Max Johnson

Max Johnson is an American double bassist and composer working in New York, active in free jazz, improvised music and bluegrass. He studied at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and later took a master's in composition at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has played with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Muhal Richard Abrams and Mary Halvorson, and with bluegrass musicians such as Sam Bush and David Grisman. Johnson studied bass with Henry Grimes, Mark Helias and Reggie Workman.