BIOGRAPHY
New York bassist Steve Doyle attended University of Nebraska where he graduated with a degree in music education. During his college years, Steve studied with bassist Rusty White, played piano for the university big band and gigged locally on the Omaha/Lincoln scenes.
Steve went on to receive many accolades and awards for his musicianship, including a scholarship for study with John Clayton and Charlie Haden from the 1990 Milt Hinton Scholarship Fund Competition sponsored by the International Society of Bassists. He was also chosen as a semi-finalist in the 1995 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Bass Competition.
For the past two decades, Steve has been the house bassist at New York’s Birdland Jazz Club for Jim Caruso’s Cast Party with Billy Stritch and drummer Daniel Glass.
Steve has recorded and/or performed with the following artists: Tony Desare, Billy Stritch, Christine Ebersole, Natalie Cole, Don Rickles, Ron Affif, Ben Monder, Ann Hampton Callaway, Dave Stryker, Steve Slagle, James Williams, Chris Potter, Christine Lavin, Jeff Daniels, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Jon Weber, Pekka Pylkkanen, KT Sullivan, Marilyn Maye, James Williams, Gene Bertoncini, Jim Caruso, Megan Hilty, Bucky Pizzarrelli, Bruce Barth, Lari White, Laura Mvula, Rigmor Gustafsson, Christine Lavin, Karen Oberlin, Linda Lavin, Pete McCann, Montego Glover, Christoph Eidens, Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, the Countess Luann de Lesseps, Amanda Green and Jeff Harner.
He has also performed at many prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Birdland, Blue Note (in both New York & Tokyo), NJPAC, Carlyle Hotel, Zinc Bar, Smalls, 55 Bar, Knitting Factory, 54 Below, Cornelia St. Café, Lincoln Center and the list goes on. He has performed with his own groups and as a sideman at jazz festivals in the US and abroad including the Jazz Festival Santiago, San Javier Jazz Fest, Vail Jazz Fest, Jazz in the Park in Kansas City, KS and many others.
He has performed with many pops orchestras around the US including the Houston Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, the Chesapeake Youth Symphony the Vancouver Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, Oklahoma City Symphony, the National Symphony, the Rochester Symphony, the Portland Symphony, Saratoga Springs Symphony, the Detroit Symphony the Baltimore Symphony and the Sun Valley Symphony.
In addition to Steve's prodigious double bass work, Steve also performs professionally as a pianist-vocalist. In 2017, he was the featured piano entertainer for Crystal Cruises, a round-the-world cruise where he entertained nightly for very appreciative audiences. He has performed at the New York Grand Hilton, the Plaza Hotel and the Waldorf Astoria at the famed Cole Porter piano. He is also a regularly scheduled, featured entertainer at Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel.
Steve currently resides in NYC where he teaches, gigs, records and composes.
“He proves himself a master in the invention of melodies and compilation of timbres. They give an idea of he vastness of the landscape of his native Nebraska.'‘
- Herra Grohs Gechoff, Abendzeitung (Munich)