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"Reunion Blues has a well-deserved reputation for making the best quality instrument cases in the world, and I use them for all my basses!"
Jeff Denson is an award-winning bassist, vocalist, and composer who has released 16 albums as a leader or co-leader and toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. He's toured with his own groups and others at some of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals such as the Village Vanguard, Birdland Jazz Club, The Kennedy Center, JVC Jazz Festival Paris, Montreal Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, and SFJazz, among many others.
He has worked with some of jazz’s finest artists such as Brian Blade, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Mike Stern, Charles McPherson, Billy Childs, Jane Ira Bloom, Craig Handy, Ingird Jensen, Dave Douglas, Walter Smith III, Kendrick Scott, Rachel Z, Omar Hakim, Gerald Cleaver, Anat Cohen, Warren Wolf, Leo Genovese, Etienne Charles, Edward Simon, Paul McCandless, Cuong Vu, Ralph Alessi, Dan Weiss, Lionel Loueke, Mark Turner, Paul Hanson, George Cables, Romain Pilon, Mimi Fox, and many others. Jeff had an ongoing relationship with the legendary Lee Konitz for over a decade until his passing in 2020.
His work has been reviewed in many of the world’s leading periodicals including The New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, along with many more international periodicals. Jeff has been ranked in the DownBeat Rising Star Critic's Poll 16 times in the Bass, Electric Bass and Male Vocalist categories, and was the First Place Winner of the 69th Annual DownBeat Magazine Rising Star Critic’s Poll for “Electric Bass” in 2021.
Jeff is the Founder and President of Ridgeway Arts, Inc. a 501c3 arts nonprofit organization and the Dean of Instruction at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley.
Jeff Denson
"Reunion Blues has a well-deserved reputation for making the best quality instrument cases in the world, and I use them for all my basses!"
Jeff Denson is an award-winning bassist, vocalist, and composer who has released 16 albums as a leader or co-leader and toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. He's toured with his own groups and others at some of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals such as the Village Vanguard, Birdland Jazz Club, The Kennedy Center, JVC Jazz Festival Paris, Montreal Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, and SFJazz, among many others.
He has worked with some of jazz’s finest artists such as Brian Blade, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Mike Stern, Charles McPherson, Billy Childs, Jane Ira Bloom, Craig Handy, Ingird Jensen, Dave Douglas, Walter Smith III, Kendrick Scott, Rachel Z, Omar Hakim, Gerald Cleaver, Anat Cohen, Warren Wolf, Leo Genovese, Etienne Charles, Edward Simon, Paul McCandless, Cuong Vu, Ralph Alessi, Dan Weiss, Lionel Loueke, Mark Turner, Paul Hanson, George Cables, Romain Pilon, Mimi Fox, and many others. Jeff had an ongoing relationship with the legendary Lee Konitz for over a decade until his passing in 2020.
His work has been reviewed in many of the world’s leading periodicals including The New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, along with many more international periodicals. Jeff has been ranked in the DownBeat Rising Star Critic's Poll 16 times in the Bass, Electric Bass and Male Vocalist categories, and was the First Place Winner of the 69th Annual DownBeat Magazine Rising Star Critic’s Poll for “Electric Bass” in 2021.
Jeff is the Founder and President of Ridgeway Arts, Inc. a 501c3 arts nonprofit organization and the Dean of Instruction at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley.