Takashi Seo

Takashi Seo is a Japanese double bassist and composer from Sapporo. After studying double bass with Mitsuo Fujisawa, he developed an improvisational practice in which the physical character of the instrument is central, including the use of gut strings, harmonics and richly articulated arco playing.

He won the Yokohama Jazz Promenade competition with the Mikio Ishida Trio in 2006. His collaborations cross jazz, free improvisation and performance, including work with Fumio Itabashi, Achim Kaufmann, Akira Sakata and Tristan Honsinger's House of Wasps. He also organises double-bass ensemble projects. Creative Sources documents his playing on Noisy Sadness (CS841).