Next Gig:

September 11, 2010
Cafe Metropol,
923 E 3rd St,
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 613-1537
www.cafemetropol.com

Kevin Kanner Quintet
Kevin Kanner—Drums
Graham Dechter—Guitar
TBA—Piano
Dontae Winslow—Trumpet
Mike Gurrola—Bass

BIO I am an Acoustic and Electric Bassist In the Los Angeles area. From 2006-2009 I attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA). In 2006 I was selected as the bass player for the SCSBOA (Southern California School Bands and Orchestra Association www.scsboa.org) All-Southern California Junior High Jazz All Stars band. In July 2006 I attended the Centrum Jazz Workshop directed by John Clayton in Port Townsend, Washington. In 2007 I won an outstanding soloist award at the Berklee High School Jazz Festival, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2008 I won an outstanding soloist award at the Monterey Next Generation High School Jazz festival, and in 2009 I won another outstanding soloist award at the Berklee High School jazz Festival. On April 27 - May 4, 2008 I performed with my high school Jazz Combo on a week long tour of Anchorage, Alaska with Jazz legend Bobby Watson, as part of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Peer to Peer Informance Program. In September 2008 I played at the Monterey Jazz Festival with the The 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra (NGJO). In July 2008 the NGJO met in Boston for an intense few days of rehearsals and then we flew to the Netherlands to play at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam and also did a recording and a performance at the Berklee College of Music. Also in the summer of 2008, I attended the Berklee College of Music Five Week Summer Workshop. This workshop is by invitation and scholarship only for 10 to 15 selected students (enough for two small combos). It was directed by amazing and world-renowned drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and incredible Saxophonist Rick Dimuzio, who are both on the faculty at Berklee. In Spring of 2009, I was selected once again to be the bassist in the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra (NGJO). In July, 2009 the NGJO performed in Kansas City at the Musician's Union Hall and the American Jazz Museum and then we went on a bus tour to perform in St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC at the Kennedy Center - Millennium Stage. On September 20th, 2009 I performed with the 2009 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra on the Arena Stage with Artist in Residence, Wynton Marsalis. I have been taking bass lessons continuously, first with Zac Matthews and now with Dennis Trembly and John Clayton. Along the way I have also taken bass lessons with David Young, Bob Hurst, Carlitos del Puerto, Sam Minaie, Joe Sanders, and Derrick Finch. I have been playing regularly for the past few years at some of the best jazz clubs in LA, such as Catalina's Bar and Grill, The Jazz Bakery, The Pasadena Jazz Institute, Cafe 322, The Foundry, The Light House Cafe, Cafe Metropol, and several other local clubs. In September 2007 I was the featured artist in the Young Artist Jazz Series produced by Barbara Brighton at Catalina's. I have had the great honor and opportunity to play with many great musicians along the way, such as Benny Green, Wynton Marsalis, Kendrick Scott, Walter Smith, Christian McBride, Jeb Patton, Carl Allen, Gerry Gibbs, Bruce Foreman, Julian Lage, Randy Napoleon, and many many others. I dream of further developing my musical journeys in New York at a conservatory someday.