Results for "bass, electric"

Bjorn Egelius

Roland S. Wilson

Roland S. Wilson began his music career initial playing tenor and soprano saxophone. He doubled on bass in various bands around the New York City area in the late 70's. He became part of the house band at the Village Gate. As demand for his bass playing grew coupled with lung complications, bass became his principle instrument. In the late 90's Roland designed a 5 stringed instrument he called a 'Tenor bass' which was in the key of Bb he used for solo projects. As a bass player, he has played with the likes of George Benson, Patti Label, Regina Belle, Cyrus Chestnut, J Julius Hemphil, Hafiz Shabazz,Mark Whitfield, Aaron Scott, Junko Onishi, Kitty Brazelton and Korean pop start Kim Jung Ho. He recorded his debut album titled Monochrome Dreams with double bassist Kiyoto Fujiwara, Aaron Scott on drums, Larry Coakley on vibraphone and himself on tenor bass.

Rickard Malmsten

Born: March 16, 1974

Rickard Malmsten was born in Landskrona/Sweden on March 16, 1974 into a big family of 7 brothers and sisters. Starting on Drums at the age of 7, Rickard switched to bass guitar at age 13. Growing up surrounded by music of the likes of The Beatles and The Beach Boys setting the foundations for his musical interest, deciding to give music a shot he enrolled at Åhus music school in 1990 and graduated 1993. In search of a bigger city with a richer musical background Rickard moved to Los Angeles and continued his studies at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood. Rickard have since been a seasonal traveller and have up to date been living and working as a musician in 5 continents

Archie Ajay Jackson

Born: January 19, 1969

Started playing Bass Guitar at the age of 16. A self-taught musician, performed first professional show at the age of 18 with older brother Miki L’s Blues Band. During this time they opened up for several signed Blues artists such as Bobby Rush, Lefty Diz , Denise LaSalle. Ajay's first recording experience was with Blues artist Milwaukee Slim on Blue Moon Records. Ajay played Bass Guitar on several tracks on the album titled “Lemmon Avenue.” under stage name Junior M. Later he started venturing off into different genres of music and joined several local original Music only bands in the Twin Cities Banther, Shagg , Curbfeelers , Red Veda, Fresh water etc

Jamie Lebish

Born: May 19, 1959

Schooled at GIT and Berklee college of Music. I am also a guitar player/songwriter/producer.

Andres Rotmistrovsky

Born: August 21, 1982

Andres Rotmistrovsky (also known as Andres Rot): Bassist, Producer, Composer and Arranger Performs bass guitar almost every night of the week in the New York music scene, displaying versatility in playing virtually all styles of music from traditional and contemporary Jazz to R&B, Gospel, Pop, Rock, Celtic, Afro Beat, Flamenco, and Middle Eastern to Latin folkloric music from Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina. Performs with own group, The Andres Rotmistrovsky Trio or Quartet, that includes a set of Solo-Bass music (in addition to playing with others). Plays with such musicians as Paquito D' Rivera, Turkish Pop-Star Sertab Erener, Marta Gomez, and Maeve Gilchrist. Appears in a variety of venues, such as Carnegie Hall, Latin Grammys, and Boston Symphony Hall. Has toured the U.S

Bruce Pellowe

I play in my church Worship Team.

Petr Yakyamsev

Born: January 3, 1986

Born in Togliaty in 1986. Since 2003 living and working in Samara, Russian Federation. Since 2005 playing jazz-guitar, and since 2007 - acoustic and electric bass. Former of jazz-band "Boomerang Quartet" (2007, Samara, Russian Federation). Start professional musician's career. Since 2011 working as sound designer and composer for computer games.

Michael Manring

Hailed by many as the world’s leading solo bassist, Michael Manring has been pushing back the boundaries of what’s possible on the bass guitar for over three decades. While his technical skill and innovations always make an impression, it is his ability to communicate on a profound emotional level that most touches listeners. As editor Tom Darter wrote in Keyboard magazine after seeing one of Michael's solo concerts, "Forget his astounding technique and musicality; forget his absolute command of his instruments; forget how seamlessly the musical ideas and the performance of them were wedded together...The enlightenment came most from feeling (seeing, hearing) the joy Michael felt to be playing...his brand of transcendental chops and musical understanding...was all in the service of the final outcome, the joy of making music." Building on the conceptions of his teacher, the late bass legend Jaco Pastorius, Michael has developed a new approach to the instrument that includes unorthodox tunings, techniques and methodologies

Phil Traynor

Born: October 30, 1964

Phil has been a musician for over 45 years. He plays drums, bass, keyboards, and guitars. Phil's early influences that pointed him toward the Jazz world include Chuck Mangione, Pat Metheny, Yellowjackets, Spyro Gyra, Tim Weisberg, Harry Connick Jr, and the Bob Mintzer Big Band. Phil is also heavily into many independent artists. Being an indie himself, Phil is a staunch advocate of the independent music community. Most of you buy records and don't even realize how many thousands upon thousands of musicians, singers, and songwriters there are that have every bit of the talent, drive, and skill of the mainstream music community, but they just haven't found the right break