Cody McKinney is a bassist, composer, improviser, and sound artist currently residing in the Twin Cities. He has been actively composing, recording, and performing since the mid 1990s. McKinney studied jazz and improvisation at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and, later, composition and process conceptualization at the New School in New York. His work straddles “a haunted space somewhere between free jazz and musique concrète,” with hallmarks that include his “liquid mastery of rhythm” and his use of graphic and text scores with indeterminacy and fixed time. Some of McKinney’s recent works have been recorded by his contemporary trio, Bloodline.
Bill & Reid & Ethan & Dave’s Excellent Adventure
Bass player Cody McKinney reviews the September 29 performance of The Bad Plus Bill Frisell ’85–’95, “a very special night of collaboration between some of the deeper improvisers alive.”