Bassist/composer Drew Gress performs extensively with artists on the cutting edge of contemporary improvised music. His latest project-The Sky Inside, features Drew’s original compositions for quintet. Earlier releases include the critically-acclaimed The Irrational Numbers (2008) 7 Black Butterflies (2005), Spin & Drift (2001), and Heyday (1997). Future projects include a solo bass recording, and an electronics project…soon to be unveiled.
Drew can also be heard within the ensembles of John Abercrombie, Ralph Alessi, Tim Berne, Don Byron, Uri Caine, Bill Carrothers, Marc Copland, Mark Feldman, Fred Hersch, John Hollenbeck, Steve Lehman, Tony Malaby, Angelica Sanchez, Paul Smoker and John Surman. To date he has appeared on over 250 recordings.
(In an altogether previous musical life, he grounded the performances of Buddy Hackett, Phyllis Diller, Zoot Sims, Cab Calloway, and Pia Zadora).
Drew has toured North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia and has served as Artist-in-Residence at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, and the Paris Conservatoire. He also holds ongoing teaching positions at NYU and at the Siena Jazz Workshop. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and Chamber Music America, and currently resides in New York.
Drew is an endorsing artist for Thomastik Strings.
