Dave Young (bassist)
Canadian double bassist (born 1940)
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David Anthony Young (born January 29, 1940) is a Canadian double bassist.
Dave Young | |
|---|---|
| Born | David Anthony Young January 29, 1940 |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instruments | Double bass |
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.
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)
