Dave Young (bassist)
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| Birth name | David Anthony Young |
| Born | January 29, 1940 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instruments | Double bass |
David Anthony Young (born January 29, 1940) is a Canadian double bassist.
Career
Young played with jazz guitarist
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.
Awards and nominations
- Au Privave - Wray Downes & Dave Young – Best Jazz Album (nominated, 1982)
- Fables and Dreams – Dave Young / Phil Dwyer Quartet – Best Mainstream Jazz Album (winner, 1984)
- Live at Bourbon St. – Lenny Breau with Dave Young – Best Mainstream Jazz Album (nominated, 1997)
- Two By Two, Piano Bass Duets, Vol. II – Dave Young – Best Mainstream Jazz Album (nominated, 1997)
- Inner Urge – Dave Young Trio – Best Mainstream Jazz Album (nominated, 1999)
- Mainly Mingus – Dave Young Quintet – Traditional Jazz Album of the Year (nominated, 2006)
- Aspects of Oscar – Dave Young Quintet – Traditional Jazz Album of the Year (nominated, 2012)
- Volume One – Dave Young/Terry Promane Octet – Traditional Jazz Album of the Year (nominated, 2013)
- One Way Up – Dave Young Quintet – Jazz Album of the Year: Group (nominated, 2017)
References
- ^ Milkowski, Bill (1996). Northern Composure. JazzTimes, Inc.
- The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
- ^ 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.
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