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Dan Dean

Born: November 19, 1952

Dan Dean is a truly multitalented artist. Dan has achievednational andinternational recognition as a Bassist, Producer, Composer, and as an audioand recording engineer.

Dan has performed with the some of the finest musicians andmusicalorganizations of our time, including: Shelly Manne, Howard Roberts, The Great Guitars (Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessell), Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, B.B. King, Eddie Harris, Blue Mitchell and Harold Land, Buddy DeFranco, Donny Hathaway, Tom Scott, Dave Grusin, Don Grusin, Ernestine Anderson, Bill (William O.) Smith, Ernie Watts, the Seattle Symphony, Walt Wagner, Seattle Opera, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Mays, Della Reese, Emil Richards/Joe Porcaro and many others.

Vocalise

By Dan Dean

Label: Dan Dean Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sergei Rachmaninoff: 14 Romances, Vocalise Opus 34, No.14; Sergei Prokofiev: Toccata in D Minor, Opus 11; François Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses; Igor Stravinsky: L'Histoire d'un Soldat, Triumphal March of the Devil; Gustav Holtz: Suite 1, Mvt. 2, Interlude; Sergei Prokofiev:: Montagues and Capulets; Gabriel Fauré: Pavane in F# Minor, Opus 50; Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G Minor, Opus 23, No. 5; Sergei Prokofiev: L'amour des Trios Oranges Marche, Opus 33; Mark Knopfler: Going Home (Theme of the Local Hero).

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Dan McClenaghan
December 9, 2024

These recordings are 2024's best of the best. If the business of jazz is a rough go, the art of jazz thrives. Click on the album titles to see the full reviews. Bill AnschellImprobable Solutions Origin Records David FriesenThis Light Has ...

Dan Dean: Vocalise

by Dan McClenaghan
June 29, 2024

Dan Dean has created a new music genre, a choir-of-angels approach molded via meticulous overdubs using one voice. His own. Fans of the bassist (vocalist, sound shaper, engineer) could not have had a clue as to this vocalise direction Dean would take from listening to 2010's Duets (Origin Records) with vibraphonist Tom Collier or to 2 ...

John Stowell / Dave Glenn & The Hawcaptak Quartet: Violin Memory

by Dan McClenaghan
March 2, 2022

Guitarist John Stowell does not hesitate when it comes to taking on unconventional projects. 2021 saw him teaming with vocalist Dan Dean on Rain Painting (Origin Records)--an album of featuring an overdubbed layering of voices (Dean's) making for lush and enriching choir-like harmonics, accompanied by Stowell's various guitars. The Seattle-based guitarist's follow-up finds him ...

Rain Painting

By John Stowell

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Welcome to Nice; Nanti Glo; Rain Painting; Pretty Boy Floyd; Alora Andiamo!; Springfield Sonata; Tapioca Time; Always Sometimes; Schiffletting; The Mandy Walk.

Fanfare For The Common Man

By Dan Dean

Label: Origin Classical
Released: 2021
Track listing: Elgar—Enigma Variation: IX. "Nimrod"; J.S. Bach—Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G major, Allegro BWV 1048; Copland—Fanfare For The Common Man; Debussy—Prelude 8, La Fille Aux De Lin (The Girl With The Flaxen Hair; Holst—The Planets—Mars: the Bringer Of War; J.S. Bach—Cantata "Wachet Auf Ruft Uns Die Stimme," BMV 140; J.S. Bach—French Suite #1 in D minor, Sarabande," BMV 812; W.A. Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K, 525; J.S. Bach—Cantata, "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring," BWV 147; Mendelsson—Midsummer Night Dream—Scherzo, Opus 21; Khachaturian—Gayane's Adagio.

Dan Dean: Fanfare For The Common Man

by Dan McClenaghan
May 1, 2021

Songs Without Words (Origin Classical, 2017) opened the door to Dan Dean's giant step into “going vocal"— an innovative approach to his choir-like voice-layering presentations of classical music. Rain Painting (Origin Records, 2021), teaming Dean with guitarist John Stowell, proved a perfect digression into Stowell's distinctive compositions, employing Dean's vocal harmonies, bass playing and drum programming ...

Songs Without Words

By Dan Dean

Label: Origin Classical
Released: 2017
Track listing: Air on a G String Suite No. 3 in D Major; Flight of the Bumblebee; Concerto for Lute and Orchestra in D Major (Movement 1: Allegro; Movement 2: Largo; Movement 3: Allegro; Night on Bald Mountain; The Sheep May Safely Graze; Adagio in G Minor.

Dan Dean: Songs Without Words

by Dan McClenaghan
July 3, 2017

Bassist Dan Dean's original plan for this project was the hiring of sixteen string players to join him in the studio to record a set for solo bass with string orchestra: Vivaldi's Concerto For Lute and Orchestra in D Major, along with music from JS Bach, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Albononi. The cost for the project proved ...