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Linda May Han Oh has all the basses covered: ‘She’s a singular, deeply creativejazz master’
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“Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine and Primus are not the bands a Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist, composerand band leader usually cites as key early influences. But there is nothing usual about Linda May Han Oh, who was the model forthe animated, bass-playing character Miho in the Oscar-winning Pixar film, “Soul.”

Born in Malaysia, raised in Australia and based near Boston — where she teaches at the Berklee College of Music and is a keymember of the Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice — Oh has all the basses covered. This holds true as a solo artist with six acclaimed albums to her credit, a rising film score composer and as the bassist of choice in the bands of Pat Metheny, Vijay Iyer, JoeLovano, Terri Lyne Carrington and other jazz greats.

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— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune

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