I grew up in New York and started playing piano around four years old. My mother, who is a jazz pianist and singer, was my main inspiration. While growing up I played piano and wrote songs  and always felt a strong connection with music. In my teens I picked up the electric bass and fell in love with it right away. I started out playing in rock and blues bands and later got into to jazz. I moved to Boston and graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1994.

 

I love instrumental jazz, funk and rock and play gigs with my own group and freelance with local artists. After graduating from Berklee, I have continued my own education with graduate courses in jazz improvisation with Philadelphia based pianist Jimmy Amadie and jazz arranging techniques with trombonist Phil Wilson, and bass studies with the great jazz bassist Bruce Gertz. Most recently I studied advanced improvisation techniques on electric bass with the amazing jazz master Charlie Banacos. 

 

My CD "Between Earth and Sky” has seven of my originals and two of my arrangements of standard tunes. The album was recorded "live in the studio" with some amazing musicians. Check out clips here or at myspace.com/alisonkeslow