1. Ken Filiano was born on 1952 and is an American jazz and orchestral bassist based in Brooklyn, New York.
16 Facts About Ken Filiano
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Since the 1970s, Filiano has played or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Fred Ho, Nels Cline, Bill Dixon, Fay Victor, and others.
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Ken Filiano is on the teaching roster at the New School in New York.
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Ken Filiano teaches master classes in bass and improvisation and has a private studio in Brooklyn.
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Ken Filiano began playing trumpet as a child and continued to play the instrument while attending Syracuse University and studying with Rudolf Nashan.
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Ken Filiano received a Bachelor of Music in Double Bass from Syracuse University in 1978.
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Ken Filiano did graduate work at the University of Southern California in the late 1980s before eventually receiving a Master of Music in Double Bass from Rutgers University in 1997.
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Ken Filiano began his professional career in 1974, working across the Northeastern United States from his home base in Syracuse, New York.
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Ken Filiano began to work as a freelance bassist in classical recording studios and on the jazz scene.
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Ken Filiano formed a relationship with multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia, with whom he toured North America and Europe throughout the 1980s.
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Ken Filiano made his jazz album debut in 1985, appearing on recordings by Golia and Arni Cheatham.
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The 90s were a fertile recording period for Ken Filiano, who appeared on more than 50 albums with Golia, Grossman, Adams, Tony Lujan, Anthony Coleman, Hafez Modirzadeh, Bill Perkins, Joelle Leandre and many others.
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Ken Filiano performed around North America, Europe, and Japan, including at the Bergamo Jazz Festival, the Du Maurier Atlantic Jazz Festival, the Tampere International Jazz Festival, the Texaco New York Jazz Festival, and at the Blue Note in Fukuoka, Japan.
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Ken Filiano continued to perform at many of the premier clubs and festivals around the world, including at the Knitting Factory, the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, the JVC Jazz Festival, the Jazz ao Centro Festival, the Cape Verde International Jazz Festival, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, and others.
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Ken Filiano has performed at festivals and clubs around the world, including in the United States, Canada, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, France, and Russia.
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Ken Filiano has been teaching bass since 1980, both privately and at colleges and universities.