Jazz Articles about Oteil Burbridge

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 ...