Results for "bass, electric"

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 has performed at numerous festivals and jazz clubs throughout Italy, Europe, South America and Asia, collaborating with jazz musicians as Paul McCandless, John Taylor, Ernst Reijseger, Gabriele Mirabassi, Luciano Biondini, Javier Girotto, Roberto Ottaviano, Michele Rabbia, Antonio Tosques, Andy Sheppard, Alessandro Galati, Gaetano Partipilo, Nando Di Modugno and many others. With Gianni Iorio and Pasquale Stafano he is also member of the Nuevo Tango Ensamble, jazz-tango trio which performed many concerts all around the world. Together with Gabriele Mirabassi and Nando Di Modugno he created the trio Amori Sospesi, which now boasts a ten-year concert activity throughout Europe and an intense recording activity.

Session Jazz Band

Born: February 14, 1972

Hi everybody! We are "Session Jazz Band", a group of Hungarian jazz afficionados, made up of both amateur and professional musicians. The mission of our band is to keep alive, and promote, the rhythms of classical jazz in this region of Romania. We are very glad and very honored to be here.

Nob Kinukawa

Born and raised in the land of the rising sun, a Japan native bassist, Nob Kinukawa, first came to the United States in 1986 to attend the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Receiving instructions under jazz masters such as Dave Holland and George Russell, he began actively performing in the New England area, which led him to acquire several awards, among them the "Abe Laboriel Jazz Master Award" and the "International Music Award". His unique style of 6 string bass enhanced by the endless possibilities of a mounted MIDI device brought him to New York City, where he has become one of the busiest session players and producers. Since 1994, he has worked internationally with Gary Chaffee, Laco Deczi, Kenny Drew, Jr., Walter Fischbacher, George Garzone, Mick Goodrick, Hiro Honshuku, Cheikh Mbaye, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Dave Weckl, Jasmin Williams, David Wright and others

Billy Sokol

Born: May 10, 1961

Born in Huntington, New York, Sokol's early exposure to Henry Mancini, Herb Albert, and Burt Bacharach, and 20th Century Classical composers via his dad's Living Room Hi-Fi during the 1960s and 1970s, created a a foundation for a life as a player, composer, and producer. Billy studied piano in grade school and started on String bass when he was 13. Growing up at a moment in time when your typical neighborhood garage band would cover Return to Forever, Mahavishnu, Jeff Beck, Yes, and Pink Floyd, Billy gravitated towards instrumental music. Billy studied improvisation and figure studies with Darrell Dobson and attended Ithaca College School of Music