60 Melodic Etudes
John Patitucci has been at the forefront of the jazz world for the last twenty years and active in all styles of music. He is a two-time Grammy award winner and has been nominated eleven times. He has won many magazine polls and awards as a double bassist and bass guitarist, most recently as a member of the Wayne Shorter Quartet which won the 2003 Downbeat critics' poll for Best Acoustic Jazz Group and Best Jazz Recording for Footprints - Live!. He has performed and/or recorded with jazz giants such as Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Brecker, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Kenny Garrett, Victor Feldman and countless others. John has been active as a composer with eleven solo recordings of his own. He has also been commissioned to write for various chamber music groups, most recently the New York-based string quartet Elementss. John was nominated for a Grammy in 2003 for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal for his arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter from his CD song, Stories and Spirituals. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2002 for Best Instrumental Composition for a piece entitled Communion that featured Branford Marsalis, Brad Mehldau and violist Lawrence Dutton for the Emerson String Quartet. Mr. Patitucci has been involved in education for many years, writing books, making instructional videos and giving master classes around the world. He was formerly the Artistic Director of The Bass Collective, a specialized school in New York. In 2002, he began teaching at The City College of New York (CUNY) and was named Associate Professor of Music there in 2003.