Jazz Articles about Robert Chini

Robert Chini: World Without Tears

by Dave Hughes
August 1, 1999

San Diego-based Robert Chini (pronounced "keen-e") has extensive and varied musical background. He started out as a drummer, then picked up guitar. While playing in a local band, John Ford Coley was in the audience, and asked if he played bass. Although he didn't (yet), he borrowed a bass, auditioned for the gig, and spent the next nine years with England Dan and John Foley, which in turn allowed him to develop many more musical contacts. Although he's ...