Results for "bass, electric"

Damon Banks

Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Damon Banks has performed with and / or recorded with some of the entertainment industry’s brightest stars, creative artists and innovative musicians. Most of these artists defy category and genre. These artists include: George Benson, Peter Gabriel, Caetano Veloso, Angelique Kidjo, Hassan Hakmoun, Chico Hamilton, Hubert Laws, Arto Lindsay, The Neville Brothers, Ronny Jordan, Eileen Ivers, Karsh Kale, Majek Fashek, “Wadada” Leo Smith, KRS- ONE, Marc Ribot, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Nat Adderley, Noel Pointer, Diedre Murray, Jamshied Sharifi, George Howard, Loose Ends, Bobby Womack, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, Sekou Sundiata, DJ

Larry Thomas

Born: June 18, 1957

nothing significant in the last 25 years. I'm getting back into music.

David Galea

Born: September 22, 1975

David has been playing Bass for at least fifteen years and professionally for 12 he has played in various situations ranging from Blues, jazz,Pop funk and anything else that grooves. At the moment he is working hard writting an arranging for the "BassBoy band". The "BassBoy Band" could be described as a combination of jazz, funk and fusion. David had been toying with the idea of this band for a few years. He has played with each member of the band in different settings but this is the first project were they have all come together, the result of this collaboration has been the release their first album entitled (funny enough) "Bass Boy" which was official released on the 25th of August to a packed crowd at Jazzworx

Chico Huff

Born: October 10, 1955

Born in Savannah, GA, I moved to Massachusetts at a very young age. My interest in playing music began when my father brought home an electric guitar and amp one night when I was around 11. I turned it up to ten, played a power chord, and I was converted. I played primarily guitar until the age of 15 or sixteen. I began playing mostly with a guitarist friend of mine, Ralph Nelson and my brother Nick on drums. Ralph and I would switch off on bass for the makeshift power trio. Eventually the balance became more me on bass. I then got my first gig ever playing bass and that was it, I was a bassist

Michael Ebere Chidubem

Born: October 17, 1974

Michael Ebere Chidubem was born Michael Ebere Nwosu on 17th October 1974. Most people call him Mike 'Bere. Mike studied Jazz under Dr. Sotiris Papadoupolus between 1995-2000. He started as a Drummer and eventuall became a bass player. He is also a Visual artist and has done over 2000 paintings.

Mark Walker - Bass

Bassist Mark Walker, founder of MPM Productions, has performed with national jazz and gospel recording artists throughout the United States, and abroad. With his debut CD, Forever Yours, he is certainly taking his career to another level. "He Cares" is a sultry, instrumental ballad which mixes his jazz background with his love for Gospel. "Blessings" incorporates a Latin flavor to welcome all jazz lovers. A phenomenal keyboardist, writer and producer, Tim Carmon, whose credits include Babyface, Eric Clapton, and B.B. King, joins Walker in the production of Forever Yours

Nicky Orta

Nicky Orta was born on April 29, 1964 in Las Vegas, Nevada. As part of a musical family —- his father, Ernesto, is a guitarist, and his brother, Michael, is a pianist —- it was inevitable that Nicky would try his hand at a musical instrument. At age 11, his father asked him if he would like to play the bass and Nicky quickly discovered that he had an affinity for the instrument. He spent hours in his room copying bass lines from records. After a couple of years of playing by ear, Nicky was introduced to the brilliant and renowned instructor Vince Bredice with whom he studied for 12 years

Jerry Ericsson

Born: May 7, 1969

Born in May, 1969, started with bass at age 13. Formed a band as a teenager, and went on touring around Sweden. Moved to Vienna at the age of 21 to study jazz music. Graduated with a professional diploma and continued touring in Sweden, alongside many various artists. Plays both electric and acoustic bass and has released one soloalbum so far. Composes music for the band EEQ and also writes arrangements for string quartet, big band, jazz groups and more. 

Dominique di Piazza

Born: 1959

Dominique di Piazza, who resides in France, is of Sicilian origin and was raised by his gypsy stepfather, a heritage that would influence his musicality in later years. He played both guitar and bass for a period of time, and after hearing the infamous Jaco Pastorius in 1979 decides to focus strictly on the bass, and not long after starts finding the unique voice he becomes very well known for.

Being a self taught musician, he immediately started developing his own style of playing, and by the early '80s had refined his signature right hand approach. It began by using the thumb, index, and middle finger instead of the traditional two finger approach, and that move gave birth to the four finger technique which is used as a secondary technique by many of the top players in the world

Hartmut Hillmann

Born: April 22, 1961

Hartmut Hillmann is one of the most influential German six string bass players for more than twenty-five years. He started in 1987 to adapt the styles of the likes as Jaco Pastorius and Marcus Miller for the six stringed fretted and fretless instrument. Besides his incredible ability to groove and playing supportive, he is an ethnomusicologist having studied African and Indian rhythms intensively. Leaving the Europe and Africa touring odd-meter Funk band „Zabriskie Point“ after six years of collaboration in 1997, he started to concentrate on his solo career with his project „Illicit Poetry“ as composer, arranger and leader