Results for "Bass"

Robert Chandler

Born: January 12, 1953

This all began when R.C. was exposed to the Delta Blues, Western Swing and Old-Time Country by his Grandfather at the age of 8. By age 11, he had started a semi-pro career as a percussionist with local concert bands and symphony orchestras. At the age of 14, he was performing in jazz clubs in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. At 15 he performed with Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops, The New England Conservatory Orchestra at Tanglewood and recorded on percussion with jazz trumpeter Bobby Hutcherson.

He began his career in Blues as a drummer with the Rhode Island band "Natural Facts"; switching to bass then to guitar. R.C. has also performed with locals Young Neal and The Vipers, and James Montgomery. After a divorce a little more than 2 decades ago, R.C. moved to Chicago and eventually performed with the likes of Buddy Guy, Carey Bell, Big Daddy Hawkins and Roosevelt Sykes. He feels honored to have shared the stage and jammed with B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Robert Cray, and Albert Collins!

Gabriel Espinosa

The alluring melodies, engaging harmonies and insinuating rhythms of Brazil permeate this very pleasing ZOHO debut by Mexico-born bassist-composer-arranger Gabriel Espinosa. And yet, lurking beneath the soothing surface of these buoyant tunes is a profound depth of real-deal jazz expression presented by an international all-star cast of world class players and improvisers including Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi, Swiss alto sax burner George Robert, Brazilian pianist Helio Alves, Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo, Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen, Brazilian drummer Adriano Santos, Mexico-born drumming sensation Antonio Sanchez, Brazilian percussion player Jacinto Macedo, vocalists Darmon Meader and Kim Nazarian of the New York Voices and singer-composer Alison Wedding. A native of Merida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan, Espinosa grew up absorbing the sounds of the bossa nova movement that swept the United States and Mexico in the early 1960s

Eric Revis

Born: May 31, 1967

One of the most talented and accomplished musicians of his generation, Grammy Award-winning bassist and composer Eric Revis has firmly established himself as an important voice in jazz. Branford Marsalis states, “Eric’s sound is the sound of doom; big, thick, percussive.” Scores of musicians across various disciplines agree. Revis has performed and recorded with Betty Carter, Peter Brötzmann, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Jason Moran, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Steve Coleman, Ralph Peterson, Lionel Hampton, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Cyrille, and Tarbaby, the experimental trio he tri-leads with Orrin Evans and Nasheet Waits, as well as another trio, Options, also with Waits, and Bennie Maupin. Manning the bass chair with Branford Marsalis’s powerfully flexible quartet since 1997, Revis has recorded eight albums with the ensemble in addition to touring the globe with them many times over

Olivier Stalon

Born a last century’s fall, Olivier waited around 20 springs to take his first lesson with Maarten Weyler in Antwerp. When he was able to use 2 strings and less than fifteen centimetres of his guitar, he decided to try to use the entire surface off his bass neck and became a pupil of Michel Hatzi at Brussel’s Conservatory. Thanks his new skills, he played with different bands, combo & big-bands in several conservatories & workshops. His instructors were Pierre Vaiana, Eric Legnini, Richard Rousselet, John Ruocco, Diederick Wissels, Kris Defoort. As electricity became more and more expensive; Olivier bought an upright bass

Rob Thorsen

Composer and bassist Rob Thorsen’s new release, “Lasting Impression,” takes us on a journey through an audible photo gallery of contrasts, colors, shades of light and space. Although he has focused on musical landscapes before as a leader on three previous CD’s, his current project demonstrates an evolution and maturity as a composer and musician that clearly raises the bar. Rob is a devoted and seasoned instrumentalist, equally confident with standards and original compositions, whose bass sings with a warmth and creative spirit while maintaining an engaging interactive dialogue with the ensemble

Court Crawford

Born: February 21, 1959

Court Crawford has been playing professionally since 1984 throughout the Northwest and the San Francisco Bay Area, including stints with Barbara Donald and Unity, Jeffery Morgan, Heliotroupe, Angelsong, The Mud Bay Jugglers, La Casita, Salsa Primera, Neal Adams, Susan Lowman Robinson, The Velveteen Lotharios, Desamor, and Elere. He has composed several film scores and played in dozens of pit orchestras for Broadway shows. He studied ethnomusicology and composition and graduated from The Evergreen State College. In 1986 he co-founded and played with the Olympia Chamber Orchestra. He has studied music with Glenn Moore, Chuck Metcalf, Milt Hinton, Rick Laird, and Bert Wilson

Rhonda Smith

Rhonda Smith started playing bass at the tender age of 12, when her older brother brought home a bass and told her not to touch it. This union would prove to fulfill her life long fascination and love for the low end. She plays 4,5 and 6 stringed fretless and fretted basses, along with piccolo and acoustic, all of which you can hear on her debut CD Intellipop and on over 10 albums from her 10 year span of discographies and world tours as the bassist with Prince and The New Power Generation (NPG). Redefining the role of gifted musicians, bass player Rhonda Smith encapsulates all the attributes of a legend in the making

Stephen Schwab

Born: April 29, 1961

Born in NYc Steve Schwab is a bassist,composer,and music theorist.Steve graduated NYU in the early eighties and has been working professionally ever since.His as yet unpublished theory "Theory of Polyrhythmic Harmony and Motion" reflects his unique musical vision.As a composer Steve writes primarily in the R&B and Jazz idioms hough certain pieces touch other genres.

Jacob Seigler

Jacob "Jay" Seigler has been an active member in the NYC music scene for the past 4 years while also attending New York Institute of Technology. Jacob began playing the bass at age 15 and was entirely self-taught by listening to and watching artists such as Jimmy Haslip, Victor Wooten, Nathan East, Kim Stone, Pino Palladino, among others. His vocabulary on the bass is further expanded due to his 16 years of piano and 9 years of trombone background prior to bass.

Gerald Carboy

Born: March 22, 1950

I began playing the bass in 1962. As most players of that time period, I was greatly influenced by the rhythm & blues of America and the influx of British music. I studied music theory, composition and arranging with the Maestro Julio C. Malatesta. In later years studied jazz composition and improvisation with Anthony Bertolotti.

Beginning in 1976, I began formulating an instructional methodology for all instruments which brings together the approaches of philosophy, physiology, and music theory under one concept based upon my experience as a music instructor and performing artist. My methodology is primarily a study in improvisation and chord construction, but is widely known by many simply as THE METHOD and is widely used and accepted by musicians and music instructors across the nation.

Internationally - I performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival and many more throughout Europe performing with Chris Hinze (Netherlands)(Keystone/RCA) with Kevin Eubanks (USA)(Leader of the Tonight Show band), and Dee Dee Bridgewater (USA)(Montreux only).

I Also performed throughout the United Kingdom with David Sancious & Tone (USA) (Columbia/Arista).

Nationally - I performed with David Sancious & Tone, and Barry Miles & Silverlight, jazz guitarists Tal Farlow, Vic Juris, Kevin Eubanks, Vinnie Corrao, Bob Devoe and Doug Clark, jazz pianists Barry Miles and Bob Himmelberger, drummer Terry Silverlight, and singers Alex Ligertwood, Rob Paparozzi, Jeanie Bryson, and Jackie Jones.

2008 - Worked on new project for USA market