Simon Willson

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Simon Willson (* approx. 1995 in Chile ) is a Chilean modern jazz musician ( double bass ) who works in the United States .

Live and act

After taking a preparatory course at the Escuela Moderna de Music in Santiago de Chile , Wilsson decided to continue his music studies in the USA and completed a bachelor's degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston in 2015 . Since moving to New York City in August 2017, he has worked and toured with various artists in Europe, the United States and South America. He has worked as a sideman with a number of relevant jazz musicians including Ethan Iverson , Steve Cardenas , Steve Cardenas , Steve Cardenas , Jim Black , Jason Palmer , George Garzone , Frank Carlberg and Noah Preminger . In addition to his work as a backing musician, he is co-director of the bands Great on Paper, Family Plan and Earprint . With the latter, he won the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll in 2016 in the “Best Debut Album” category . First recordings were made with Anthony Coleman , as well as with Great On Paper and Eraprint .

Discographic notes

  • Anthony Coleman ( The End of Summer , Tzadik , 2013)
  • Great On Paper (Endectomorph, 2015), with Kevin Sun , Isaac Wilson, Robin Baytas
  • Earprint (Endectomorph, 2016), with Tree Palmedo, Kevin Sun, Dor Herskovits
  • Jason Palmer: At Wally's Volume 2 (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great on Paper
  2. ↑ Simon Willson, bass. Smalls, August 1, 2019, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 21, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Willson, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Chile