Melissa Hasin
Backgroundnon_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth dateNovember 3, 1954 (age 71)
Birth placeHollywood, California, U.S.
InstrumentCello, violin, strings
GenreJazz, rock
LabelCexton Records

Melissa "Missy" Hasin (born November 3, 1954) is an American cellist who was raised in Newport Beach, California.

Biography

Although her parents wanted her to stick with classical music, she played the electric bass in various blues and rock bands as a teenager but later concentrated mainly on the cello. She earned a BA in music from California State University Long Beach in 1978. Hasin considers Jaco Pastorius and John Patitucci as primary influences.[1]

In the 1980s she played in the improvising jazz string quartet Greene String Quartet with the violinists Richard Greene and Margaret Wooten, and the violist James Ross.[2]

She contributed cello to albums such as Teddy Edwards' Blue Saxophone (1992),[3] Tori Amos' Under the Pink (1994).[4]

Discography

  • Cellistic Visions, Cexton Records[1]
  • How My Heart Sings (1997), Cexton Records[1]

References

  1. ^ Henderson, Alex. "Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved October 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Lawson, Sonya R. (2026). "2 Saxes and Violins: Violins in Jazz from 1950 to 2000". Bowed Strings in 20th-Century Jazz in the United States - It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got Those Strings. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781040613245.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard & Morton, Brian (1994). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette. Penguin Books. p. 384. ISBN 9780140179491.
  4. ^ Torem, Lisa (2025). "4 Under the Pink (1994)". Tori Amos - Every Album, Every Song. Sonicbond Publishing. ISBN 9781789524659.