Kevin Tkacz

I live in Brooklyn. I find it very hard to talk about myself in any capacity, so I had to pay someone to write a bio for me. Here are parts of it:
Born in Indiana and raised for the most part near Lexington, Kentucky, bassist Kevin Tkacz (pronounced “tax”) came into his own as a jazz artist in the exploratory urban environment of Chicago. A Brooklyn resident since 2005, he has made a mark on the cutting edge of the New York jazz scene, working with the likes of Matana Roberts, Ralph Alessi, Angelica Sanchez, Russ Lossing, Gerald Cleaver, Kris Davis, Eri Yamamoto and more.....
Tkacz, 37, began his musical life on trumpet and then guitar before picking up the electric bass. Switching to upright during his college years (at North Texas, University of Kentucky and DePaul), Tkacz began to investigate the music of Charlie Haden, Paul Motian and Keith Jarrett, to name a few. He cites Marc Johnson, Gary Peacock, Wilbur Ware, Ed Schuller and Anthony Cox as key role models on his instrument. The vocabulary we hear ... [r]ich in lyricism, oblique in harmonic plan, unpredictable in dynamics and textural atmosphere — reflects an immersion in the finest music of the modern period, traditional and not... reveals a personal voice, Tkacz’s own offbeat and refreshing take on trio jazz today.
-David Adler (JazzTimes, Philadelphia Inquirer, etc.)