About Ethan Jodziewicz
“...a sensitive and imaginative player...”
“He is quite the phenomenal musician.”
“A major new instrumental voice.”
“...beautiful and technically impressive solos...”
Originally from Olympia, WA, Ethan Jodziewicz is a versatile bassist and producer currently living in Nashville, TN. He has toured with Aoife O’Donovan, Sierra Hull, The Milk Carton Kids, Lindsay Lou, Maya de Vitry, Molly Tuttle, Mark O’Connor, Darol Anger, Tony Trischka, and many others. He is also a member of fusion band John Mailander's Forecast, regularly performs with jazz pianist/composer Pascal Le Boeuf, and is a substitute player for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.
Ethan has played on television (Jimmy Kimmel, Kelly Clarkson, Rachael Ray, CBS Saturday Morning, PBS Bluegrass Underground), National Public Radio (Live From Here, A Prairie Home Companion, Tiny Desk Concerts), and in concert halls and on festival stages across North America and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, The Grand Ole Opry, and many others. In his travels, he has found himself sitting in with such artists as Béla Fleck, Bruce Hornsby, Kacey Musgraves, Turtle Island Quartet, Punch Brothers, David Grisman, and more.
In the studio, Ethan has contributed to over 100 albums and soundtracks as a bassist, producer, engineer, arranger, and composer. His playing was heavily featured on Sierra Hull's GRAMMY nominated 2016 release Weighted Mind. He also engineers and produces from his home studio The Secret Woods.
Ethan holds a B.M. from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied bass with Hal Robinson and Edgar Meyer. He also studied at Ithaca College School of Music with Nicholas Walker and Shawn Conley.
Ethan uses Aguilar amplifiers/pickups/preamps, Sadowsky MetroLine electric basses, ISI Aceto-Violect upright bass pickups, Lanikai bass ukuleles, Grace Design preamps, Hipshot drop tuners, and Reunion Blues gig bags.
“...some great arco bass by Jodziewicz... If you’re a bass fan you have to hear Jodziewicz’s work...”
“We’ve all heard bass players take a stab at fiddle tunes... devising creative ways to reduce them to an arrangement that can fit with the difficulties of the bass... But Ethan plays them fully realized, as smoothly as Kenny Baker ever pulled a bow.”
(photos on this page taken by Lily Smith and Jeremiah Stricklin)