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Geoffrey Lowe
Eclectic modern bassist
About Me
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Spent formative years in Colorado playing Violin, Guitar, Piano and Basses. Moved to
Chicago to play a wide variety of music with a wide variety of players. Currently writing and
playing Jazz, R&B, New Age, Blues, Brazilian and Classical as the schedule allows.
EDUCATION:
Colorado State University/Music Major, Bloom School Of Jazz, Private study with Jazz and
Classical Instructors on Acoustic String Bass, Fretless Electric and 5-String Electric and
Violin. Clinics, workshops, ongoing... A Student of this incarnation
EMPLOYMENT:
Studio recordings, live performance, all avenues of musical styles. Toured Europe with both
Jazz and Classical groups. Recorded CDs with Jazz and New Age artists.
Bassist for hire with The Buddy Rich Band, Ben E. King, The Shirelles, The Platters, The
Coasters, Bob McGrath (Sesame Street), Barrett Deems (Jazz-Great Drummer).
Has performed live with Dave Weckl, Monty Alexander, David Fathead Newman, Frank
Wess, Clark Terry, James Moody, Ernie Andrews, Freddie Cole, Lynda Carter, Noel Paul
Stookey, John Blackwell, Ian Paice, Bruce Dickinson, Gavin Harrison, Clarence Gatemouth
Brown, Clem Cattini, John Thomson, Ginger Baker, Everett Greene, Robert Irving III, Barbara
Morrison.
On CD tracks with David Sanborn, Danny Brubeck, Joel Rosenblatt, David Spinozza, Fareed
Haque. Paul Wertico, Buddy DeFranco, Steve Cole, Lisa Lauren, Ericson Holt, Chris Clifton.
Has Performed at: The Chicago Jazz Festival, The North Sea Jazz Festival (The Hague,
Holland), Montreaux Jazz Festival (Montreaux, Switzerland), Park Tower Blues Festival
(Tokyo, Japan), Spoletto Music Festival (Spoletto, Italy), International Cultural Festival (Hue,
Vietnam), & The London Palladium.
MUSICAL INFLUENCES:
James Jamerson, Ron Carter, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Blanton, Bootsie Collins,
Jaco Pastorious, Marcus Miller, Paul McCartney, Sting, Alphonso Johnson and many others.
PERSONAL QUOTE:
It ’s my intention to create and perform as many different genres of music, with as many
different musical friends as my time here on earth will allow.