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Jeff Carney

Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

Email
carneyj1@newschool.edu

Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street

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Jeff Carney

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JEFFREY CARNEY is touring bassist for Barbra Streisand and jazz great Bobby McFerrin.    He has performed with such jazz artists as Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson, as well as pop icons Sting, James Taylor, Elton John and Andrea Bocelli.    Jeff is principal bassist of the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.    On Broadway, he has played first chair for many productions, including The Secret Garden, Cyrano, Beauty and the Beast, Anything Goes, and Les Misérables.    Studio/Film credits include Gemini Man, The Greatest Showman, HailCaesar!, Carol, Mr. Holmes, True Grit, Julie & Julia, The Good Shepherd, Secret Window, Shaft 2, and The Producers, to name a few.    Jeff was a member of Garrison Keillor's NPR radio band for Prairie Home Companion and continues to tour with the show.   For over 20 years, he has been a professor of double bass and electric bass at The New School. 

Degrees Held

BM, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Current Courses

Future Courses

  • Lessons 1000
    JLES 1000 - Spring 2027
  • Lessons 2000/3000: 8
    JLES 3008 - Spring 2027
  • Lessons 2000/3000: 12
    JLES 3012 - Spring 2027
  • VP: Rhythm Section
    JPER 4700 - Spring 2027

Past Courses

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