Joel Grip（瑞典），David Coulter（英国）
Joel Grip (SE), David Coulter (UK)

Joel Grip, Double Bass

Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, Joel Grip is a world traveler conversing, via his instrument, with musicians and artists from a wide palette of backgrounds. He has received a performance diploma from the improvised music program at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore USA, where he studied double bass under the master tutelage of Michael Formanek.

Through performing at internationals festivals like High Zero and recording with greats like saxophonist Gary Thomas and avant-folk-artist Shelly Blake he has become an increasingly active member of the US east coast scene of creative music. His massive bass sound, inspired by the growl of earth, has been heard in many cities of Europe as a soloist as well as in various settings/groups ¬ certainly in the pirate-jazz quartet The Jolly-Boat Pirates. He has shown a versatile and energetic style of musicianship, and still not letting go of his very own sound and creativity of his which is also let out through his solid organizational work and filming.

In Sweden he has been a part of managing and/or producing festivals like the Stockholm Jazzfestival and Hagenfesten in Dala-Floda and is at this time working on projects for organizations like FRIM ¬ the association of free improvised music in Sweden, Afrique Profonde, and SPISA ¬ a concert series of creative music in Stockholm, Malmö and Göteborg.. He is the initiative taker for the ideas and projects of Public Health Music that now include a CD and DVD production with homeless kids and youth in Ukraine. He is also the manager and producer of the Stockholm based record label Umlaut Records.

Between december 2006 and march 2007 Joel is on a tour across the globe. On the east coast of USA, in Central America, Japan, China and India, concerts, meetings and recording-sessions are set up in effort to create a musical exchange, and through these new meetings lay a solid ground for possible future collaborations.

PERFORMED WITH

Niklas Barnö, Tetuzi Akiyama, Joe McPhee, Andrea Parkins, Shelly Blake, Per-Henrik Wallin, Roland Keijser, Tim Murphy, Ingrid Jensen, Christer Bothén, Per-Åke Holmlander, Gary Thomas, Michael Formanek, Audrey Chen, Sofia Jernberg, John Berndt, Sam Rivers, Tatsuya Nakatani, Leopold Kozlowski, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Mats Gustafsson, Sten Sandell, Raymond Strid, Susan Alcorn, Jack Wright, Jim Black, Eve Risser and many more.