Jaco Pastorius, Juan Alderete, Chris Wood, Steve Swallow, Trevor Dunn, Dan Briggs, Arif Mirabdolbaghi, Charles Mingus, Paul Chambers, Larry Grenadier
John Scofield, Kevin Breit, Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Joao & Astrud Gilberto, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, John Medeski, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, Sufjan Stevens, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Bela Bartok, Beethoven
Joe Orlando, Mark Dunn, James Harley, Andy Scott, Joe Sorbara, Kevin Hayward, Karen Burke, Mark Fluit
Cassiopeia, The Cashews, The Conroy Quintet, The Guelph Rhythm Quartet, Modest Proposal
Dave Riedstra is a bassist and composer studying at the University of Guelph. He currently operates in a gun-for-hire fashion, and is interested in a wide array of music.
New recordings to come over Christmas, hopefully!
(Please don't post giant flash widgets on my page promoting your music, or I will delete your post. Please note that the recordings featured here are slightly dated.)
i'm not really that awesome. but thank you :p im very tired, i had to work from 3:30-11 tonight...which means i have to do all of my homework on my second period spare tomorrow. craaazy. i hope you're doing awesome. come see me sometime :) ♥
dude.. you soo gotta come to PNP.. its totally sick.. maybe u shoudl talk to scott and see if you guyscan go this year. it is amazing!! check out the link http://www.evangelicalmissionaryyouth.ca/pnp/index.asp
thats a rockin' semester dude. haha ive got grade 11 math...pshh i failed last year so im taking U/C this time. annnd...i have challenge and change, and interdisciplinary studies. it's pretty awesome though, ive been getting all my work done so far so thats a bonus...since im a huge slacker and all. blehhh, but i think we should go for a lunch date soon, yes mhmm. or to grab coffee or sommmething. you keep changing on me, so i never know what you're gonna look or act like. it's crazy, but i hope we never lose touch. yay. anyways im feeling kind of sick right now...i have a cold annnd i decided to go running after school so that was dumb and now i just feel worse. bleh. im gonna get back to being bored now, so ill ttyl! :p holy, that was a long comment. OHH and i heard about that cd your making with ben or whatever. sounds cool, hook me up with one, i would gladly support you. im mad at ben right now because he likes to use other people's cell phones for 10 minutes to call his ex gf without telling the owner of the cell phone he's going to take that long :p (i thought he was just making a quick call home or something so i let him borrow it) but ill get over it. haha. ttyl dave.
