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Aaron Germain

Aaron Germain's album "Before You Go" can be purchase on CD Baby, iTunes and Amazon

About Me

Biography: Spending 30 years as a busy hired-gun bass player, Aaron has been through all sorts of adventures; traveling the world and learning from the masters. This album displays his wide range of music experiences.

Growing up in Massachusetts, he cut his teeth playing upright and electric bass in bands ranging from jazz, blues, funk, reggae, to senegalese mbalax; and he found himself regularly driving to New York, Boston, Burlingame, Providence and just about anywhere else in New England where there was a gig. From the beginning he learned to be picky about quality, but not genre. When there is so much amazing music to be played, there should be no reason to have to specialize.

Moving to the San Francisco bay area in 2000, his adventures continued, and he quickly found himself working over time, sometimes playing two or three gigs a day. He entered the world of salsa and Afro-Cuban, Brazilian forro, and Caribbean steel pan music; he found himself accompanying Indian kathak dancers, veteran calypso singers from Trinidad, and navigating through dense, odd-meter jazz compositions.

Over the years Aaron has performed with artist such as Yusef Lateef, Stanley Jordon, Andy Narell, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Wolff, Francisco Aquabella, Nguyen Le, Paul McCandless John Handy, Melba Moore, Mary Wilson, Paula West, Jacqui Naylor, Dwight Trible, Eddie Marshal, Dave Ellis, Babatunde Lea, Alex de Grassi, Gordon Stone, Kenny Washington, Josh Jones, Akira Tana, Jamie Davis, Royal Hartigan, among many others.

He has performed at venues such as, the Blue Note (NY), Scullers (Boston), The House of Blues (Boston), The Blues Alley (Washington DC), Zanzibar Blue (Philadelphia), Yoshis (SF), Yoshis (Oakland), The Jazz School (Berkeley), Humphrey's by the Bay (San Diego), The Fillmore (SF), Dakotas (Minneapolis), The Iron Horse (Northampton), Herbst Theatre (SF), Kuumbwa (Santa Cruz), The San Francisco Jazz Festival, The North Beach Jazz Festival, The Fillmore Jazz Festival, The San Jose Jazz Festival, and the Drumming in the New Millenium Festival in front of the Great Pyramids of Egypt (December of 1999) ect.

My Jazz Story

I love jazz because...the possibilities are endless. I was first exposed to jazz...in my older brother's room listening the John Coltrane Africa Brass I met [musician name]...Bob Dorough The best show I ever attended was...Buster Williams Quartet at Yoshis The first jazz record I bought was...John Coltrane Blue Train My advice to new listeners...listen with an open mind Or whatever else you have in mind.