Artist
Dave Zinno
Biography
Dave Zinno is an American jazz bassist, bandleader and educator. A professional musician since 1980, he studied at Berklee College of Music and the University of Rhode Island. His formative work included a period in Seattle with singer Dianne Schuur, collaborations with Julian Priester and Hadley Caliman, and studies with Gary Peacock. In New York he studied with Walter Booker Jr.
His collaborators have included Jimmy Cobb, Junior Cook, Jimmy Heath, John Hicks, Victor Lewis, John Medeski and Larry Willis. His performing career has taken him throughout Europe, South America, North Africa and the United States. He has taught at the University of Rhode Island, Salve Regina University and Brown University, and led workshops in Toulon.
His group Unisphere released River, Stories Told and Fetish. On Andrea Marcelli’s The Invisible Child, he plays double bass with pianist Dana Gooley and Marcelli in the Brown University recordings of 2013.