Playing w/ Kora master BASIRU SUSO´S GROUP Feat : Mikkel Nordsø : guitar, Basiru Suso : kora, Niels Ryde : bass, Malick Jargne : perc & Klaus Menzer : drums look for dates in 2012 !

New CD : EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE OUT NOW in stores and Itunes : words by hanne hammer - music by niels ryde & jacob broholm + additionel players : anders mogensen . drums/perc - mads la cour : tp - Rasmuss Fribo : bassclarinet - peter Hellesoe : tenor saxophone. Buy the CD on www.cdjazz.com

PLAYSONGS out now with VALENTINE QUARTET feat : HANNE HAMMER : vocal, at www.cdjazz.com or Itunes

POCKET MUSIC CD Feat : LEW SOLOFF rewieved in Jazz Italia 08 :
www. jazzitalia.net/recensioni/pocketmusic.asp

" Nils Ryde is a wonderful composer and bass player. I find his compositions so much fun to play on. I think his writing is unique, melodic, and very interesting harmonically. He is also a great bassist, by his fantastic soloing and great rhythmic support." Lew Soloff(NYC)

" Niels Ryde is not just an innovative and sensitive modern player. He is also a marvelous and unique composer. With brains and heart to spare, Niels takes full advantage of the color palate - taking us on fantastic new journeys, which still follows the trajectory of tradition. He is a very special player." Kurt Elling, vocalist & Blue Note Artist.

Bassplayer Niels Ryde entered the danish jazzscene almost two decades ago, with a new personal sound and aproace on the bass, he soon became a member of different jazz/funk groups, and started his own group in 88. Since then he have been a most sought after musicians on the Danish as well as the International Jazz scene.

Niels Ryde "There was always music in my house, my family listened to all kinds of music, from Bach to Stravinsky and Beatles to Bob Dylan, Armstrong to Bill Evans. I had rather eclectic taste."

Born in Denmark 1964, Ryde took up the bass at the age of 13, playing electric bass in school bands. Ryde quickly became an in-demand bass-player in different bands. At the age of 16 he got a double-bass. Niels says, "I..ve studied two years with a classical bass-teacher and played in the University of Aarhus Symphony. After a while I was more heavily into jazz, playing a lot of be-bop jobs on the local jazz-scene, at the same time I took lessons with the worldwide known bass-player Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen for one year."

At 16, Ryde began performing professionally with many different jazz & funk settings, both on elec.bass and Double bass. "I was still a very young player at that point," Ryde says. "Technically, I was prepared for the job, but I learned a lot about professionalism with these bands. In the mid eighties, Ryde made a swith back to elec bass, " I felt like commimg home again." Ryde tells, today he is a master of the electric bass

Ryde has performed in : US, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Scotland, Russia, The Baltic States, Norway, Iceland, Sweden.

Played & toured with musicians like : Ben Monder(us), Bill McHenry(us), Lew Soloff(US), Wolfgang Muthspiel(Au), Anders Mogensen(dk), Søren Bebe(dk), Flavio Pantroja(Br), Yulietsky Consales(cuba), Misja Fitzgreald Michel(F), Orazio Maugeri(It), Siggi Flossason(is), Doug Raney(US), Krister Jönsson(S), Basiru Suso(mali), Pierre Dørge & (NJO)(DK), John Tchicai(US), Butch Lacy(US), James Loveless Funk Band(US/DK), Amancio De Silvar/Matt Lester Quintet(GB), Jorg Hulke/Wolker Sloth (DDR), Jacob Hug/Samuel Zing(CH), Marc Bernstein (US), Pirre Dørge, Uffe Steen Jensen, Carsten Dahl, Thor Madsen, Morten Grønvad, Thomas Agergaard, Kasper Tranberg, Sko & Torp, Christoffer Møller, Niels Vincentz, Jesper Lovedale og Thomas Frank amomg others

DISCOGRAFI

As a leader :

Traffic Jam. feat : John Tchcai : sax - Uffe Steen : guitar
As Of Now. feat : Morten Gronvad : vibs - Thor Madsen : guitar
Cleanshave. w/ Carsten Dahl, Kasper Tranberg, Thor Madsen
Modern Shapes. w/ Ryde, Vincentz, Moller, Mogensen
Everything I Love. feat : Wolfgang Muthspiel(au) : guitar
Pocket Music. feat : Lew Soloff(us) : trumpet
Playsongs feat : Hanne Hammer : vocals

New CD : Everything Will Change OUT NOW

" Space Is The Place "