Mary Ann McSweeney

b. 27 Apr 1962, Santa Cruz, California, USA. McSweeney educated as a traditional musician, learning piano at age five, after that violin at eight. In her teenagers she performed concert shows on piano but while at junior senior high school started playing electrical bass. It had been in senior high school that she initial performed the acoustic bass and, right now was thinking about a career being a jazz musician therefore she decided this device as her principal means of appearance. At age 16, she made an appearance on the Monterey Jazz Celebration within a big music group aimed by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. In LA she examined at California Condition Northridge under Dave Teen who presented her to Ray Dark brown with whom she also examined, later learning to be a pupil of John Clayton. Furthermore to Dark brown and Clayton, McSweeney in addition has cited Richie Beirach as you of her mentors. Throughout a lot of the 80s, McSweeney proved helpful in LA jazz night clubs, at celebrations and studio classes. In 1993, as well as her spouse, valve trombonist Mike Fahn, she shifted to NY where she discovered focus on record times, at night clubs and in pit rings for most Broadway shows. She’s made an appearance at jazz celebrations in america and European countries. Among several and diverse performers with whom she’s performed are Lynne Arriale, Dizzy Gillespie, Donny McCaslin, Rick Margitza, Sherrie Maricle’s big music group, DIVA, and Jimmy Witherspoon, in addition to with traditional organizations under Leonard Bernstein, Lalo Schifrin and John Williams. Theoretically accomplished and extremely inventive, McSweeney’s playing can be complemented by her substantial gifts like a composer and arranger. In the first 00s, McSweeney led her personal organizations for concert, golf club and recording times, also appearing frequently as sideman with many market leaders including her spouse.