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David Ambrosio

David Ambrosio is a bassist, composer, bandleader, collaborative ensemble member, bata drummer, and educator with a broad New York catalog.

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Photo source · Photo: Lisa Hagen Glynn, via David Ambrosio’s official site

Career Overview

About David Ambrosio

Ambrosio’s official biography documents three decades as a New York bassist, composer, bandleader, collaborator, and educator. It distinguishes his own trio and quartet from co-led groups including Grupo Los Santos, 40Twenty, and the Ambrosio-Meissner Sextet.[1]

Civil Disobedience gives Ambrosio another leader identity, revisiting progressive Blue Note compositions from the late 1960s with a quintet of Donny McCaslin, Ingrid Jensen, Bruce Barth, Victor Lewis, and Ambrosio. His catalog also reflects long study of Afro-Cuban bata drumming.[1][3][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, bassist, and composer

David Ambrosio Trio and Quartet

Ambrosio’s leader formats range from a trio with Loren Stillman to a chordless quartet with Tim Hagans, Joel Frahm, and Billy Mintz.[1]

Leader, bassist, and project curator

Civil Disobedience

The quintet interprets politically conscious compositions associated with the progressive side of Blue Note’s late-1960s catalog.[1][3]

Co-leader, bassist, and percussion student-practitioner

Grupo Los Santos and bata study

Ambrosio’s Cuba performances and sustained bata study run beside his work in the co-led Latin-jazz ensemble Grupo Los Santos.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2014 · Fresh Sound New Talent

Gone

Leader, bassist, and composer

Gone is Ambrosio’s second listed leader recording and part of the original-music catalog on his artist site.[1]

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2016 · SteepleChase Records

Moments in Time

Co-leader and bassist with Russ Meissner

The sextet recording documents Ambrosio and Meissner’s co-led writing with a three-horn front line.[1][2]

Release details

2018 · Fresh Sound New Talent

Four on the Road

Leader, bassist, and composer

Ambrosio’s third leader album extends his chordless small-group writing and interactive bass approach.[1]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

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Moments in Time

Stream the complete Ambrosio-Meissner Sextet album through the artists’ authorized edition.

Civil Disobedience

Open the project’s official site for listening and personnel from Ambrosio’s Blue Note-era program.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Wed, Nov 11, 6:30 PM

Tobias Gebb Trio

Ornithology Jazz Club · Brooklyn

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography, projects, and recording catalog

    David Ambrosio

  2. [2] Moments in Time stream and personnel

    David Ambrosio and Russ Meissner

  3. [3] Civil Disobedience project and personnel

    Civil Disobedience