MICHAEL BLANCO
Genres: Post Bop, Hard Bop • United States

Michael Blanco is an acoustic and electric bassist living in New York City. He is also a jazz composer and two-time recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award (2005, 2006) whose third album of original music, Spirit Forward, was released on October 7, 2016 on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records. Spirit Forward features eight new original compositions and an all-star band: saxophonist John Ellis, pianist Kevin Hays, and drummer Clarence Penn. Spirit Forward made Ralph A. Miriello's Best of Jazz 2016 list at the Huffington Post, and Jay Miller's Best Jazz Albums of 2016 list at The Patriot Ledger. Since moving to New York City in 2000, Michael has performed and recorded with a wide variety of artists at the forefront of the contemporary jazz scene, including saxophonists John Ellis, Rich Perry, Donny McCaslin, Jon Irabagon, and Will Vinson; guitarists Lage Lund, Jonathan Kreisberg, Gilad Hekselman, and Mary Halvorson; pianists read more...