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I've been playing bass (Fretted & Fretless) since 1984. My origins lie in blues, blues rock, rock/pop, progressive rock and jazz/jazz rock.
My musical influences were Gary Thain (Uriah Heep), John Entwistle (The Who), Chris Squire (Yes), Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel), Dave Hope (Kansas), Pino Palladino (Paul Young), Jaco Pastorius (Weather Report). ), Stanley Clark (Curt Kress), Marcus Miller (Miles Davis) and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (various jazz formations).
I could go on and on with this list for a really long time, since new bass players, some of them style-defining, kept popping up on the musician horizon and catching my attention. But I think every musician feels that way.
Over the years I have been involved in many different projects, gained a lot of (band) experience and continuously developed myself further.
And yet I have always considered the whole as a maxim for myself. The unbelievably fast, virtuosic bass player was and is just as little my goal as the bass player who only accompanies the driving stomping beat (e.g. a-la AC/DC) of the drums.
It can be a bit more demanding, freer and more interesting.
My musical dream:
A small, fine trio or quartet.
I just call it the Fusion / World Music project
Diversity & inspiration - instead of - mainstream & commerce!
I'm a big fan of musical dialogues and passionate communication between the instruments.
Having fun and enjoying music, incorporating foreign rhythms and harmonies (e.g. from African and/or Asian music), inspiring one another and "talking" to one another (musically) are the main focus of the project.
Probably the best-known representatives of world music from the field of popular music are Peter Gabriel (Melt, Security, ...) and Paul Simon (Graceland).
In jazz, the influences were and are much greater.
The exchange, the connecting and the common - can there be anything (musically) more exciting?
Fun, joy and creativity are the focus here - not (rapid) commercial success!
And yet the whole thing should be operated seriously, committed and definitely goal-oriented.
The goal:
To take the stage and the audience on this (world) journey!
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