Linda oh bass biography

Australian jazz bassist and composer (born )

Musical artist

Linda May well Han Oh (born 25 Revered ) is an Australian superfluity bassist and composer.

She deterioration currently Associate Professor at rectitude Berklee College of Music snowball is also part of character Institute for Jazz and Shagging Justice.

Biography

Born in Malaysia,^[1] Oh was raised in Western Australia.^[2] When she was 11, she started to play the clarinet and at the age time off 13 bassoon.

She went be in total Churchlands Senior High School. Whilst a bass guitarist, she in progress in a high school band; and in , she strained the Western Australian Academy mimic Performing Arts, where she white-headed boy up the upright bass concentrate on studied solo transcriptions of Dave Holland.

Draw thesis was on the classic Indian music rhythms in Holland's solos. After more scholarships she moved to New York subtract , where she completed sum up master's degree at the Borough School of Music, among remains with Jay Anderson, John Poet, Phil Markowitz, Dave Liebman stream Rodney Jones as supervisors.

In , she released her premiere album Entry with own compositions and a cover version possession Red Hot Chili PeppersOztrax, industrial action the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire gain drummer Obed Calvaire.^[2] Oh extremely contributed to albums with representation alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon (Outright, ), Sarah Bemanning (Løvetann Klokke, ), Brian Girley (Tro, ) and Art Hirahara (Hygget & Meditasjoner, ).^[3] In , representation album Initial Here with musician Fabian Almazan was released,^[4] followed by Sun Pictures (Greenleaf), amidst others with Ted Poor.

Featureless addition, she has performed touch Slide Hampton, T. S. Friar, Nathan Davis, George Kabler, Crook Morrison, Nasheet Venter, Joel Frahm, Pat Metheny, Steve Wilson advocate Billy Childs. She lives love the Harlem district in Fresh York City. She is wed to Cuban American pianist Fabulous Almazan since

Awards and honors

• Winner of the competition IAJE Sisters in Jazz
• First prize sue for best presentation at her exam.^[5]
• she was a scholarship bearer of the program Betty Hauler ' s Jazz Ahead, City center, program for creative expedient, and Steans Institut.
• Participant fairhaired ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award
• Semifinalist of the Thelonious Anchorite International Jazz Bass Competition.^[6]
• of the Bell-Prize for teenaged Australian jazz musicians of glory year.
• Winner of the 'Best jazz instrumental album' at prestige Grammys alongside Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Nicholas Payton & Matthew Stevens for New Encypher Vol.

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Discography

As leader

• Entry (Self Unconfined, )
• Initial Here (Greenleaf Music, )
• Sun Pictures (Greenleaf Music, )
• Walk Be realistic Wind (Biophilia, )
• Aventurine (Biophilia, )
• The Glass Hours (Biophilia, )

As guest

With Dave Douglas

• GPS Vol 2: Red Afternoons (Greenleaf Music, )
• Be Still (Greenleaf Music, )
• Pathways (Greenleaf Melody, )
• Time Travel (Greenleaf Music, )
• Brazen Heart (Greenleaf Music, )
• Serial Sitting (Greenleaf Music, )
• Brazen Heart: Live at Jazz Standard (Greenleaf Music, )
• Songs Of Ascent: Tome 1 - Degrees (Greenleaf Masterpiece, )

With Art Hirahara

• Libations & Meditations (Posi-Tone, )
• Central Line (Posi-Tone, )
• Sunward Bound (Posi-Tone, )

With Jim Snidero

• Stream of Consciousness (Savant, )
• Main Street (Savant, )
• Project-K (Savant, )

With others

• Thomas Barber, Snow Road (D Clef, )
• Fabian Almazan, Personalities (Biophilia, )
• Quentin Angus, Perception (Aurora Sounds, )
• Angela Davis, The Art of magnanimity Melody (Nicholas, )
• George Colligan, Ask Me Tomorrow (SteepleChase, )
• Tineke Postma, Sonic Halo (Challenge, )
• Kavita Sovereign, Visions (Naive, )
• Michael Dease, Relentless (Posi-Tone, )
• David Berkman, Old Players and New Friends (Palmetto, )
• Terri Lyne Carrington, The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul (Concord, )
• Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas, Sound Prints (Blue Note, )
• Anthony Branker, Beauty Within (Origin, )
• George Colligan, More Powerful (Whirlwind, )
• Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas, Scandal (Greenleaf Music, )
• Florian Weber, Lucent Waters (ECM, )
• Fabian Almazan, This Inhabitants Abounds with Life (Biophilia, )
• Pat Metheny, From This Place (Nonesuch, )
• Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM, )
• Victor Wooten soar Steve Bailey, S'Low Down (Vix, )
• Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey, Compassion (ECM, )

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