Peter Warren

Peter Warren's work on bass and cello reached a sizeable audience via his membership in drummer Jack DeJohnette's ensembles beginning in the mid-'70s. DeJohnette's Special Edition band recorded some of the more critically acclaimed jazz of the late '70s and early '80s; Warren played on the albums Special Edition and Tin Can Alley (both ECM), made during the group's most avant-garde phase. Warren played cello in his youth; he debuted at Carnegie Hall at 17 and attended the Juilliard School in New York. Warren began playing double bass while living in Las Vegas, and later studie...