Chris Tordini is an in-demand bassist in the jazz and experimental music scene, touring and recording both nationally and internationally. He has toured and recorded with Andy Milne's ‘Dapp Theory’ for over a decade, and he has been a close collaborator with MacArthur fellow Tyshawn Sorey since 2005, most notably as a member of Sorey’s long standing piano trio. Tordini is a founding member of the Becca Stevens Band. Additionally, he is the bassist of the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, having recorded on the band’s Grammy nominated release entitled “All Can Work,” and has recorded with The Claudia Quintet.
Since graduating from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in 2006, Tordini has performed and recorded with prominent bandleaders such as Steve Lehman, Theo Bleckmann, Caroline Davis, Anna Webber, Matt Mitchell, Dan Weiss, Billy Hart, Lee Konitz, Okkyung Lee, Tigran Hamasyan, Greg Osby, Jeremy Pelt, Jo-Yu Chen, Logan Richardson, Andrew D'Angelo, Jim Black, Chris Speed, and Ari Hoenig, among others. Tordini has led groups playing his music all around NYC for the past decade at venues including the Village Vanguard, the Jazz Gallery, Cornelia St. Cafe, Barbes, Bowery Poetry Club, Fat Cat, SEEDS, and Korzo among others. He is a member of the collaborative trio The Choir Invisible, whose debut record was released in August 2020 on Intakt Records. Tordini also has a longstanding collaboration with saxophonist/producer Curtis Macdonald, using Tordini’s solo bass improvisations to create vast soundscapes.