Results for "bass, electric"

Daryl Hayott

Daryl Hayott is a mainstay in the world of Fusion and Brazilian Jazz. He was born in Sao Paolo, Brazil and raised in New York City. As a teenager, he was a session player on drums and bass for Electric Lady Studios. You will find his work on many artists' cds. A child prodigy and multi-instrumentalist who plays drums, bass, keyboards, trumpet, violin, and other instruments, he was signed to Warner Bros. as a teen.(see Wikipedia). Daryl has been around the world a number of times and played with the who's who of contemporary music: Sade, Al Jarreau, Osibissa, Teddy Riley, to name a few. Daryl Hayott is currently CEO of KEEP THE LIGHT RECORDS, is involved in several cd projects and an indie film

Albert Yap

Born: February 10, 1964

Rick Lazaroff

Born: June 20, 1957

The Beginning Rick Lazaroff began playing professionally when he was 14 years old. His first professional band was called The Snakes, a blues band that featured keyboard whiz Fred Mandel, who later went on to perform and record with Elton John, Queen, Pink Floyd and Alice Cooper. Still in his teens, Rick began touring Ontario in many different bands playing many different styles. Playing Hard Rock with the David Matthews Band, (no, not the one that's so popular now) or playing Dance and Funk with Dancer, which featured well known Toronto vocalist, Chuck Jackson of Downchild Blues Band. Rick visited the stages of too many bars across the hinterlands of Canada

Everett B Walters

Everett B. Walters Smooth Jazz Recording Artist Guitarist- Michael Everett Brown and Bassist- Harold Walter Brown III, are the main ingredients of the smooth jazz recording artist: Everett B Walters. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, these gentlemen migrated to Las Vegas, NV. Their very first track written by HB and Mike AND THE STORY GOES LIKE THIS , was a European hit single on JAZZ FM double CD compilation, The Very Best of Smooth Jazz .From this compilation, the track was covered by Rendezvous Entertainment Recording Artist/Pianist Brian Simpson, on his latest recording, "IT'S ALL GOOD". After receiving rave reviews from radio stations around the globe, Everett B

Gino Foti

Born: January 1, 1963

Born in Messina, Sicily, Gino has been exposed to diverse types of music from an early age. Although not from a musical family, some of his earliest recollections are of his father playing European classical works and folk music from various Mediterranean countries on their record player, and his mother singing along to operas and popular Italian songs on the radio. Emigrating to the United States in the early seventies, at a time when jazz fusion and progressive rock were at the zenith of their popularity, he discovered the music of groups and artists like: Cream, Miles Davis, Al Di Meola, King Crimson, Lifetime, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius, Jean-Luc Ponty, Return To Forever, Rush, Carlos Santana, and Weather Report

Frank A. Stokes

New York City music with an indigenous twist...

Kam Falk

Born: August 16, 1963

A native of Chicago, Kam began learning music at an early age under the tutelage of his mother, a classical pianist, and the great concert pianist, Erna Salm. In the midst of his piano studies, he was recruited by his Grade-school orchestra to play cello - an instrument he continued to study throughout his college years. Kam comments, "This was significant because it gave me experience working in all sorts of ensembles playing chamber music and orchestral music and it introduced me to the music of the great composers." At age eleven, tragedy struck his family. His parents divorced, and his father returned to his native country, Jordan

Matthew Garrison

Born: June 2, 1970

Born June 2, 1970 in New York. Here he spent, with his mother Roberta Escamilla Garrison and sister Maia Claire Garrison, the first seven years of his life immersed in a community of musicians, dancers, writers, visual artists and poets. After the death of his father Jimmy Garrison (John Coltrane's bassist), his family relocated to Rome, Italy where he began to study piano and bass guitar. In 1988 Matthew returned to the United States and lived with his godfather Jack DeJohnette for two years. Here he studied intensively with both DeJohnette and bassist Dave Holland. In 1989 Matthew received a full scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston

Keith E. Cooper

Born: March 4, 1955

I am an accomplished electric bass guitar player and saxophonist who doubles on flute and clarinet. I have been a professional musician since 1972. I can sight read well and I sing lead and harmony. I have been in numerous bands including the US Army s 2nd Armored Division Band. I played baritone sax in the dance band. I played bass guitar and sang in the duty combo known as “The Statesmen”. In the chorus I was the section leader for the basses. I played both flute and piccolo in the concert band and the marching band. Civilian bands I have been in include the show band “The Boys Next Door.” I played bass, saxes, flute, some guitar and some keyboards as well as singing lead and harmony

John L. Schulman

Born: February 6, 1953

Berklee Class of 2010, private studies with jazz guru Charlie Banacos.