Daniel Thatcher

Daniel Thatcher is a singular Chicago based bassist and composer, whose solid and supportive presence has been felt and heard among the city's richly varied and vibrant musical communities for the last 10 years and counting. His sensibilities encompass the broader spectrum of traditional and modern music, which allows him to move freely between the worlds of jazz and improvised music, contemporary classical, ragtime, and experimental rock music. This allows him to perform and collaborate regularly with many local greats and lesser-knowns, such as Charles Rumback, Cameron Pfiffner, Dave Miller, Caroline Davis, Marc Riordan, Tim Daisy, John Kregor, Tim Mulvenna, James Davis, Rob Clearfield, Jon Deitemyer, Jeb Bishop and many more. He has also had the opportunity to share the stage with the late Von Freeman and James Moody, Billy Hart, Dave Bryant, Steve Coleman, Danilo Perez, and Perry Robinson (alongside ears&eyes bassist and director, Matthew Golombisky, out on Cadence Records). Daniel has contributed his rich sound and composing voice to a number of unique groups, including (but not limited to): Leaves (Fresh Produce, Plustapes), The Marc Riordan Quartet, Two Aglets Jazzing, Beveled, The Ed Breazeale Group, Maurice (ears&eyes Records), Cameron Pfiffner's Marco Polo (Delmark), Diana and the Dishes, The Great Crush, as well as his own groups, The In Transition Quartet and Empty Step. Deeply influenced by Chicago's wealth of creative, his recent ears&eyes Records release Playing Favorites is a solo bass hommage to a handful of his closest musical colleagues and friends.