Musician

Mark Wade

Born: December 29, 1974

Modern jazz composer and bassist Mark Wade is open to appreciating and co-creating great music in all its forms. Like Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis and Esperanza Spaulding, he’s not limited by genre. His fourth album shows the breadth of his musicality and inventive compositional style. Called "a living work of modern art" by Downbeat Magazine, the original tracks found on his 2022 album True Stories were inspired by a wide range of influences, drawing on themes from composers such as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Igor Stravinsky. The result is a unique expression of jazz linking past to present.

Album

Mixed Bag

By Pete McGuinness

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: From This Moment On; Rebecca; The Dark Hours; Lilac Blues; Down the Rabbit Hole; Body and Soul; So in Love; Django; ��Round Midnight; The Sly Fox (in Memory of Bill Holman); Where Do You Start?

Article: Album Review

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2025

Award-winning arranger Pete McGuinness has chosen to name the fourth recording by his stellar New York-based Jazz Orchestra Mixed Bag, a term whose meaning may be construed as positive or less so, depending on the context. As he explains in the album's liner notes, McGuinness accentuates the positive, writing that to him, “Variety has always been ...

Album

True Stories

By Mark Wade

Label: Mark Wade Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: I Feel More Like I Do Now; Falling Delores; The Soldier and the Fiddle; In the Market; Piscataway Went That-a-Way; A Simple Song; Song with Orange and Other Things, Pt.1; Song With Orange and Other Things, Pt.2; At the Sunside

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Pat Metheny, Howard Britz & Charles Goold

by Joe Dimino
May 15, 2022

We start the 751st Episode of Neon Jazz with a relatively new musician that has seen a lot of action in his young life. Drummer Charles Goold kicks things off with a song off his 2022 album Rhythm in Contrast. We also take a look into some new music from veterans of the jazz world in ...

Video

Feel More Like I Do Now

Featuring the music of Mark Wade
Duration: 6:54
March 19, 2022

The Mark Wade Trio performs "I Feel More Like I Do Now" live at Flushing Town Hall in New York on October 24, 2021. with Tim Harrison on piano, Mark Wade on bass and Scott Neumann on drums.

News: Recording

Bassist Mark Wade Trio Releases 'True Stories'

March 11, 2022

Modern jazz composer and bassist Mark Wade is open to appreciating and co-creating great music in all its forms, and clearly not limited by genre. True Stories, his fourth album, shows the breadth of his musicality and inventive compositional style. Eight original tracks (and one cover) were inspired by a wide range of influences, drawing on ...

Album

Songs From Isolation

By Mark Wade

Label: AMP Music & Records
Released: 2020

Article: Album Review

Mark Wade: Songs From Isolation

by Dan Bilawsky
October 30, 2020

Despite the obvious alignment in terms of timing, circumstances and creation, this project didn't simply manifest itself in the moment. Mark Wade has always had a solo bass outing in his sights. He just didn't take firm aim and follow through until now. That belief in patience, ultimately, helped to yield rewards. Rather than work with ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Mark Wade

by AAJ Staff
August 19, 2020

Meet Mark Wade Voted one of the top bassists of 2016, 2018, and 2019 in the prestigious Downbeat Magazine Reader's Poll, Mark Wade has been active in the NYC area for over 20 years. His debut album Event Horizon (2015) and follow up release Moving Day (2018) received international acclaim, and Moving Day was picked as ...