Linda May Han Oh

Born in Malaysia, raised in Western Australia and now living in New York City, Linda began playing piano, bassoon and electric bass before starting upright-bass in 2002 at the W.A Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where she graduated with first-class honours. Linda was a James Morrison Scholarship Finalist in 2003 and in 2004 was an IAJE Sister in Jazz and received the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s award in 2008. She also received an honorary mention at the 2009 Thelonious Monk Bass Competition. Linda completed her Masters at the Manhattan School of Music in 2008 studying with Jay Anderson, John Riley, Phil Markowitz, Dave Liebman and Rodney Jones. She now teaches the precollege division there and conducts jazz videoconference master-classes for high-schools around the US. She is an active double bassist, electric bassist and composer, composing music for short film. Linda has performed with the likes of Dave Douglas, Kenny Barron, Slide Hampton, TS Monk, Nathan Davis, George Cables, James Morrison, Tony Gould, George Cables, Max Sharam and Steve Wilson. She has just released her debut trio album "Entry" with Obed Calvaire and Ambrose Akinmusire which has received rave reviews and is one of Vijay Iyer’s top ten albums of 2009. Her newest release is Initial Here under the Greenleaf label with Rudy Royston- dr, Fabian Almazan - pno and Dayna Stephens - sax. Her 2013 releases will be two live recordings at the Jazz Gallery with string quartet and another quartet with Ben Wendel - sax, James Muller - gtr and Ted Poor entitled Sun Pictures. “ the music’s fearless energy seems self-generated. It’s not airlessly virtuosic; it’s smart and informed and hard-working, full of real improvisation, the committed, hard-won, lumpy, non-mechanical, go-for-broke kind.” – Ben Ratliff, NY Times