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Jacob William
Born and raised in India, Jacob arrived via rare routes to play on the vast fields of Jazz and other creatively improvised and composed music. Jacob grew-up in a syncretic milieu; he attended parochial school and traveled extensively from a very young age. His earliest years in music were spent singing in choirs and being engaged in informal learning of a wide array of diverse hybrid music and playing various instruments. In his teens, Jacob started playing the bass guitar and soon began playing concerts and festivals all over India in the company of many forward-looking elder musicians who had a particularly deep interest in Jazz. Jacob moved to the U.S. in 1991 after receiving a scholarship to study music.
In 2001, Jacob received a Master of Arts in Music degree from Wesleyan University, where his studies and work combined ethnomusicology, world-music and experimental composition under Anthony Braxton, Neely Bruce and Alvin Lucier. He also studied South-Indian Carnatic vocal music with T. Viswanathan and percussion music with Ramanad Raghavan and David Nelson. During 1998-1999, he attended the New England Conservatory of Music and studied in the department of Third Stream Music / Contemporary Improvisation under Ran Blake and studied the bass with Cecil McBee and John Lockwood. In 1997 he earned a Bachelor of music degree from Berklee College of music, completing his studies focused on Jazz Bass performance under Bruce Gertz, Whit Browne and Rich Appleman while studying Theory, Composition and Arranging. During this time, he also participated in Kenny Werner and Bob Brookmeyer master classes in composition and improvisation. He also privately studied jazz improvisation with John Laporta, Hal Crook and Charlie Banacos.
Jacob has worked with a diverse range of renowned personalities in Jazz and World-Music arenas such as, Abraham K. Adzenyah, Louiz Banks, Ranjit Barot, Maynard Ferguson, Joe Hunt, Jay Hoggard, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Charlie Mariano, Gustavo Ovalles, Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe, Omar Sosa among many others. He has also appeared in concert halls, festivals, clubs, studios and other venues in Asia, Europe and the United States, as well as on Indian National Television and Radio DRS (Zurich). Jacob was also founding member of the group J.E.R.M. with drummer Ed Nicholson, saxophonist Rolf Schlonvogt and pianist Michael Beck with whom he recorded and toured in the US and Europe between 1998 and 2003.
Jacob has contributed to over 20 recordings; some of which have been released on labels such as Warner, Intuition, Magnasound, and Not Two, among others. In 2009, Jacob's Quartet recording titled Secondary Deviations was released internationally by Swedish record label Ayler.
Jacob has also performed with Allan Chase, Tom Hall, Neil Leonard, Dave Bryant, Croix Galipault, George Garzone, Jorrit Djikstra, Joe Morris, Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, Forbes Graham, Amit Heri, Jim Hobbs, Jeff Galindo, Steve Lantner, Pandelis Karayorgis, Laurence Cook, Luther Gray, Chris Bowman, Junko Fujiwara, Jerry Sabatini, Jeff Song, Curt Newton, Eric Rosenthal, Syd Smart, Glynis Lomon, Jon Damian, Eric Hofbauer, Garrison Fewell, Jason Robinson, Andria Nicodemou, Bill Lowe, Royal Hartigan, Charlie Kohlhase, Noah Kaplan, Joe Moffett, Bob Gullotti, Eric Zinman, among others.
Dave Bryant: The Garden of Equilibria
by Dave Wayne
As one of the few keyboardists to perform and record with Ornette Coleman on a consistent basis, Dave Bryant stands alongside the likes of Geri Allen and Paul Bley. Yet, Bryant is not nearly as well-known. A Berklee graduate who studied privately with Coleman starting in 1983, Bryant's first appearance on record was with the trio ...
Outpost 186 March Highlights: Jacob William
Jacob William returns his Para Quintet to Outpost 186 on Saturday March 24th after an interlude of gigs in other dubious roosts. Now that he is once more in the cozier confines of the Outpost, free of the concerns attending tavern work, he'll shine at his usual level of dazzle with his astute and earnest compadres. ...
Jacob William Quartet: Secondary Deviations
by Chris Rich
Jacob William made his way to the Boston area from Chennai, India. He made the music school rounds well after formative years in the homeland among his peers there. He cites reed multi- instrumentalist Anthony Braxton as an important mentor and makes a fabric of community in Boston over the course of his sojourns through Wesleyan, ...
Jim Hobbs joins Aych and the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet at Outpost 186 on Friday Dec 23
Aych is a trio comprising Mary Halvorson guitaristry, Jim Hobbs saxophone honing and Taylor Ho Bynum cornettery in some serene survey of juxtapositions Mr. Hobbs variously describes as porch music" This will be a Boston premiere as is a cd release show for the newly reshaped Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet brought to ears as Apparent Distance ...
Outpost 186 leans in to a piano laden summer for Inman Square, Cambridge
Piano players are coming out of the woodwork at Outpost 186. Mothers Day saw an astonishing turnout for Matthew Shipp, who followed a solo set with a long awaited Jim Hobbs duet, sponsored in part by All About Jazz. A snippet of the night awaits below. After a respite from Memorial Day, Hans Poppel has a ...
Laurence Cook and Eric Zinman - Double Action (Ayler, 2011) ****a1/2
By Stanley Zappa Laurence Cook is a national treasure. Why the cultural machinery would rather embrace bourgeois twaddle rather than reward Laurence Cook with a Guggenheim grant or Macarthur award or the key to the city of Cambridge is one of the more egregious betrayals of our modern day. Cook took the drum seat after Milford ...