- Sex:
- Male
- Location:
- Brooklyn, NY
- Current Setup:
- 100 year-old Hungarian double bass
David Gage Czech-Ease double bass
Fender Standard Precision w/ Duncans and Badass II
Danelectro Dano '63
Fender Highway One Jazz Bass
heavily modded 1974 Gibson "the Grabber" w/ Dimarzio J pups
GK 700RB, GK MB150
Flite Sound 1x12 and 1x15
Webstrings
Thomastik Spirocore strings, currently Weich gauge
Gage Realist pickup - Previously owned gear:
- Every string on the planet. Speaker cabs by Ampeg, GK, and Bag End. Amps by GK, Polytone, Ampeg, Peavey, Acoustic Image, Traynor, Walter Woods. Pickups by Underwood, Schertler.
- Gigs, Bands, & Ensembles:
- too many to list, mostly experimental/jazz/klezmer/balkan
- Influences and Teachers:
- Teachers: Mark Dresser, Steve Marks, Ken Filiano
Upright Influences: Mark Dresser, Barre Phillips, Barry Guy, Peter Kowald, Joelle Leandre, Dave Holland, JJ Avenel, Mark Helias, early Steve Swallow, Red Mitchell, many others
Electric: Graham Maby, Bruce Thomas, Clint Conley, Larry Graham, Busta Jones, Tom Petersen, McCartney, Chuck Rainey, many others - Other Hobbies & Interests:
- chess
- Available for instruction:
- New York
- Areas of Instruction::
- Double Bass (Classical), Double Bass (Jazz), Bass Guitar
- Teaching Credentials:
- I have taught workshops on free improvisation and extended double bass technique in many parts of the US, and Canada to all ages. I taught masterclasses at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada in 2003. I was a longtime student of Mark Dresser, and have also taken lessons or workshops with Mike Formanek, Barre Phillips, and Ken Filiano. I also teach electric bass.
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