Mark Dresser
| Mark Dresser | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 26, 1952 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, chamber jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Double bass |
| Years active | 1970s–present |
| Labels | Soul Note, Knitting Factory, Tzadik, Cryptogramophone, Enja, Clean Feed, Pi, CIMP |
| Associated acts | Gerry Hemingway, Ned Rothenberg, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Arcado, Tambastics |
Mark Dresser (born 1952, Los Angeles, California) is an American double bass player and composer.
Dresser has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Anthony Davis, Gerry Hemingway, John Zorn, and others. He has made over sixty recordings.
He has received grants from New York Foundation for the Arts and Meet the Composer, as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Civitella Ranieri. He holds both B.A. and M.A. degrees in music from the University of California, San Diego where he studied contrabass with Bertram Turetzky. He was awarded a 1983 Fulbright Fellowship for advanced contrabass study with Maestro Franco Petracchi.
Dresser has been composing and performing solo contrabass and ensemble music professionally since 1972 throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. His own projects include Mark Dresser's "Force Green," and the Mark Dresser Trio, performing his music for the French surrealist film masterpiece of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un chien andalou as well as the German expressionist silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
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