Michael Dease

Last updated
Michael Dease
Born (1982-08-25) August 25, 1982 (age 42)
Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
Genres Jazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentTrombone
Years active2002–present
LabelsJazz Legacy, Bluesback, D-Clef, Posi-Tone
Website www.michaeldease.com

Michael Patrick Dease (born August 25, 1982) is an American jazz tenor and bass trombonist, composer and producer. He also plays saxophone, trumpet, flugelhorn, bass and piano.

Contents

Biography

Michael Dease was born in Augusta, Georgia and attended John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet High School, where he studied saxophone and voice. During his time as a high school student he achieved all-state honors on the latter instrument for three years in a row.

At age 17, Michael taught himself to play trombone, and was soon invited to join the inaugural class of the Juilliard jazz studies program by Wycliffe Gordon. [1] Dease would go on to earn both his bachelor's and master's degrees while at the school. His teachers included Wycliffe Gordon, Steve Turre, Vincent Gardner, John Drew and Joseph Alessi. While at Juilliard, Dease won many awards, including the Frank Rosolino Award, J.J. Johnson Award, the Sammy Nestico Jazz Composers Award, ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, and the Fish Middleton Jazz Competition. [2]

He began his career in Illinois Jacquet's Big Band in 2002, and has performed as a featured member of the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, Christian McBride Big Band, Roy Hargrove Big Band, Nicholas Payton Big Band, Jimmy Heath Big Band and the Charles Tolliver Big Band. Dease also performs with small groups led by Claudio Roditi, Rodney Whitaker, Wycliffe Gordon, and David Sanborn. In addition to performance, Dease serves and president and producer at his jazz record label, D Clef Records. [3]

Dease has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. Previous engagements include the Nice Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Tims Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival and the Spoleto Music Festival. He was a guest artist at the International Trombone Festival June 22–25, 2011 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dease's album Grace (2010) received excellent reviews from publications such as Jazz Times, All About Jazz and The Guardian (UK). [4]

Michael Dease was interviewed by Linus Wyrsch on "The Jazz Hole" for breakthruradio.com in April 2013 - Michael Dease Interview by breakthruradio.com Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine

Educator

Dease had conducted master classes and workshops at universities and conservatories around the world, including the University of Costa Rica, Osaka University, Michigan State University, Augusta State University, Broward College, Simpson College, Scranton University, and Northeastern University.

Currently Dease holds the position of Associate Professor of Jazz Trombone at the Michigan State University College of Music. He has also held similar positions at Queens College, CUNY, and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City. Dease performs exclusively on Yamaha Trombones, and plays the YSL-891Z.

Discography

As leader

  • The Takeover (Self-released, 2005)
  • Dease Bones (D-Clef, 2007)
  • Clarity (BluesBack Records, 2008)
  • Grace (Jazz Legacy Productions, 2010)
  • Coming Home (D-Clef, 2013)
  • Relentless (Posi-Tone, 2014)
  • Decisions (Posi-Tone, 2015)
  • Let's Get Real (Spice of Life [Japan], 2015)
  • Father Figure (Posi-Tone, 2016)
  • All These Hands (Posi-Tone, 2017)
  • Reaching Out (Posi-Tone, 2018)
  • Bonafide (Posi-Tone, 2018)
  • Never More Here (Posi-Tone, 2019)
  • Give It All You Got (Posi-Tone, 2021)
  • Best Next Thing (Posi-Tone, 2022)
  • The Other Shoe: The Music of Greg Hill (Origin Records, 2023)

As sideman

with Sharel Cassity

  • Relentless (Jazz Legacy Productions, 2009)

with Matthew Garrison

  • Familiar Places (D-Clef, 2010)

with Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band

with Illinois Jacquet

  • Swingin' Live With Illinois Jacquet: His Final Performance (Jacquet, 2006)

with Alicia Keys

with Christian McBride Big Band

with Claudio Roditi

with Charles Tolliver Big Band

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trombone</span> Brass instrument played with a slide

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones use a telescoping slide mechanism to alter the pitch instead of the valves used by other brass instruments. The valve trombone is an exception, using three valves similar to those on a trumpet, and the superbone has valves and a slide.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baritone horn</span> Low-pitched brass instrument

