Bass
Cary Black is a bassist, vocalist, producer, and teacher who lives in Sebastopol California. He’s known for his patient, encouraging, intuitive, and coherent teaching style and enjoys accommodating a variety of learning styles while maintaining a relaxed, efficient, and fun class atmosphere.
Cary was an adjunct faculty member in Music Theory, Ear Training, and Improvisation at The Evergreen State College from 1994 to 2000. He’s taught at music camps throughout the West, including the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, California Bluegrass Association Grass Valley Camp, California Coast Music Camp, Monroe Mandolin Camp, Colorado Roots Music Camp, Walker Creek Music Camp, Centrum Swing Workshop, Greater Yellowstone Music Camp, Bluegrass at the Beach, B.C. Bluegrass Workshop, and Wintergrass Academy.
Described by Alan Senauke in Sing Out!! magazine as "a musician's musician," Cary is at home in a wide variety of musical settings; his performance and/or recording credits include work with Howard Alden, Laurindo Almeida, Ernestine Anderson, The Boys of the Lough, Bob Brookmeyer, Petula Clark, Mike Dowling, Nokie Edwards (Ventures), Bob Franke, Mary Gauthier, Nina Gerber, Katie Glassman, Richard Harris, The Harry James Orchestra, Sylvia Herold, Dan Hicks, Rob Ickes, Ed Johnson, Orville Johnson, Kathy Kallick (since 2013), Rebecca Kilgore, The Kingston Trio (’85-’88), David Lange, Laurie Lewis (’90-’94), Keith Little, Rose Maddox, Marley's Ghost, Casey MacGill, Carol McComb, John Miller, Motherlode, Alan Munde, Mark Murphy, Scott Nygaard, Mollie O'Brien, Mark O’Connor, Kristina Olsen, Peter Ostroushko, Dean Parks, Eddie Pennington, U. Utah Phillips, Vicki Randle, Johnnie Ray, John Reischman, Del Rey, The Righteous Mothers, Kim Scanlon, Jennifer Scott, Tom Scott, Paul Siebel, Julian Smedley, Cyd Smith, Annie Staninec, Kay Starr, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Linda Waterfall, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Glen Yarbrough.
