Drew Gress

NY bassist Drew Gress became increasingly noticeable in modern improvised music through the entire 1980s and 1990s. In the past due ’80s, he co-founded the quartet JV, which released three albums on Enja spanning 1987-1994. Later on, Gress led his very own N.Con.-structured quartet, Jagged Sky, who released their debut, Heyday, in 1998 in Soul Note. The past due ’90s also discovered Gress executing and documenting in Paraphrase, an improvising trio with Tim Berne and Tom Rainey. Paraphrase released two CDs through the 1990s on Berne’s Screwgun label: Visitation Rites in 1997, and 1999’s Make sure you Advise. Gress provides performed across European countries; Asia; and North, Central, and SOUTH USA. He has offered as artist-in-residence at College or university of Colorado-Boulder and Russia’s St. Petersburg Conservatory, and it has received grants or loans from Meet up with the Composer as well as the NEA. As well as the groups mentioned previously, Gress also performs in lots of other tasks, including Erik Friedlander’s Chimera, the Fred Hersch Trio, the Don Byron Quartet, and Dave Douglas’ string group, which released an record on Soul Take note entitled Convergence in 1999.