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Evan Marien

Born: July 18, 1986

Evan Marien is an award-winning bassist, composer, producer, and budding 3D artist born and raised in Decatur, Illinois. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2009 and has lived in the NYC area since 2010.

He’s known primarily for his solo recordings and a duo project with Dana Hawkins, but more recently he has been heard playing bass in the bands of Tigran Hamasyan, Wayne Krantz, Elliot Moss and was honored to be the last bassist in guitar legend Allan Holdsworth’s band.

Melvin Gibbs

Melvin Gibbs has been called "the best bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine. A well- respected veteran of the New York music scene, he has contributed his singular talents to major artists in many diverse genres of music, appearing on close to 200 albums. Born in Brooklyn N.Y. his first musical studies were on the congas and Latin percussion, focused on the Afro-Diasporatic rhythms of Puerto Rico, Cuba and Brazil. He studied with Papo Dadiego, later to become known as the maker of Jopa Percussion instruments, who was his next-door neighbor. After deciding to switch to bass he studied acoustic bass at The Muse is Brooklyn under former John Coltrane bassist Reggie Workman and electric bass privately with Vic Collucci. The first band he joined featured the late Alphonia Tims (Future Funk Now!, ROIR) on guitar, who would later become a formative influence in his musical life

Bálint Hrecska

Born: August 12, 1981

Bálint Hrecska was born in Budapest, on 12 August, 1981. Music had interested him from a very early age and so, his parents enrolled him to a musical primary and middle school where he met up with his first and really important impacts. After middle school came a few years of side tracking from these studies, but his interest towards music stayed constant, more over grew a great deal. In 2000, just before his high school graduation, he got his very first bass guitar. At this time he was mostly into the progressive rock groups of the 70’s, but he soon came to meet Jaco Pastorius’ works

Richard Bona

Born: October 28, 1967

Born in 1967 in the village of Minta in East Cameroon, Richard Bona grew up in a home filled with music. He began to perform in public at the age of five, singing in the village church with his mother and four sisters. His earliest instruments were wooden flutes and hand percussion. Eventually he constructed his own 12-string acoustic guitar. After moving to the bigger city of Douala, Richard began playing gigs at the age of 11 on a rented electric guitar. A major turning point in his life happened in 1980 when a Frenchman came to his town and established a jazz club in a local hotel. The club owner heard about the young local prodigy and hired him to assemble a band

Kestutis Stanciauskas

Born: January 4, 1951

Kestutis Stanciauskas organized "Streetdancer" as a quartet in 1973. The fundamental purpose for the ensemble was and is to play original compositions using improvisation and original composition as the foundation for creativity. By 1974 Streetdancer released their first self-titled album on Future Records. This first release gained a four star review in Downbeat

Glenn 'SmittyG' Smith

Born: 1965

Howdy! I’m bassist and composer SmittyG from Texarkana. I started playing bass in 1983 after trying several other instruments and never getting a real attachment. I joined my first band, Deacon Dark, in 2003 and have played with several bands, mostly blues and classic rock, since that time. In 2006, I started up Narada Weeps as a project to explore my loop based ambient jazz and then, in 2009, started The SmittyG Experience to try some ideas with a jam band approach.

Currently, I'm working on SmittyG on Bass as a solo bassist project using loops and delays to bring my ambient and jazz compositions to the stage

Glen Browne

Born: July 2, 1952

Glen Browne: bassist extraordinaire, producer, and bandleader During the 1970s when America’s best ever sibling group, The Jackson Five, produced a flood of Top 10 hits, and the Sylvers created a surfable swell, a Jamaican equivalent, The Browne Bunch, consisting of school-aged brothers Glen, Dalton, Noel, Cleveland and Danny Browne, was generating small ripples across Reggaeland Glen, the eldest, born on July 2, 1952, was the first with the intense desire for music and the other brothers followed in his footsteps. They would, however, create a family tradition that trickled down to the next generation Glen Browne started out in entertainment as a sound system (disco) operator during the late 1960s

Robert Barone

Born: December 20

BAR-ONE Production & Publishing LLC was founded in 2006. Robert Barone, President and Founder has been a writer, producer, professional Bassist and musician for thirty years. Born and raised in Newark, NJ, he has performed on cd's, films, ad media, and of course Live! He has performed with likes of Sun Ra, Spirit of Life Ensemble, Ornett Coleman, Aaron Bell, Ernie Edwards, Jimmy Ponder, Bill Saxton, just to name a few. He has performed in New York City’s Town Hall, The Blue Note, The Bottom Line, CBGB's, S.O.B's as well as New Jersey Performing Arts Center. His discography also includes his compositions “God’s by Design" (Harlem Boys Choir 2004), “In the Middle of Nowhere"(Jackie Jones1998) He’s performed all over North America and Europe

Damon Warmack

Born: December 21, 1975

By picking up a bass guitar on Christmas Day of 1991, Damon Warmack embarked upon a journey that would take him from Detroit's east side to Asia (Japan), Europe (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Slovokia and Russia), Canada, New York, Los Angeles and a few places in between. Early influences such as Earth, Wind & Fire, George Duke, Marcus Miller, The Brothers Johnson, Frank Zappa, Branford Marsalis and John Patitucci helped guide Damon through the seemingly unrelated worlds of Jazz, Hip-Hop, R&B, Afro-Cuban and beyond. Damon has shared stage and/or studio with Fransico Mora Catlett, Pamela Wise, Wendell Harrison, Calvin Brooks, Stephanie Mills, Orchestra Fuego, Thornetta Davis, Vincent Herring, Fred Hammond, Gary Thomas, Inohs Sivad, Kelvin Sholar's Esoterica, Bujo Kevin Jones' 10th World, Mathias, Q-Tip, Ronnie Cuber, Harold McKinney, The Edge, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Alexander O'Neal, Gayelynn McKinney and the McKinney Zone, Robert Bradley, Shelby-Brown, The Whitfield Music Group, Amp Fiddler, The Spinners, Brian O'Neal, Straight Ahead, Good Brother, Lenny White, Johnny O'Neal, KEM and Stevie Wonder just to name a few. He's also participated in plays such as Dreamgirls, Anne Of Green Gables, MasterMixx, Perlie, Unforgettably, The Great One, Menopause: The Musical, Strong Women Keep Coming and Black Nativity. Selected Discography: Inohs Sivad-IS Inohs Sivad-Changes Andre Frappier & Chris Kaercher s/t The Whitfield Music Group-This Time ShelbyBrown ltd.-No Boundaries Bujo Kevin Jones-Tenth World Kelvin Sholar-Messionik

Pierluigi Balducci

Born: October 3, 1971

Playing his electric bass and acoustic bass guitar, Pierluigi Balducci performed at numerous festivals and jazz clubs throughout Italy, Europe and Asia, collaborating with jazz musicians as Paul McCandless, John Taylor, Ernst Reijseger, Gabriele Mirabassi, Luciano Biondini, Javier Girotto, Michele Rabbia, Antonio Tosques and many others. With Gianni Iorio and Pasquale Stafano he is also member of the Nuevo Tango Ensamble, performing many concerts all around the world. Name As a composer and a band leader, he released various albums under his name (since 2006 for the Italian label Dodicilune), always striving for a balance not only between writing and improvisation, but also between African-American jazz language and European classical tradition. The main Italian jazz magazines have dedicated considerable interviews to him