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DAVE  YOUNG


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“To my way of thinking, Dave Young is one of the most talented bassists on the jazz scene. His harmonic sympatico and unerring sense of time have kept him in the foreground of the jazz picture.” - Oscar Peterson

Dave Young

Photo credit:  Dan Nawrocki

Dave Young (bassist) was born on January 29, 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  He began studying the guitar and violin when he was 10 years old, but a turn of events at his first gig (a university dance band) compelled him to pick up the bass.  Educated as both a jazz and a classical player, Young’s elegant performances with the late guitarist Lenny Breau are legendary.  He was a member of the Lenny Breau Quartet in live performance and recording for five years from 1961 to 1966.  Dave Young’s professional relationship with jazz giant Oscar Peterson spanned three decades during which he played in the Oscar Peterson Trio in appearances all over the world up until Peterson’s death.

Young is equally comfortable with symphonic work and acoustic jazz.  As classical artist, he was the principal Double Bassist for a number of years with the Edmonton and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras as well as with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a jazz artist, he has collaborated with the genre’s brightest luminaries including Oscar Peterson, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Joe Williams, Oliver Jones, Lenny Breau, Rob McConnell, Phil Dwyer, Michel Lambert, John Hicks, Mulgrew Miller, Tommy Flanagan, Ellis Marsalis, Barry Harris, Kenny Barron, Cyrus Chestnut, Cedar Walton, Peter Appleyard, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Kenny Burrell, Hank Jones, Nat Adderly, Gary Burton, Barney Kessel, Ed Bickert, Ranee Lee, Marcus Belgrave, Don Thompson, and James Moody.

Source:  Canada Jazz




Dave Young
Awards/Achievements

1982 - June Nominee, Best Jazz Album, Au Privave (with Wray Downes)
1994 - Juno Award, Best Mainstream Jazz Album, Fables and Dreams (with co-leader Phil Dwyer)
1994 - Jazz Report Award, Acoustic Bassist of the Year
1996 - Jazz Report Award, Acoustic Bassist of the Year
1996 - Jazz Report Award, Jazz Album of the Year, Two by Two: Volume One
1997 - Jazz Report Award, Acoustic Bassist of the Year
1997 - Jazz Report Award, Musician of the Year
1997 - Juno Nominee, Best Mainstream Jazz Album, Live at Bourbon St.
1998 - Jazz Report Award, Acoustic Bassist of the Year
1998 - Jazz Report Award, Musician of the Year
1999 - Juno Nominee, Best Mainstream Jazz Album, Inner Urge
2003 - International Association for Jazz Education for Outstanding Service to Jazz
2003 - National Jazz Awards, Bassist of the Year
2004 - National Jazz Awards, Bassist of the Year
2005 - National Jazz Awards, Bassist of the Year
2006 - Juno Nominee, Jazz Album of the Year, Mainly Mingus
2006 - National Jazz Awards, Acoustic Group of the Year, Dave Young Quintet
2006 - National Jazz Awards, Bassist of the Year
2006 - Member of the Order of Canada on October 5, 2006; Invested on February 22, 2008
2007 - National Jazz Awards, Bassist of the Year
2008 - Oscar Peterson Award by the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.
2012 - Juno Nominee, Traditional Jazz Album, Aspects of Oscar
2013 - Juno Nominee, Traditional Jazz Album, Volume One (with Terry Promane Octet)
2017 - Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from Wilfrid Laurier University
2017 - Juno Nominee, Jazz Album of the Year, One Way Up
2020 - Juno Nominee, Jazz Album of the Year, Trouble in Mind


Dave Young also teaches music seminars and master classes and is a member of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.

Compiled from the following sources:



January 26, 2022 Interview with Dave Young, conducted by Bob Bakert of Jazz Guitar.



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