The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical, like the smaller and higher pitched flugelhorn and tenor horn, but it has a narrower bore compared to the similarly pitched euphonium. It uses a wide-rimmed cup mouthpiece like that of its peers, the trombone and euphonium. Like the trombone and the euphonium, the baritone horn can be considered either a transposing or non-transposing instrument.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Davis (trombonist)</span> American jazz trombonist

Steve Davis is an American jazz trombonist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Todd Coolman</span> American jazz musician

Todd Coolman is a jazz bassist and a retired tenured Professor of Music at the Jazz Studies Program in the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in Westchester County, New York. He is also the former Artistic Director of the Skidmore Jazz Institute.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Conrad Herwig</span> American jazz trombonist

Lee Conrad Herwig III is an American jazz trombonist from New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Randy Napoleon</span> American jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger

Randy Napoleon is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger who tours nationally and internationally. He has also toured with the Freddy Cole Quartet, Benny Green, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra led by John Clayton, Jeff Clayton, and Jeff Hamilton, Rene Marie, and with Michael Bublé.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marshall Gilkes</span> American jazz trombonist and composer (born 1978)

Marshall Gilkes is an American jazz trombonist and composer.

Henry Coker was an American jazz trombonist.

Ralph Bowen is a Canadian jazz saxophonist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Posi-Tone Records</span> Record label

Posi-Tone Records is an American jazz record label founded by Marc Free, a producer and musician who runs the company with engineer Nick O'Toole. The label's first five albums were issued in 1995.

<i>The Good Feeling</i> 2011 studio album by Christian McBride Big Band

The Good Feeling is a studio album by the Christian McBride Big Band. It won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012. The record was released on September 27, 2011 via the Mack Avenue label.

The Christian McBride Big Band is a 17-piece big band whose debut album The Good Feeling received the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ryan Keberle</span> Musical artist (born 1980)

Ryan Keberle is an American trombone player, composer, arranger, and educator. Described by The New York Times as a "trombonist of vision and composure", he leads Ryan Keberle & Catharsis, Collectiv do Brasil, his All Ears Orchestra, the Big Band Living Legacy Project and co-leads the international chamber jazz ensemble, Reverso. Keberle has performed with David Bowie, Maria Schneider, Wynton Marsalis, Darcy James Argue, Alicia Keys, and Sufjan Stevens, among others, and has appeared on seven Grammy Award-winning records.

Peter and Will Anderson are identical twin American jazz saxophonists and clarinetists, composers and arrangers, and leaders of their own trio and quintet.

Roxy Coss is a saxophonist, activist and composer based in New York. She is the winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award and has attracted attention from major music magazines and organizations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Linda May Han Oh</span> Australian jazz bassist and composer (born 1984)

Linda May Han Oh is an Australian jazz bassist and composer. She is currently Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music and is also part of the Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexa Tarantino</span> American jazz musician

Alexa Tarantino is an American jazz saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer and educator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sharel Cassity</span> Musical artist

Sharel Cassity is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator based in Chicago, having lived in New York City from 2000 to 2016. She is a winner of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer, is in the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, has performed internationally in 27 countries, and is faculty at DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, and Elgin Community College in Illinois teaching Jazz Pedagogy, classical saxophone jazz saxophone, classical flute, and piano. In addition to recording several albums, she has toured with her band internationally and has been featured with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 2020.

Immanuel Wilkins is an American jazz saxophonist.

<i>Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note</i> 2009 live album by Charles Tolliver Big Band

Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note is a live album by the Charles Tolliver Big Band, led by trumpeter and composer Charles Tolliver. It was recorded on July 10 and 11, 2008, at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City, and was issued in 2009 by Half Note Records, Tolliver's first release as a leader for the label.

References

  1. ↑ "Michael Dease Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic .
  2. ↑ "Michael Dease Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic .
  3. ↑ "Michael Dease Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic .
  4. ↑ "Michael Dease: Grace – review". TheGuardian.com . 23 October 2010.

1.http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michael-dease-p1008210/biography 2.http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/24/michael-dease-grace-review

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.