting and Peter Gabriel. 

Raised in a musical family – his father was a great lover of jazz and classical music, his mother, a blues and zydeco bass player – Guerin began playing bass at the age of 11. Throughout his formative years, Guerin was strongly influenced by pop, rock and R&B music of the 70’s and 80’s. Bands and artists such as Cameo, Dazz Band, Rush, the Brothers Johnson, Gerry Rafferty, America, and Booker T & The MG’s seeded his love for great songs and inspired him to write music of his own. 
  
While studying Marketing at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Guerin joined legendary jazz educator Alvin Batiste’s Band, The Jazztronauts. Having inherited much of Batiste’s musical innovations and concepts, Guerin developed ways to bring his own musical voice to life. The jazz genre became his avenue toward success. Over the course of his career, Guerin toured and performed with legendary musicians, such as George Benson, Jimmy Scott, Frank Morgan, Vernel Fournier, Gerry Mulligan, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, John Scofield, Mark Whitfield, Ellis Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, and Paul Gilbert. He also participated in the recording of numerous albums, including the Blind Boys of Alabama’s Grammy Award winning album Down in New Orleans, Marcus Roberts’s Grammy Award nominated recording of George Gershwin’s classic Rhapsody in Blue, and Allen Toussaint’s album Connected. 
  
As a member of the Marcus Roberts Trio from 1994 to 2009, Guerin performed at the head of symphony orchestras across the world, among which the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and Seiji Ozawa’s New Japan Philharmonic. From his collaboration with Ozawa and Roberts, Guerin developed a deeper understanding and appreciation of orchestration and arrangement, both of which carry great importance in his own musical composition. 
  
In 1998, Guerin released his first album, The Winds of the New Land, featuring Peter Martin on piano, Nicholas Payton on trumpet, Donald Edwards on drums, and Mark Whitfield on guitar. The record was acclaimed for its innovative style of composition and arrangement. JazzReview called it "a literal piece of art", while the New Orleans Magazine named Guerin a Contemporary Jazz All-Star. He followed up with an album from the Roland Guerin Sextet, Live at the Blue Note, released by Half Note Records, and Grass Roots on Louisiana Red Hot Records. Guerin performs with his own band at major venues and festivals worldwide, such as the Blue Note in Tokyo and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. 
  
Guerin joined the Allen Toussaint Band in 2008, touring and performing with Toussaint until his passing in 2015. Soon thereafter, Guerin joined the band of legendary Dr. John, becoming his last Musical Director. During his time with Toussaint and Dr. John, Guerin found his way back to his musical roots. Integrating American folk melodies, blues, zydeco, African rhythms, and rock with jazz soloing and orchestral arrangements, Guerin creates an entirely new and singular musical experience.

Ramon Vazquez

Born: August 15, 1970

Ramon Vazquez Martirena (Bassist, composer,recording artist,arranger and producer) Born on August 15, 1970 in the Cuban Province of Matanzas. From a very early age, like many Cubans,he had to flee his country and moved to Puerto Rico with his family, with the hope of making their dreams come true. He began in music while still in middle school, where there was a student band. His first musical steps were with the triangle and the clave. After learning from his professor that the band needed a bassist, Ramon accepted the challenge and this way began his dedication to the study of his instrument

Ratzo B. Harris

Born: July 25, 1955

Moppa Elliott

Born: September 13, 1978

I was born on September 13, 1978, the first son of David and Carolyn Elliottin Scranton, Pa. Incidentally, they named me Matthew Thomas Elliott, notMoppa. My parents are both college instructors and intense music lovers, so Iwas able to hear a lot of music growing up. After a brief introduction to thepiano, I started to play the trombone in the sixth grade, and after deciding afew years later that I wanted to also play an instrument with strings, I wasgiven an electric bass. When I was about 17, I fixed up my father’s oldacoustic bass in order to audition for a summer program. I then began tostudy the bass seriously with Pocono resident Tony Marino.

Maurizio Rolli

Born: June 22, 1965

Maurizio Rolli is a graduate in double bass and jazz music studies. He is currently teaching electric bass and double bass as well as jazz harmony studies at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese in Pescara, Italy. He has worked with: Jim Hall, Mike Stern, Bob Mintzer, Michael Manring,Alex Acuna,Otmaro Ruiz,Scott Colley, Diane Shuur, Danny Gottlieb, Enrico Pieranunzi, Claude Barthelemy, Paolo Fresu, Gianluigi Trovesi, Bruno Tommaso, Paolo Damiani,Mauro Negri,Massimo Manzi, Giampaolo Casati, Marco Fumo, Pino Minafra, Adam Makovicz, Russel Gloyd, Pierre Favre, Michael Riessler, Bill Russo, Cameron Brown, Rosario Giuliani, Roberto Ottaviano, Marco Tamburini, Javier Girotto, Fabrizio Bosso, Giorgio Gaslini. He is Bass player in the R.A.R.E