
Nate
Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing
village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying
musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time
by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption
in sound and relative absence of the same. He began
playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father, and
after studying
he moved
to Colorado where he studied more with Ron Miles, Art Lande,
Fred Hess, and improvisation master Jack Wright. His
tenure with Jack began to break Nate out of self-imposed molds
and into the sound
world that he has embraced as his own. more... |