Dan Anderson

Adjunct Faculty: lecturer, private lessons
Specialty: jazz bass and tuba

Dan Anderson teaches private lessons and master classes in Jazz bass at Columbia.  Dan has been very active in the Chicago music scene as a bassist, tubist and teacher over the past twenty years.  He is a regular member of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, The Von Freeman Quintet and the Chicago Brass Quintet. He has been a regular guest with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and The Chicago Jazz Orchestra.  In addition, he has
performed and/ recorded with Slide Hampton, Lee Konitz, Joe Williams, Ray
Charles, Dr. John, Doc Sevrensen, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. Dan has appeared at jazz festivals in Chicago, Chautauqua, N.Y., Ravinia, Aspen, Banff, Canada, Pompeii, It., Berghausen,  Cologne, and
Tubingen Germany, and Moscow. Dan's musical training includes the curricula at the Interlochen Arts Academy, University of Illinois and Northwestern University. Among his teachers are Dave Holland, Rufus Reid,  and Arnold Jacobs.

Recently Dan has been a given master classes with members of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble at the Music Conservatory of San Juan, Puerto Rico and the Jazz Festival in Saint Anna' Arresi, Italy.

My teaching philosophy is to establish good fundamentals on the double bass while steeping the student in the rich tradition of jazz bass.  The student is engaged with listening, transcriptions, repertior, bass line construction and soloing and performance.