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Dave Young (bassist)

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Dave Young
Birth nameDavid Anthony Young
Born (1940-01-29) January 29, 1940 (age 84)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
GenresJazz
InstrumentsDouble bass

David Anthony Young (born January 29, 1940) is a Canadian double bassist.

Career

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Milkowski, Bill (1996). Northern Composure. JazzTimes, Inc.
  2. ^ Mark Miller, "Dave Young". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
  3. ^ 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.