Michael Bates

Michael Bates is a New York-based double bassist/composer concentrating on a wide spectrum of original music and creative improvising. In the early 90’s he studied in Japan with the former principal bassist of the Tokyo Symphony Yoshie Nagashima Bates has performed with musicians such as Chad Talmor, John Abercrombie and Dylan Van Der Schyff, and has toured Hong Kong, China, Korea Japan, Canada and the U.S.