Double Bass

Linda May Han Oh

(1984–)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Linda May Han Oh (b. 1984) — Double Bass. Led Aventurine, The Glass Hours. Worked with Pat Metheny, Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey.

Born in Malaysia and raised in Australia, she was invited into Pat Metheny's band and collaborates frequently with Ambrose Akinmusire. She pushes the expressive possibilities of acoustic bass while earning recognition as a composer in her own right — a rare combination of technical depth and compositional vision.

Linda May Han Oh's albums

Uneasy

Vijay Iyer · 2021

Aventurine

Linda May Han Oh · 2019

Born in Australia, Linda May Han OhLinda May Han Ohリンダ・メイ・ハン・オー arrived in New York through Manhattan School of Music and became a central presence in the jazz scene. AventurineAventurineLinda May Han Oh · 2019 (2019) showed her compositional voice on the bass. Uneasy Uneasy UneasyVijay Iyer · 2021 (2021) with Brad MehldauBrad Mehldauブラッド・メルドー crystallized their shared conversational approach to music in duo form.

— Linda May Han Oh, Wikipedia, 2024

Brad Mehldau

Linda May Han Oh's albums

Linda May Han OhLinda May Han Ohリンダ・メイ・ハン・オー's Aventurine was written for the ambitious pairing of a string quartet with a jazz quartet. JazzTimes notes that her writing centers on the metaphor of aventurine, the chameleon-like mineral she remembered from her Western Australian childhood.

— Vijay Iyer Trio: Uneasy and the Politics of Time, JazzTimes, 2021

Linda May Han Oh's albums

Uneasy

Vijay Iyer · 2021

In 2021 Linda May Han Oh joined Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey on Uneasy (ECM), an album Pitchfork named among its 50 best of the year, whose pieces such as Combat Breathing reflect on Eric Garner's killing and ongoing civic crises.

— Vijay Iyer/Linda May Han Oh/Tyshawn Sorey: Uneasy, JazzTimes, 2021

Linda May Han Oh's albums