Calum Gourlay

Calum Gourlay is a Scottish jazz bassist, composer, and band leader. Career The son of a music teacher, Gourlay grew up in Glasgow. At the age of ten he began learning the cello, then four years later started playing double bass. He heard Scottish jazz musicians at workshops taught by his father on Saturday mornings. He moved from Glasgow to Dunfermline, participating in the Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra. He played in a youth band led by Tommy Smith until 2004 when he traveled to London to attend the Royal Academy of Music.