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 continued playing gigs w/ big bands, singer/songwriters,  jazz and funk bands and theatre productions while studying at Berklee College of Music. I graduated from Berklee in 1994 with honors.

 

After graduating from Berklee I continued giging and 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. I also was a instrumental and general music teacher in the Brookline, MA public schools for 8 years. I love instrumental jazz, funk and rock and currently play gigs with my own group and freelance with several local artists as well as teach private bass lessons in my home studio.

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