 Bio
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Since
his arrival to New York in 1999 Bob Gingery has been performing with
some of the city's top musicians including Eliot Zigmund, Joe Beck,
Buddy Williams, Alan Harris, Ron Afif, Brad Shepik and Lou Volpe. He
has played at the Blue Note, Birdland, the Hartford International Jazz
Festival, Joe's Pub and the Knitting Factory. Maintaining a busy
schedule as both a sideman and band leader, he is at home with many
styles of music and has performed and recorded with jazz, rock, pop,
r'n'b and latin artists, musicals and symphony orchestras.
Bob
is also active as an educator. He is a faculty memeber at Concordia
Conservatory in Bronxville, NY. Working with the nonprofit organization
Music Crossing Borders, he helps to teach students about the music of
cultures from around the world. He has also been a clinician for the
Westchester Community College's Jazz Master Class since 2001.
Originally
from the San Francisco bay area, he began playing the saxophone at age
10 but the sounds of James Jamerson, Rocco Prestia, and Jaco
Pastorius inspired him to pick up the bass guitar. He was soon gigging
with local rock bands and playing in his high school's jazz band. At
age 18 he began studying the upright bass. He holds undergraduate
degrees in music from Berklee College of Music and California State
University, Chico and a Masters Degree in music from the City College
of New York where he studied with Ron Carter, John Patitucci, and Geri
Allen.
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