George DeLancey

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George DeLancey (born September 30, 1988 in Cambridge , Ohio ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

DeLancey played in the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra and studied jazz at Michigan State University , where he took lessons from Rodney Whitaker . In the course of his career so far he has worked in the midwestern and in New York a. a. with Johnny O'Neal , Wessell Anderson , Willie Jones III , Philip and Winard Harper , Christian Howes , Houston Person , Wynton Marsalis , Tia Fuller and Bria Skonberg . He has also worked as a musician and educator in programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center ( Jazz for Young People ), Christian Howes' Creative Strings Workshop and Keith Hall's Summer Drum Intensive . He also heads the Appalachian Muse art initiative .

In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions between 2012 and 2017, including a. with Lafayette Harris, Jr. ( Hangin 'with the Big Boys ), Esteban Castro, Allan Harris, Nancy Harrow and Ben Patterson . In 2013 he recorded a self-titled debut album with Mike Sailors, Walter Harris, Aaron Diehl , Stacy Dillard , Caleb Curtis , Tony Lustig and Lawrence Leathers, for which he also wrote compositions. In 2020 he presented the album Paradise , on which u. a. Caleb Wheeler Curtis , Jonathan Beshay , Robert Edwards , Tadataka Unno , Lawrence Leathers, and Tatum Greenblatt .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry (AllAboutJazz)
  2. a b George DeLancey. Smalls, December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 .
  3. a b Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 6, 2018)
  4. Meeting (AllAboutJazz)