Having first picked up a bass at the age of 10, Glenn Schuetz began playing professionally at seventeen. He pursued his formal music training in Classical and Jazz Studies at the University of Illinois, and completed that work at the University of Texas at Austin. For the past few decades Austin has been his home, and he’s taken full advantage of its diverse and thriving music scene.

He is equally comfortable on electric and upright bass and has played many different genres, including jazz and jazz fusion, Afro-Cuban, African soukous (with Tamasha Afrikana), Brazilian (playing Austin’s Carnaval with Suzanna Sharp and the Samba Police for many years), rock, Americana, and folk. He has taught bass in Austin for over XX years, both privately, at Austin Community College (ACC), and through the Bass Emporium. His students include xxxxxxxxxx.

Glenn has toured extensively in the U.S., Canada and Europe, and for the last 20 years toured with the late singer-songwriter and Woody Guthrie scholar Jimmy LaFave. He has played with such luminaries as Jack McDuff, Eddie Harris, Lonnie Smith, Lila Downs, Ronny Cox, and David Bromberg, among others. He has shared the stage with Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, Herbie Hancock, Kris Kristofferson, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Gretchen Peters, and Eliza Gilkyson.