Earning The Rockies

Garth Stevenson, a virtuoso double bass player and key figure in New York’s experimental and improvisational music scene, has specialized in a cinematic style that both represents and interacts with the natural world. Born and raised in the Canadian Rockies, the natural world has run like a thread through Stevenson's life and work from the very beginning. Earning a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music, he played several high-profile engagements in Boston with Bob Moses, Joe Lovano, George Garzone, John Lockwood, and others and founded TAQ, a trio with pianist Marcin Masecki and drummer Ziv Ravitz, before graduating in 2004. Stevenson relocated to New York, quickly becoming a fixture in the improvisational and experimental music scene there, playing and recording with a wide range of ensembles, including projects with Sonya Kitchell, John Shannon, Mat Maneri, Ryan Ferreira, Petr Cancura and others, and he appeared as a bassist on some 50 recordings.