SEEKING
Upright bass.ABOUT
I have played professionally for many years both in the Dallas/Fort Worth and Chicago areas. I was out of music for a long while and then started seriously practicing again about 12 years ago, using the various Jazz study tools that I was taught while attending North Texas State University. I will retire from N.I.U IT department at the end of May. My goal now is not to play professionally again. My interest is in playing with musicians who are practicing on their own and who want to play music with the feeling of "art for arts sake". The type of gig I would be interested in really hardly exists at all and that would be playing on a tuned piano in front of people who come to actually listen to musicians playing a "non-obtrusive" form of Jazz.
- Screen name:
- dan2004
- Member since:
- Apr 22 2014
- Active within 1 week
- Level of commitment:
- Very Committed
- Years playing music:
- 50
- Gigs played:
- Over 100
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
Influences
Bill Evans has been my greatest teacher although I never met him. I have transcribed a lot of his playing and never ever tire of repeatedly listening to anything he has recorded. Others include Keith Jarret, Ahmad Jamal, Modern Jazz Quartet, Chick Corea....list is seemingly endless...
Instrument experience:
- Piano:
- Advanced
EQUIPMENT
Mason & Hamlin Grand Piano, 6 ft. built 1989. Sounds incredible..
ProTools 11 Recording studio
My website is:
www.DansPianoJazz.com
Just two tunes posted there for now. Recorded them back in 2011. Working on a lot of different things which I am going to try and record so that I can post them this summer...
Thanks,
Dan
