Jazz Articles about Oteil Burbridge

Denver Comes Alive 2020

by Geoff Anderson
February 15, 2020

Oteil & Friends / Poppa Funk and the Night Tripper / Ghost Live / Star Kitchen Mission Ballroom Denver Comes Alive Denver, CO January 31, 2020 The first European settlers arrived in the Denver area in 1858. Since then, it's been (nearly) non-stop growth flooding the plains with humanity and creeping into the foothills. Yet, it wasn't until Friday night that (apparently) Denver finally came alive (at least according to the concert hype). I, ...

Oteil Burbridge: Long Live the Dead

by Alan Bryson
August 24, 2018

In 2015 rhythm guitarist Bob Weir and drummer Bill Kreutzmann, founding members of the Grateful Dead, formed the band Dead & Company, along with longtime Grateful Dead keyboardist Jeff Chimention and drummer / percussionist Mickey Hart. They enlisted some fresh blood into the band with the addition of singer/guitarist John Mayer, and bassist Oteil Burbridge. A couple of months prior to their first summer tour I interviewed Oteil Burbridge, and published it here on All About Jazz in audio form. ...

Oteil Burbridge

by Alan Bryson
May 24, 2015

Oteil Burbridge's name has come up often during my interviews, and it was a treat to finally speak with him. He is one of the most respected musicians on the Southern music scene, probably best known as the Grammy Award-winning bassist of the Allman Brothers Band--a position he held for 17 years until the band's recent retirement. His roots in the Southern scene go deep, he is also an original member the Aquarium Rescue Unit, a band with a cult ...

Oteil Burbridge: Profile of a Folk Jazz Player

by Ben Scholz
July 18, 2014

Rarely does the opportunity to interview a touring musician arrive with much advance notice. Schedules tend to be dictated by airline departure times, hotel check-out policies and sound checks. If I am lucky, I'll know of an upcoming show in town a few weeks in advance and can plan accordingly. If the artist has a few minutes to chat post-gig, I usually attempt to prep them with a few questions and follow up via phone later. Sometimes however, an opportunity ...

A Fireside Chat With Oteil Burbridge

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2003

I must plead ignorance, but two years ago if you had asked me about the Allman Brothers, my response would have been “Sweet Home Alabama"? But through a friend in the “industry" who is code named “a little bird," I have become somewhat and I say somewhat in the loosest way, a Grateful Dead listener. And as a result, I have been investigating so called “jam bands" with some regularity, and a day trip to Amoeba provided me ...

Oteil Burbridge and the Peacemakers: The Family Secret

by Phil DiPietro
April 6, 2003

You may recall John Snyder's name from his tenures at CTI, Horizon Records, and his own label, Artists House--not to mention past Grammy winners lists (he's been associated with 5). By the time he was 30 he'd worked with such industry giants as Creed Taylor, Rudy Van Gelder, Herb Alpert and Ahmet Ertegun, as well as jazzers George Benson, Chet Baker, Jim Hall, Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden.

Now 55, he's resurrected Artists House as a fully manifestoed ...

Oteil Burbridge: Making Peace

by Phil DiPietro
April 10, 2001

Oteil Burbridge is most famous in the world of rock'n'roll, as the southern rock-bassist's bassist, locking down the groove with a pick and a P-Bass like the Allman's founding master of that groove, Berry Oakley. Oteil is most renowned for his role as a core member and virtuoso bassist on the jamband scene, and specifically for his role in the Aquarium Rescue Unit (ARU), whose extended jazzy jams had more in common with the southern-tinged fusion of the ...