Dave Young (bassist)

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Dave Young
Birth nameDavid Anthony Young
Born (1940-01-29) January 29, 1940 (age 82)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genres Jazz
Instruments Double bass

David Anthony Young (born January 29, 1940) is a Canadian double bassist.

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Career

Young played with jazz guitarist Lenny Breau in local gigs before studying music at Berklee College of Music and the Royal Conservatory of Music in the 1960s. [1] He played with a number of Canadian symphony orchestras in the 1970s and worked extensively in jazz with Kenny Barron, Gene DiNovi, Wray Downes, Tommy Flanagan, Oliver Jones, and Oscar Peterson. [2] He was honoured as a Young Member of the Order of Canada in 2006. He has the technique of performing bowed solos like Paul Chambers. [3]

Young has been nominated for nine Juno Awards, winning the 1994 Best Mainstream Jazz Album for Fables and Dreams with the Phil Dwyer Quartet.

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References

  1. Milkowski, Bill (1996). Northern Composure. JazzTimes, Inc.
  2. Mark Miller, "Dave Young". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
  3. McIverpublished, Joel (2022-07-13). "Dave Young: "When you were forced to transcribe stuff from records, that taught you something. It developed your ear and your sense of songwriting"". guitarworld. Retrieved 2022-07-20.