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Though born in Bakersfield, California, Julio Appling was raised in Tacoma, Washington. He began piano at age seven and took lessons through high school. In the fourth grade he played trumpet in the school band, but, due to Julio attended the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, where he participated in the jazz program and initially intended to pursue a major in physics. His priorities soon changed when he began taking double bass lessons in his second year and promptly joined the university orchestra to “make himself practice.” He spent his remaining two years developing and pursuing an interest in music history while performing regularly in a wide variety of projects including the jazz fusion group Macumba Macamba, the progressive rock band Oneiria, and his jazz trio The Harlequin Jazz Quartet.
While he doesn’t have a favorite genre of music, Julio’s favorite artist is Paul Simon and his favorite bassists are Ray Brown and Jaco Pastorius. Julio likes computers, short fiction, bookstores, theatre, cats, rain, keeping up with sports (mainly pro basketball, tennis, and figure skating), coffee shops, celebrity tabloids, open-ended conversation, long walks, renting movies, and eating. Julio dislikes baseball, most forms of social and political activism, dentists, spiders, dogs (except for Welsh corgis), “ice dancing,” excessively hot weather, swimming, most of Southern California (except San Diego), fluorescent lighting, and airplanes.
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a complete lack of aptitude for the instrument, switched to trombone. He began taking guitar lessons at age ten and soon after picked up the electric bass to join the junior high jazz band. In high school Julio played electric bass, trombone, and studied classical guitar. 
Julio completed his master's degree in musicology at Bowling Green State University in 2007, and his interests within the field include early jazz, French modernism, music history pedagogy, and music cognition. Julio currently teaches courses in music at Tiffin University, where he has past served as a jazz clinician and bass instructor. Julio was invited to join the Student Loan in February 2006, and still performs regularly as a freelance classical and jazz bassist, having appeared alongside artists nationwide including songwriters Joel Smith and Jordan Ross, and jazz artists including Ron Stout, Dave Tippett, and Gene Parker.