Kent Kessler

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With the Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language 4TET at Club W71 , 2019
Kent Kessler ( mœrs festival 2010)

Kent Kessler (born January 28, 1957 in Crawfordsville (Indiana) ) is an American double bass player who has made a name for himself in the Chicago modern creative scene since 1980.

Live and act

Kessler grew up in Cape Cod and began playing the trombone at the age of ten . He has lived in Chicago since he was thirteen . As a student at St. Mary Center For Learning High School , he became interested in jazz and took private bass guitar lessons . Together with percussionist Michael Zerang and guitarists Dan Scanlan and Norbert Funk, he founded the Neutrino Orchestra in 1977 . After living in Brazil from 1980 to 1981, he studied at Roosevelt University in Chicago; together with Zerang he formed the group Musica Menta , with whom he regularly appeared locally.

Kessler, who joined in the coming years on the double bass, was founded in 1985 by Hal Russell in the NRG Ensemble brought with which he went to 1992 on European tours and several albums for ECM recorded. Since 1991 he has also worked with Ken Vandermark in different groups, for example with Vandermark 5 , the DKV Trio or its Territory Band . He also worked with Hamid Drake , Fred Anderson , Joe McPhee , Jeb Bishop and Peter Brötzmann (to whose Chicago Tentet he belongs), but also with Mats Gustafsson , Misha Mengelberg , Georg Graewe , Guillermo Gregorio and Luc Houtkamp . In 2003 Kessler released his solo album Bull Fiddle on Okka Disk .

Web links

Commons : Kent Kessler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Peter Margasak, Upright Citizen . Chicago Reader , January 24, 2003.
  2. ↑ Review of Bull Fiddle . Dusted Magazine , April 2, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Kent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Crawfordsville, Indiana