Aidan Plank

Bass

Aidan Plank has served as bassist for the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra since 2014. Along with this, Plank maintains a busy schedule as a freelance bassist, composer, and educator. As a bassist he has worked with: Dan Wall, Joe Lovano, Ken Peplowski, Vanessa Rubin, Joe Maneri, Joshua Breakstone, Yoron Israel, John Fedchock, David Berkman, Tim Armacost, The Cleveland Orchestra, Daniel Lippel, and many others. 

Outside of the CJO plank can be heard with Pulse (Brad Wagner, Anthony Fuoco, Aidan Plank, and Dustin May), The Garrett Folger and Aidan Plank Duo, The Jack Schantz Jazz Unit, The Engine Room (Jackie Warren, Aidan Plank, and Jim Rupp) and the Third Law Composers Collective. 

Plank's works as a composer can be heard on Pulse's self titled release on New Focus Recordings and on Where We Started,  a collection of compositions and an arrangement by Plank, on Hidden Cinema Records.

Since 2024 Plank has served as the Assistant Teaching Professor of Jazz/Bass at Bowling Green State University's College of Musical Arts. 

Plank holds a BS in Biology from Cleveland State University and an MM in Jazz Studies from the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University.