Bass. Experimental and otherwise.

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Jeff Schwartz

Jeff plays double bass in Surrealestate, the Multi-Ethnic Star Orchestra, Rich West's Homunculus, the Watts Ensemble and Melic Sub Rosa. Jeff studies with David H. Young. Active in LA's avant-garde music scene, he has performed at events and venues including Line Space Line, the Open Gate and Lira concert series, Il Corral, Dangerous Curve, the Edgemar Center for the Arts, Disney Hall, 21 Grand, REDCAT, the Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, LA Sound/Shift, the Long Beach Soundwalk, the Vancouver Jazz Festival, and the Silverlake Film Festival. He has given conference papers on music and cultural studies and published in journals and anthologies including American Music, Popular Music, Postmodern Culture, The Velvet Underground Companion, and A Basic Music Library. He was the first biographer of Albert Ayler and a consultant for Revenant Records' Grammy-nominated Holy Ghost box set. An adaptation of his dissertation on the politics of free jazz is under consideration at a major university press. Dr. Schwartz is currently a reference librarian at the Santa Monica Public Library.