Chuck Deardorf

Who is Chuck Deardorf?

Chuck Deardorf, is an American musician, best known for playing double bass and bass guitar with numerous internationally noted jazz musicians. As a first-call bassist in the Pacific Northwest for nearly 25 years, Chuck Deardorf has recorded and performed with some of the Jazz world’s brightest luminaries including Kenny Barron, Larry Coryell, Bucky Pizzarelli, Bud Shank, Chet Baker, Joe Williams, Zoot Sims, Mel Lewis, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Burrell, Abbey Lincoln, Howard Roberts, George Cables, Winard Harper, Charlie Byrd, and vocalists Kurt Elling, Ernestine Anderson and Kelly Harland. Deardorf has performed at music festivals and clubs throughout the Northwest as well as in Los Angeles, New York City, Australia, Canada and Japan, and in numerous theater and symphony productions.

Deardorf is a professor and head of the jazz faculty at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and serves on the faculty of the Centrum Jazz Workshop, held annually in the San Juan Islands. He also performs regularly with respected Brazilian composer and pianist, Jovino Santos-Neto and the Deardorf/Peterson Group.

Deardorf is known for his prodigious skills on upright as well as fretless and fretted electric basses.