TOMMY BABIN, bassist

TOMMY BABIN grew up in rural Nova Scotia and holds degrees in both Jazz and Contemporary Classical music. His doctoral research involves both modern double bass repertoire and the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s.

As an educator he has designed and taught courses involving a wide variety of musical interests from Hip Hop to David Bowie to Free Jazz and as a musician he has performed worldwide, received numerous awards and accolades, and been called "rugged and exact" by The Globe and Mail, "muscular" by Signal To Noise, "inflammable" by the Village Voice, and a "virtuoso" by the San Diego Reader.