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In this month’s installment of Pick’s Transcription Workshop I’ve chosen to focus on a young technically brilliant bass phenom from France named Hadrien Feraud. If you haven’t heard of him yet, you will soon. He’s featured on guitar god John McLaughlin’s latest CD “Industrial Zen” where he is joined by past bass phenom Matt Garrison along with McLaughlin’s nephew Tony Grey sharing the bass duties. At only 22 years old Hadrien in my opinion the most gifted young bass player to come along in the last 20 years. He’s been called the next Jaco and even though Hadrien credits Pastorius and Weather Report with inspiring him to pick up the bass at the tender age of 8, to my ears he plays little to none of Jaco’s stock licks. His playing reminds me much more of his mentor Dominique DiPiazza with some Garrison influence thrown in there as well. He’s put out his first solo CD which is available at his website www.hadrien-feraud.com and you can also check him out on You Tube for clips of this future bass great.
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Lucas Pickford has written 26 articles in BMM.
I grew up in both Southern and Northern California and started playing the bass at age 13 after hearing and falling in love with the sound of Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report. My father Loren Pickford is a tremendous jazz musician and pretty much taught me everything I know about harmony, theory, and chord scales. He threw me in the deep end so to speak and I started gigging professionally with him at age 14. My dad dropped me off in Boston in 1988 at age 17 to attend Berklee College of Music on a scholarship. I graduated in three years with honors in 1991.
After Berklee I spent time in New Orleans and New York City. I returned to school and received my Masters Degree in 1996 from the Boston Conservatory. Along the way I've had the good fortune to travel around the globe and play with some great musicians like Mike Clark and the Headhunters, Charles Haynes, Aaron Goldberg, Matt Garrison, Robert Randolph, Brian Blade, Steve Hass, Jorge Rossy, Erik Jekebson, Will Boulware, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Dr. John, Scott Kinsey, Vinx, Kai Eckhardt, Bruce Flowers, Mino Cinelu, Susan Tedeschi, Steve Houghton, George Garzone, Dow Brain, Kei Akagi, Tiger's Baku, Greg Tardy, Antonio Sanchez, Steve Hunt, Bob Moses, and many others. I taught college for a couple of years in Massachusetts but recently my wife Kristin and I have returned to living on the West Coast and now live in the Bay Area where we enjoy it very much.
My debut CD with Steve Hunt called "Blown Fuse" has become a "post-fusion classic" of sorts and has recieved some great reviews from some really special musicians. Be sure to pick up a copy while you're here!
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