Niels Ryde New Quartet

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Bassplayer Niels Ryde entered the Danish jazzscene almost two decades ago, with a new personal sound and aproace on the bass, he soon became a member of different jazz/funk groups, and started his own group in 88. Since then he have been a most sought after musicians on the Danish as well as the International Jazz scene.

Niels Ryde "There was always music in my house, my family listened to all kinds of music, from Bach to Stravinsky and Beatles to Bob Dylan, Armstrong to Bill Evans. I had rather eclectic taste."

Born in Denmark 1964, Ryde took up the bass at the age of 13, playing electric bass in school bands. Ryde quickly became an in-demand bass-player in different bands. At the age of 16 he got a double-bass. Niels says, "I..ve studied two years with a classical bass-teacher and played in the University of Aarhus Symphony. After a while I was more heavily into jazz, playing a lot of be-bop jobs on the local jazz-scene, at the same time I took lessons with the worldwide known bass-player Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen for one year."

At 16, Ryde began performing professionally with many different jazz & funk settings, both on elec.bass and Double bass. "I was still a very young player at that point," Ryde says. "Technically, I was prepared for the job, but I learned a lot about professionalism with these bands. In the mid eighties, Ryde pick up the elec bass, again " I felt like commimg home again." Ryde tells, today he is a master of the electric bass

Ryde has performed in : US, Brazil, Marocco, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Scotland, Russia, The Baltic States, Scandinavia &  Iceland.

Played & toured with musicians like : Ben Monder(US), Bill McHenry(US), Lew Soloff(US), Wolfgang Muthspiel(Au), Anders Mogensen(dk), Søren Bebe(dk), Misja Fitzgreald Michel(F), Orazio Maugeri(It), Siggi Flossason(is), Doug Raney(US), Krister Jönsson(S), Basiru Suso(mali), Pierre Dørge & (NJO)(DK), John Tchicai(US), Butch Lacy(US), James Loveless Funk Band(US/DK), Amancio De Silvar/Matt Lester Quintet(GB), Jorg Hulke/Wolker Sloth (DDR), Jacob Hug/Samuel Zing(CH), Marc Bernstein (US), Pirre Dørge, Uffe Steen Jensen, Carsten Dahl, Thor Madsen, Morten Grønvad, Thomas Agergaard, Kasper Tranberg, Jacop Dinesen, Sko & Torp, Christoffer Møller, Niels Vincentz, Jesper Lovedale og Thomas Frank amomg others.

In these day`s Ryde working a lot as a freelance bassist, live and studio work and as a teatcher, he performs with : Ben Monder(us), Bill McHenry(US), Lew Soloff(US), Wolfgang Muthspiel(Au) Krister Jonsson/ Mads LaCour on tours and his own Niels Ryde NEW QUARTET, with Valentine Quartet, Soren Bebe Trio , Basiru Suso Quartet plus teatches students weekly