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Hutch Hutchinson: The Groove King by Rick Suchow – Bass Musician Magazine May 2012 Issue / Cover Photo: Manny Alvarez With all the easiness of a tropical wind headed mainland, a relaxed Hutch Hutchinson prepares to depart Hawaii for Los Angeles for an upcoming week of rehearsals with Bonnie Raitt. From there it will be on [...]
Nik West By Rick Suchow – Bass Musician Magazine April 2012 Issue… Six words quickly come to mind in describing up-and-coming bassist Nik West: the girl’s got it goin’ on. The Phoenix funkstress has been quietly, or maybe not so quietly, creating a big buzz lately with her skillful bass chops and soulful voice. Not [...]
Tom Kennedy By Rick Suchow – Bass Musician Magazine March 2012 issue… It would be hard to overstate Tom Kennedy’s mastery of jazz bass, and surely anyone who has played with him– a list of luminaries that includes James Moody, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Brecker and dozens more– can attest to that fact. The [...]
Ethan Farmer by Andreas Farmakalidis – Bass Musician Magazine February 2012 Issue… Andreas Farmakalidis is Having, Wine and Strings, with Ethan Farmer aka ebassman… The idea of an instrumental album from one of LA’s A-list session musicians that is chock full of ‘lead’ bass and ‘backing’ bass might, at first, sound a bit daunting to [...]
Franck Hermanny, Featured Bassist in the January 2012 Issue of Bass Musician Magazine… Europe has always been known as the birthplace for many top-level contemporary bass guitarists and their upright brethren. From Dominic Di Piazza, Pino Paladino, Linley Marthe, Miroslav Vitous and countless others, the pedigree and quality of European bassists has always been among the hardest [...]
Revisiting the Joni Mitchell years, with new revelations from Peter Erskine “The first time you play, when you’re young and you realize that you’re actually playing, that you’re the one making it happen… to stay aware of that incredible energy and honesty, that’s what it’s about,” Jaco Pastorius once commented. “I take performing for granted, [...]
Let me start by using a quote on Edgar Meyer that I actually referred to in one of my questions in our interview. The New Yorker stated that Edgar “is the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his instrument.” This is quite a statement, but in this player’s opinion, the man walks [...]
Meet Nicole Fiorentino, who is the latest addition to the Grammy award winning band Smashing Pumpkins. Nicole is the fourth female bassist that joins this legendary band. D’Arcy, who was a member of the band since they formed in 1988, spent just over a decade with the band before departing in 1999. Auf der Maur [...]
Cheikh Ndoye broke on the scene not that long ago with his debut CD A Childs Tale. It featured a pretty amazing lineup including Russell Ferrente from the Yellowjackets and Dave Weckl and Eric Marienthall from the Chick Corea band just to name a few, and Cheikh most certainly held his own along with sporting some [...]
Bassist supreme and educator Steve Bailey has been one of the mainstays in the bass community for decades, and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down. He and his long time friend and cohort Victor Wooten have been taking their Bass/Nature camp to new heights on a regular basis, coordinating the camps unique instructional approaches [...]
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