Chris Tarry

Chris Tarry is a Canadian born electric bass player born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan on Aug 24th, 1970 and is considered by many to be one of Canada's top electric bass players.

Chris came to prominence in 1996 though his involvement with the Juno Award winning jazz group Metalwood featuring Mike Murley, Ian Froman and Brad Turner. His success as Metalwood's bass player lead to many different album appearances as a sideman and gained him national recognition throughout Canada.

In 2003 Chris left Canada and moved to New York City where he quickly became one of the cities top electric bass players. Since relocating to New York Chris has worked with such players and groups as John Scofield, Ben Monder, Adam Rogers, Mino Cinelu, Dave Binney, the Jim Rotondi Group, Keith Carlock, Anton Fig, Donny McCaslin, Lew Soloff, Chris Cheek, the Oz Noy Trio, Gene Jackson, DJ Logic, the Mahavishnu Project, and many others.

Since 1993 Chris has also led his own jazz group called "The Chris Tarry Group" and has released eight solo albums under that name. The band's latest recording, 2007's "Almost Certainly Dreaming" features New York musicans Pete McCann, Dan Weiss, Henry Hey, Canadian saxophonist Kelly Jefferson, and is released on the American record label Nineteen Eight Records.

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