Chris Tordini

Chris Tordini is a New York bassist with a busy presence across the citys jazz and creative music scenes. A 2006 graduate of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, he has collaborated with the composer Tyshawn Sorey since 2005, including in Soreys piano trio, and is a founding member of the Becca Stevens Band. He holds the bass chair in the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, whose album All Can Work earned a Grammy nomination, and he has recorded with The Claudia Quintet. He has also worked with a wide range of bandleaders, among them Steve Lehman, Lee Konitz, Theo Bleckmann, and Matt Mitchell.