BIO: Steve Uccello is an Upright and Electric Bassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He's a versatile musician who authentically embraces each style he approaches. Steve has self-produced three solo albums, 2009's Symmetria, an instrumental bass-centric journey comprised of 14 original songs, then, under the name Clarified Birds, an acoustic ambient CD accompanied by an original letter pressed art piece by J.F. Uccello, The Forest That Hears And the Field That Sees. The first solo CD by Steve was 2006's, Polar Vision, a vocal-psychedelic-folk-rock album. Studying under the world-renowned bassists Stan Poplin and Ray Drummond, Steve was the first Jazz Studies graduate from CSU Monterey Bay in 2005. Aside from having 4 instructional videos available through LearnTheLowEnd.com, Steve teaches upright bass, electric bass, and guitar privately. He has also taught taught through Hollister Music and at Robert Louis Stevenson High School in Pacific Grove. Steve provides the bottom end for the Monterey Bay Jazz Orchestra, which played at the 2009, 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival. Steve Uccello has shared the stage with artists such as Steve Lawson and Joe Craven. Uccello was a featured guest at the 2009 Mandolin Symposium, working closely and playing with David Grisman and Mike Marshall. He has toured and/or recorded with the unique singer/multi-instrumentalist Dayan Kai, Kerrville & Telluride winner Keith Greeninger, singer/environmental activist David Grimes, Jazz composer Kirk Danielson, Spanish Nuevo Cancion artist Juan L. Sanchez, and Italy based Gospel artist Nehemiah Brown. In October, 2009 Steve played solo, as Uccello Project, at the Y2K International Live Looping Festival, in Santa Cruz, California, and he is slated to play the 10th Y2K Looping Fest, as well.
LESSONS: As well as being available for private instruction, Steve Uccello has four online instructional videos available at LEARN THE LOW END online Bass Academy, which puts students in contact with top-notch educators for a fraction of the cost of one private lesson, it's very interactive & convenient. Steve teaches two lessons on technique, 5 TIPS FOR GAINING INTIMACY WITH THE DOUBLE BASS and HARMONICS, and two lessons on his looping/arranging techniques (using his original compositions): LEARNING CHIRAL and LEARNING GOLDEN all courses include hand written transcriptions, videos, as well as detailed explanations of each technique. The video below is of the song 'Chiral', the 8th song from Symmetria, it's included in the 'Learning Chiral' lesson. Enjoy!