Tom Abbs

Tom Abbs (born 1972 in Seattle, Washington) is an American jazz musician (bass, cello, tuba and violin, didgeridoo, flute), filmmaker and music manager.

The multi-instrumentalist Tom Abbs grew up in Washington State and lives in Brooklyn, New York since 1991. He studied at the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music in the program, including Reggie Workman, Buster Williams, Joe Chambers, Brian Smith, Junior Mance, Arnie Lawrence, Chico Hamilton and Art Taylor. Since 1992 he has worked as a professional musician among other things with Lawrence " Butch" Morris, Charles Gayle, Daniel Carter, Cooper -Moore, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Ori Kaplan, Jemeel Moondoc, Assif Tsahar, Borah Bergman, Billy Bang, Andrew Lamb and Warren Smith in the range of free jazz and improvised music.

He also works with its own formation called Frequency Response; In 2003, he presented with her first album under his own name with its own compositions ( conscription ), which appeared in CIMP. 2008 was another album (Lost and Found ). In addition, Abbs member of the formations Triptych Myth, Yuganaut and Transmitting ( with Napoleon Maddox and Jane LeCroy ) and touring as a soloist with his Multifarious multimedia project. He has also worked with the painter MP Landis.

In addition, Abbs was the founder of the artist group Jump Arts, which organized performances in New York between 1997 and 2002. He is also the manager for the avant-garde label ESP-Disk.