I play bass in The Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra (Jerry Floor's). Also, I play in some other projects with guitarist Kenji Aihara. I'm also involved with studios in the SLC area like LA east, Soularium, Counterpoint et al doing session work. You can also catch me freelancing at weddings and corporate functions with Jerry Floor, Jay Lawrence and Joe Muscolino ;). Basically, if someone needs a bass player that knows his crap, people call me.
Influences
John Patitucci is a huge influence on both my electric and acoustic bass playing. He's one of the first bass players i heard when i started (i was 15). I had the chance to go out to New York and study with him and hang with him. It was an awesome experience. We keep in touch and I study with him when i get the chance. Another influence is Victor Wooten. Another one of my 'firsts.' We've jammed together, I did the bass-nature camp, and he's invited me back to help out. He's a great person and player. It's amazing to me that my biggest influences are now friends of mine, i hope that we can have long-lasting musical and social experiences with each other. Currently I'm studying with Gary Willis using secret futuristic technologies. He's really kicking my butt and i feel like a tool most of the time...but man it's fun!
Some of my other influences are Edgar Meyer, Jaco, Chick Corea, Michael Manring, John Coltrane, Chris Potter, Bill Stewart, Brian Blade, Marcus Miller...the list is huge! I wont go on. All i know is...i like music waaaay too much.
THIS VIDEO MAKES ME HAPPY!!
Sounds Like
I sound like myself, i think. But if have to, i think i can sound like anyone else too.
(I'll keep it short) Denson Angulo is one of the most sought-after bassists in the Salt Lake City metro area. With a Master's of Music degree, and skills in an abundance of music styles, Denson has worked extensively as an educator and free-lance professional playing electric bass, acoustic jazz, and classical double bass. A sample of his credentials include international tours to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and Italy; and performances with jazz greats Bob Mintzer, Bob Berg, Randy Brecker, Victor Wooten, Conrad Herwig, Nicholas Payton, Ed Calle, Madeline Eastman, Bob Shepard, Jamie Abersold, Javon Jackson, Mark Whitfield, Terreon Gully, Wycliffe Gordon, Brandon Fields, Denise Donatelli, Eldar Djangarov, Dennis DiBlasio, Kathy Kosins, Tom Scott, Shelly Berg, Bobby Shew, Gregg Bissonette, Carl Allen and many others. As a classical musician, he has recorded for ESPN, ABC, NBC television, DreamWorks Pictures, and LDS motion pictures, and performed solo bass repertoire with the Honolulu Symphony. As an educator he has maintained private bass studios for over 15 years. He has traveled the inter-mountain west as an adjudicator and clinician and has been a full-time professor at Brigham Young University Idaho coordinating their Classical/Jazz bass studio, running their jazz combo program, and teaching jazz history. Currently, Denson is free-lancing in Salt Lake City, an adjunct instructor and Utah Valley University, the jazz improv/bass instructor at Snow College, and the Adjunct Assistant Professor of jazz bass at the University of Utah.
That's right, washburn MB-6, 'Bantam'-series. It's a sort of in-between model, they changed the shape of the head afterwards. It was the bass I could afford at that time, and it serves me pretty well. Only the pop&slap is a bit tricky, due to the narrow space between the strings. Once I had the opportunity to show it to Frank Itt, and he liked it, too, especially the range of sounds one can get out of it.
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