Simón Willson

Debut Record! Simón Willson Quartet - Good Company

https://www.newvelle-records.com/pages/simon-willson

Upcoming Performances:

• November 20 - Mark Morris Dance Group in Fayetteville, AR

• November 23 - Mark Morris Dance Group in Dallas, TX

• November 28 @ 8pm - Paul Janoschka Trio @ JazzKeller (Frankfurt, DE)

• November 29 @ 6pm - Paul Janoschka Trio @ Academy of Science & Literature (Mainz, DE)

• November 30 @ 8pm - Paul Janoschka Trio @ JazzClub Heidelberg (Heidelberg, DE)

• December 1 @ 6:30pm - Paul Janoschka Trio @ House Show (Frankfurt, DE)

• December 2 - Finn Wiest Trio @ C Keller (Weimar, DE)

• December 3 - Finn Wiest @ Blue Note (Dresden, DE)

• December 6 @ 5:30pm - Peter Watrous Group @ Bar Bayeux (Brooklyn, NY)

• December 8 @ 7pm - Hans Luchs @ Serafina (Manhattan, NY)

• December 11 @ 7pm - Tony Davis @ Spes (Manhattan, NY)

• December 12 @ 7pm - Tony Davis @ Terre (Brooklyn, NY)

• December 18 @ 10:30pm - Kevin Sun Trio Polite Jam Session @ Close Up (Manhattan, NY)

• December 19 @ 7:30 & 9pm - Angus Mason Trio @ Close Up (Manhattan, NY)

• December 26 @ 7pm - Tony Davis @ Terre (Brooklyn, NY)

• December 28 @ 8pm - Aaron Seeber Quartet @ Close Up (Manhattan, NY)

• January 4 @ 6:30pm - Yuval Amihai Trio @ Ornithology Jazz Club (Brooklyn, NY)

• January 23 - 26, 2025 - Mark Morris Dance Group in Boston, MA

• February 27, 2025 @ 7:30pm - SW Quartet @ Close Up (Manhattan, NY)

• February 28, 2025 @ 7:30pm - SW Quartet @ Café Ornithology (Brooklyn, NY)

• March 9 @ 3pm - Tony Davis Quartet @ Baby Grand Jazz Series (Hartford, CT)

• March 28 @ 8pm - Simon Willson Quartet @ Bar Bayeux (Brooklyn, NY)

• April 10, 2025 - David Hadju Project (Helen Sung, Dave Douglas, Aubrey Johnson, Chet Doxas, Marika Hughes, Eliza Salem, SW) @ Dizzy's (Manhattan, NY)

• April 12, 2025 - Simon Willson Trio @ Frankfurt JazzKeller (Frankfurt, DE)

• April 13, 2025 - Simon Willson Trio @ Fuge trifft Fuge (Denzlingen, DE)

Recordings:

• Simón Willson Quartet - Good Company

• Ethan Iverson - Technically Acceptable

• Family Plan (Collective trio w/ Vicente Hansen & Andrew Boudreau)

• Earprint

• Earprint - EASY LISTENING

• Great on Paper

• Vicente Atria’s “Orlando Furioso”

• Dave Douglas / Elan Mehler Sextet

• Frank Carlberg + Roxana Amed - Los Trabajos y Las Noches

• Jason Palmer Quintet - Live at Wally's Vol. 1

• Jason Palmer Quintet - Live at Wally's Vol. 2

• Kevin Sun Quartet - From All This Stillness

• Kevin Sun - The Sustain of Memory

• Neta Raanan Quartet feat. Joel Ross & Kayvon Gordon - Unforeseen Blossom

• Andrew Boudreau Quartet - Neon

• Max Light Trio - Herplusme

• Jacob Shulman Quartet

• Yonghyun Lee Band (featuring Walter Smith III)

• TJ & The Revenge - featuring Bill Frisell

• Kasperi Sarikoski - Trio + 1

• Elan Mehler Quintet - Piano Noir

• Caio Afiune

• Grant Richards - One and Done

• Anthony Coleman - The End of Summer

• Hayoung Lyou - Metamorphosis

• Andrew Pereira Quintet - Lost in Plain Sight

• Richard Garcia Band - Don't Look Back

• Chris McCarthy Band - "Sonder"

• Jan Geijtenbeek - "Boston Waltz"

• Steve Pardo Trio - "Hope"

• Jacob Hiser Quintet - Seconds

• Julian Jimenez Quartet

• Seyun Park Quintet - The Moon at Night

• Shihai Li Quintet

• Takuya Kohashi Band

• Wonmi Jung - Unspoken Words

• Tony Davis - Cloud Nova

Recordings to be Released:

• Simon WiIlson Quartet - Bet: Live at Ornithology w/ Neta Raanan, Kayvon Gordon & Evan Main (Feb 28, 2025)

• Simon Willson Quartet Studio (Fall 2025)

• Hans Luchs Quartet feat. Mike King & Adam Arruda

• David Hajdu Project feat. Dave Douglas, Helen Sung, Aubrey Johnson, Chet Doxas, Rudy Royston, Marika Hughes

• Willber Sunlight

• Toomas Keski-Säntti Quartet

• Daniel Hass Quartet

• Yonatan Guedj Octet

*Photos by Luke Marantz & Anna Yatskevich

Simón Willson is a Chilean born, New York City based bassist, composer and improviser. As an eclectic and in demand sideman, he has toured with a host of different musicians in Europe, the US, Canada, and South America. His wide-ranging interest in different realms of Jazz and improvised music has led him to work regularly with a diverse pool of established artists such as Dave Douglas, Ethan Iverson, Jason Palmer, Jonathan Kreisberg, Frank Carlberg, Roxana Amed, the Mark Morris Dance Group, among many others. In addition to his sideman work, he co-leads the bands Family Plan and Earprint. The latter won the “best debut album” category of the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll in 2016. In 2023 Orlando Furioso, Vicente Atria’s septet in which Willson plays bass, won the Deutscher Jazz Preis in the “Best International New Artist” category.  He can be heard on over thirty records for labels such as Sony Music, Tzadik, Greenleaf, Steeplechase, Newvelle, Endectomorph, in addition to a number of self-releases. His bandleading debut album “Good Company” was released October 13, 2023 on Fresh Sound Records.