Brian Sandstrom
Brian Sandstrom (* approx. 1960) is an American jazz musician ( double bass , also trumpet , guitar , trombone , percussion) who is active in the Chicago music scene .
Live and act
Sandstrom graduated from Southern Illinois University with a bachelor's degree in bass performance and played as a trumpeter, bassist and electric guitarist in Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble from the early 1980s , for which he also wrote compositions. He went on several European tours with the ensemble, documented on the ECM albums The Finnish / Swiss Tour (1990) and The Hal Russell Story (1992). In the 1990s, he also worked with Michael Mason , Doug Blake , Frank Portolese , Frank Catalano , Von Freeman , Johnny Frigo , Ira Sullivan , Clifford Jordan and Ken Vandermark ; from the mid-2000s also with Jim Baker and Jim Holman . In the field of jazz he was involved in 23 recording sessions between 1981 and 2009. Sandstrom teaches double bass and electric bass at the Skokie School of Music.
Discographic notes
- Jim Baker, Steve Hunt , Brian Sandstrom, Mars Williams : Extraordinary Popular Delusions ( Okka Disk , 2007)
Web links
- Portrait at Umbrella Music
- Brian Sandstrom at Allmusic (English)
- Brian Sandstrom at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 25, 2014)
- ↑ http://www.skokieschoolofmusic.com/6401.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sandstrom, Brian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (double bass, trumpet, guitar, trombone, percussion) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1960 |