Corcoran Holt
Corcoran Holt (* 1982 ) is an American musician ( double bass ) of modern jazz .
Live and act
Holt, who is from Washington DC, started playing djembe and other West African percussion instruments at the age of 4 as a member of the Wose Dance Company . He started playing bass in the DC Youth Orchestra when he was ten. Only then did he find out that his great-grandfather was also a bass player and neighbor of John Coltrane . Between 1996 and 2000 he completed his education at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts . In 2004 he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in jazz at the Shenandoah Conservatory , where he studied bass with Michael Bowie; He received his master's degree from Queens College in New York City in 2006 under the direction of Buster Williams , Michael Mossman and Antonio Hart .
He then worked in the New York jazz scene with musicians such as Javon Jackson , Curtis Fuller , Frank Morgan , Slide Hampton , Benny Powell and Delfeayo Marsalis . He currently plays regularly in the bands of Kenny Garrett , with whom he has toured Europe, and Josh Evans . In the field of jazz he was involved in 30 recording sessions between 2005 and 2018, including a. with Phil Woods , Steve Turré , Wycliffe Gordon , Brian Settles , Camille Thurman and McClenty Hunter . In 2016 he released the album The Mecca under his own name .
Web links
- Web presence
- interview
- Corcoran Holt at Allmusic (English)
- Corcoran Holt at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Corcoran Holt. Smalls, April 1, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 15, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holt, Corcoran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (double bass) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |