Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American

avant-garde jazz Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz and experimental jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. Ori ...

saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the

alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian ( Latin: ''altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In 4-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruse ...

and

baritone A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the ...

saxophones.

Biography

Berne was born in

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, United States. He has said that he had no interest in playing an instrument until he attended

Lewis & Clark College Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Originally chartered in 1867 as the Albany Collegiate Institute in Albany, Oregon, the college was relocated to Portland in 1938 and in 1942 adopted the name Lewis & C ...

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. Hearing the album '' Dogon A.D.'' (1972) by

Julius Hemphill Julius Arthur Hemphill (January 24, 1938 – April 2, 1995) was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone, less often on soprano and tenor saxophones and flute. Biography Hemphill was born in Fort Worth, Texas, ...

turned his attention toward jazz. He was a fan of rhythm and blues, and it seemed to him that Hemphill was playing jazz with the soulfulness of R&B. In 1974, he went to New York to find Hemphill, who gave him saxophone lessons and advice on how to manage his career. Berne started the record label Empire in 1979. For Empire, he recorded four albums with avant-garde jazz musicians such as John Carter,

Alex Cline Alex Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American jazz drummer. Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Cline began playing drums with his twin brother, guitarist Nels Cline, at the age of 11. Their first band was called Homogenized Goo and in ...

Nels Cline Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been the guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004. In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex, a percussionist. He has w ...

Olu Dara Olu Dara Jones (born Charles Jones III, January 12, 1941) is an American cornetist, guitarist, and singer. He is the father of rapper Nas. Early life Olu Dara was born Charles Jones III on January 12, 1941 in Natchez, Mississippi. His mother, E ...

Vinny Golia Vinny Golia (born March 1, 1946) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation. Career As a composer, Golia fuse ...

Paul Motian Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. He first came to prominence in the ...

, and Ed Schuller. His next two albums appeared on

Soul Note Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels. Since their conception in the 1970s, they have released albums from a variety of influential jazz musicians, particularly in the genre of free jazz. History Black S ...

in the early 1980s. In these sessions he worked with trumpeter Herb Robertson. He then got a contract with

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and recorded with Robertson,

Hank Roberts Hank Roberts (born March 24, 1954, Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American jazz cellist and vocalist. He plays the electric cello, and his style is a mixture of rock, jazz, avant-garde, folk, and classical influences. He emerged with the downtown N ...

, and

Bill Frisell William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts ...

. After two albums, he signed with JMT, a label known for avant-garde jazz. In the 1990s, he recorded in the trio, Miniature, with Roberts and

Joey Baron Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer who plays frequently with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Music career Baron was born on June 26, 1955, in Richmond Virginia. When he was nine, ...

, and in the band Caos Totale with Django Bates,

Mark Dresser Mark Dresser (born September 26, 1952) is an American double bass player and composer. Career Dresser was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. In the 1970s, he was a member of Black Music Infinity led by Stanley Crouch and performed ...

, Marc Ducret,

Steve Swell Steve Swell (born in Newark, New Jersey, December 6, 1954) is an American free jazz trombonist, composer, and educator. Music career Swell studied at Jersey City State Teachers College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his m ...

, and

Bobby Previte Bobby Previte (born July 16, 1951 in Niagara Falls, New York) is a drummer, composer, and bandleader. He earned a degree in economics from the University at Buffalo, where he also studied percussion. He moved to New York City in 1979 and began ...

. He led a trio with

Michael Formanek Michael Formanek (born May 7, 1958) is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California, United States, and associated with the jazz scene in New York. Career In the 1980s, Formanek worked as a sideman with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Hender ...

and

Jim Black Jim Black is an American jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas. He attended Berklee College of Music. Career His band AlasNoAxis includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar, Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clari ...

, then added

Chris Speed Chris Speed (born February 12, 1967) is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. Early life and career Speed grew up outside of Seattle and studied classical piano and clarinet from an early age. He later began studying jazz, took up ...

for a quartet.

PolyGram PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a ...

bought JMT and closed it. This motivated Berne to start Screwgun Records as the outlet for his albums. He is one-third of the group BBC (Berne/Black/Cline) with Jim Black and Nels Cline of

Wilco Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup changed frequently d ...

. The group released a critically acclaimed album called ''The Veil'' in 2011.

Groups

* Miniature (Joey Baron, Hank Roberts) * Caos Totale (Django Bates, Mark Dresser, Marc Ducret, Bobby Previte, Herb Robertson, Steve Swell) * Bloodcount (Jim Black, Marc Ducret, Michael Formanek, Chris Speed) *

Big Satan Big Satan is a musical project headed by composer and alto saxophonist Tim Berne, featuring drummer Tom Rainey and electric guitarist Marc Ducret. Rainey and Ducret are regular Berne collaborators, and both contribute compositions as well. His ...

(Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey) * Hard Cell (Tom Rainey,

Craig Taborn Craig Marvin Taborn (; born February 20, 1970) is an American pianist, organist, keyboardist and composer. He works solo and in bands, mostly playing various forms of jazz. He started playing piano and Moog synthesizer as an adolescent and was i ...

) * Science Friction (Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey, Craig Taborn) * Paraphrase ( Drew Gress, Tom Rainey) * Buffalo Collision ( Ethan Iverson, David King, Hank Roberts) * BBC Trio (Jim Black, Nels Cline) * Snakeoil (Marc Ducret, Matt Mitchell, Oscar Noriega,

Ches Smith Gordon McChesney "Ches" Smith is an American musician, whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He recorded and performed an album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled ''Congs for Brums'' (2006). In 2010 he release ...

, formerly Ryan Ferreira) * Broken Shadows (

Reid Anderson Reid Anderson (born 15 October 1970) is a bassist and composer from Minnesota. He is a member of The Bad Plus with drummer Dave King, saxophonist Chris Speed, and guitarist Ben Monder. The original lineup of The Bad Plus first played together ...

, David King, Chris Speed)

Discography

As leader/co-leader

* 1979 ''The Five Year Plan'' (Empire) * 1980 ''7X'' (Empire) * 1981 ''Spectres'' (Empire) * 1982 '' Songs and Rituals in Real Time'' (Empire) * 1983 ''

The Ancestors ''The Ancestors'' is an album by Tim Berne and which was released on the Italian-based Soul Note label in 1983. It features three lengthy tracks which, typical of Berne, are structured in suite-like sections. The music is performed by the Tim Be ...

'' (

) * 1984 ''Mutant Variations'' (Soul Note) * 1987 ''Fulton Street Maul'' (

) * 1988 ''Sanctified Dreams'' (Columbia) * 1989 '' Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales'' ( JMT) * 1993 '' Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill)'' (JMT) * 1999 ''The Empire Box'' (Screwgun) CD box set reissue of ''The Five Year Plan'', ''7X'', ''Spectres'', and ''Songs and Rituals in Real Time'' * 2011 ''Insomnia'' ( Clean Feed) * 2020 ''Sacred Vowels'' (Screwgun) * 2020 ''Adobe Probe'' (Screwgun) * 2022 ''Decay'' (Screwgun)

with
Bill Frisell William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts ...

* 1985 '' Theoretically'' (Empire)

with Miniature

* 1988 ''

Miniature A miniature is a small-scale reproduction, or a small version. It may refer to: * Portrait miniature, a miniature portrait painting * Miniature art, miniature painting, engraving and sculpture * Miniature (chess), a masterful chess game or proble ...

'' (JMT) * 1991 '' I Can't Put My Finger on It'' (JMT)

with Caos Totale

* 1990 '' Pace Yourself'' (JMT) * 1994 '' Nice View'' (JMT)

with
Michael Formanek Michael Formanek (born May 7, 1958) is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California, United States, and associated with the jazz scene in New York. Career In the 1980s, Formanek worked as a sideman with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Hender ...
and Jeff Hirshfield

* 1993 ''Loose Cannon'' (Soul Note)

with Marilyn Crispell

* 1995 ''

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'' (

Music & Arts Music & Arts is a classical and jazz record label founded in Berkeley, California by Frederick Maroth. It began in 1984 as a classical music label before adding jazz and world music. The catalog includes classical composers and musicians Milton ...

)

with Michael Formanek

* 1998 ''Ornery People'' (Little Brother)

with Hank Roberts

* 1998 ''Cause & Reflect'' (Level Green)

with Bloodcount

* 1995 '' Lowlife: The Paris Concert'' (JMT) * 1995 '' Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert'' (JMT) * 1995 '' Memory Select: The Paris Concert'' (JMT) * 1996 ''

Unwound Unwound is an American post-hardcore band. The band was formed in 1988 in Tumwater and Olympia, Washington by vocalist/guitartist Justin Trosper, bassist Vern Rumsey and drummer Brandt Sandeno, and was largely based in Olympia throughout the 1 ...

'' ( Screwgun) * 1997 ''

Discretion Discretion has the meaning of acting on one's own authority and judgment. In law, discretion as to legal rulings, such as whether evidence is excluded at a trial, may be exercised by a judge. Some view discretion negatively, while some view it ...

'' (Screwgun) * 1997 '' Saturation Point'' (Screwgun) * 2007 ''

Seconds The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each ...

'' (Screwgun) * 2021 ''Attention Spam'' (Screwgun) * 2021 ''5'' (Screwgun)

with Paraphrase

* 1997 ''

Visitation Rites ''Visitation Rites'' is a live album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Paraphrase which was recorded in Germany in 1996 and released on Berne's Screwgun Screwgun Records is a jazz record label founded by saxophonist Tim Berne in 1996. Most releases on ...

'' (Screwgun) * 1999 ''

Please Advise ''Please Advise'' is a live album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Paraphrase which was recorded in Germany in 1998 and released on Berne's Screwgun Screwgun Records is a jazz record label founded by saxophonist Tim Berne in 1996. Most releases on th ...

'' (Screwgun) * 2005 ''

Pre-Emptive Denial ''Pre-Emptive Denial'' is a live album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Paraphrase which was recorded at The Stone in 2005 and released on Berne's Screwgun Screwgun Records is a jazz record label founded by saxophonist Tim Berne in 1996. Most releas ...

'' (Screwgun)

with Big Satan

* 1997 ''

'' (

Winter & Winter Winter & Winter is a record label in Munich, Germany that specializes in jazz, classical and improvised music. It was founded by Stefan Winter following the demise of his JMT Records label. Since 1997 Winter & Winter has released records by ...

) * 2004 '' Souls Saved Hear'' (Thirsty Ear) * 2006 ''

Livein Cognito ''Livein Cognito'' is a double live album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Big Satan. It was released in 2006 on Berne's Screwgun label. Reception An All About Jazz review by John Kelman said "Dark and spacious in places, visceral, dense and penetra ...

'' (Screwgun)

with Hardcell

* 2001 '' The Shell Game'' (

Thirsty Ear Thirsty Ear Recordings is an American independent record label. It was founded in the late 1970s as a marketing company for the then-unnamed alternative music field, and expanded to issue its own records in 1990. Thirsty Ear came to prominence ...

) * 2004 ''

Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live ''Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live'' is a live album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Hard Cell which was recorded in 2005 and released on Berne's Screwgun label.Feign Deception or falsehood is an act or statement that misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage. Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda and sleight ...

'' (Screwgun) * 2020 ''The Cosmos'' (Screwgun) * 2021 ''Sensitive'' (Screwgun)

with Herb Robertson, Marc Ducret and the Copenhagen Art Ensemble

* 2001 ''

Open, Coma ''Open, Coma'' is a double album by saxophonist Tim Berne and the Copenhagen Art Ensemble with Herb Robertson and Marc Ducret which was recorded in 2000 in Denmark and Sweden and released on Berne's Screwgun label. Reception The AllMusic re ...

'' (Screwgun)

with Science Friction

* 2002 '' Science Friction'' (Screwgun) * 2003 ''

The Sublime And ''The Sublime And'' is a live double album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Science Friction which was recorded in Switzerland in 2003 and originally released on the Thirsty Ear label. The album was rereleased in 2007 along with Berne's 2002 Science F ...

'' (Thirsty Ear) * 2007 ''Mind Over Friction'' (Screwgun) Box set reissue of ''Science Friction'' and ''The Sublime And'' * 2020 ''Science Friction +size'' (Screwgun)

with ARTE Quartet

* 2002 ''The Sevens'' (

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)

with Buffalo Collision

* 2008 ''Duck'' (Screwgun)

with BB&C

* 2011 '' The Veil'' ( Cryptogramophone)

with Bruno Chevillon

* 2011 ''Old and Unwise'' (Clean Feed)

with Snakeoil

* 2012 '' Snakeoil'' (

ECM ECM may refer to: Economics and commerce * Engineering change management * Equity capital markets * Error correction model, an econometric model * European Common Market Mathematics * Elliptic curve method * European Congress of Mathemat ...

) * 2013 '' Shadow Man'' (ECM) * 2015 '' You've Been Watching Me'' (ECM) * 2015 ''Spare'' (Screwgun) * 2017 '' Incidentals'' (ECM) * 2020 ''The Fantastic Mrs. 10'' ( Intakt) * 2020 ''The Deceptive 4'' (Intakt)

with Matt Mitchell

* 2018 ''Angel Dusk'' (Screwgun) * 2020 ''1'' (Screwgun) * 2020 ''Spiders'' (Out of Your Head) * 2022 ''One More, Please'' (Intakt)

with Broken Shadows

* 2019 ''Broken Shadows'' (Newvelle, vinyl only; re-released on CD and digital with two additional tracks in 2021 on Intakt) * 2020 ''Broken Shadows Live'' (Screwgun)

with
Nasheet Waits Nasheet Waits is an American jazz drummer. Son of percussionist Freddie Waits, Nasheet Waits is a New York native who has been active on the jazz scene since early in his life. Before pursuing a music career, he studied psychology and history a ...

* 2020 ''The Coandă Effect'' (Relative Pitch) * 2022 ''Tangled'' (Screwgun)

with Gregg Belisle-Chi

* 2022 ''Mars'' (Intakt) * 2022 ''Zone One'' (Screwgun)

As sideman

With Ray Anderson *''

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, 1994) With Enten Eller *''Melquiades'' (Splasc(H), 1999) *''Auto da Fe'' (Splasc(H), 2001) With

Umberto Petrin Umberto Petrin (born 1960) is an Italian jazz pianist, composer and poet. He devoted himself to the study of the piano at the age of 12. After studying Chemistry, he graduated in Piano at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where he is now P ...

*''Ellessi'' (Splasc(H), 1999) With Jazzophone Compagnie *''Mosaiques'' (Yolk, 2000) With

*''

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'' ( Enja, 1988) With Marc Ducret *''Tower Vol. 2'' (Ayler, 2011) *''Tower Bridge'' (Ayler, 2014) With Mr. Rencore *''Intollerant'' (Auand, 2011) With Simon Fell *''Positions & Descriptions'' (Clean Feed, 2011) With Figure 8 *''Pipe Dreams'' ( Black Saint, 1994) With

*''Extended Animation'' (Enja, 1992) *''Low Profile'' (Enja, 1994) *''Nature of the Beast'' (Enja, 1997) *''The Rub and Spare Change'' (ECM, 2010) *''Small Places'' (ECM, 2012) *''The Distance'' (ECM, 2016) *''Even Better'' (Intakt, 2019) *''Pre-Apocalyptic'' (Out Of Your Head, 2020) With

*''Compositions for Large Ensemble'' (

Nine Winds Nine Winds is an American jazz record label that was founded in 1977 by Vinny Golia. Golia is a self-taught musician who plays over fifty woodwind instruments, in addition to brass. In the early 1970s, he believed it was impossible for musicians ...

, 1984) *''Facts of Their Own Lives'' (Nine Winds, 1986) With Drew Gress *''Spin & Drift'' (Premonition, 2001) *''7 Black Butterflies'' (Premonition, 2005) *''The Irrational Numbers'' (Premonition, 2007) *''The Sky Inside'' (Pirouet, 2013) With Mark Helias *''Split Image'' (Enja, 1985) *''The Current Set'' (Enja, 1986) With

*'' Five Chord Stud'' (Black Saint, 1994) *'' One Atmosphere'' (

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, 2003) With

Ingrid Laubrock Ingrid Laubrock (born 24 September 1970) is a German jazz saxophonist, who primarily plays tenor saxophone but also performs and records on soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones. She studied with Jean Toussaint, Dave Liebman and at the Guildh ...

*''

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'' (2015) With

Ivo Perelman Ivo Perelman (born January 12, 1961) is a Brazilian free jazz saxophonist born in São Paulo. Career In his youth, Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and piano, concentrating on tenor sax since age 19. He attended the Be ...

*''(D)ivo'' (2022) With

*'' Black Pastels'' (JMT, 1988) With Herb Robertson *'' Transparency'' (JMT, 1985) *'' X-Cerpts: Live at Willisau'' (JMT, 1987) *''Elaboration'' (Clean Feed, 2005) *''Real Aberration'' (Clean Feed, 2007) With Samo Salamon & Tom Rainey *''Duality'' (Samo Records, 2012) With

George Schuller George Schuller (born December 29, 1958) is an American jazz drummer. He is the son of composer Gunther Schuller. Biography Schuller was born in New York City and raised in Boston. In 1982 he graduated from the New England Conservatory of M ...

*''Hellbent'' (Playscape, 2002) With

*''Hammered'' (Clean Feed, 2013) *''International Hoohah'' (For Tune, 2014) With

Spring Heel Jack Spring Heel Jack is an English electronic music duo, consisting of John Coxon and Ashley Wales. Formed in 1993 in London, England, Spring Heel Jack began their career exploring drum and bass and jungle, but have since branched out into free ...

*''Masses'' (Thirsty Ear, 2001) With

David Torn David M. Torn (born May 26, 1953) is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is known for combining electronic and acoustic instruments and for his use of looping. Background Torn has contributed to recordings by artists as diverse ...

*''

Prezens ''Prezens'' is an album by guitarist David Torn recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM label.Yōsuke Yamashita is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer and writer. His piano style is influenced by free jazz, modal jazz and soul jazz. Since the late 1980s, Yamashita's main performing group has consisted of Cecil McBee (bass), Pheeroan akLaff (drums), and oft ...

*''Ways of Time'' (Verve, 1995) With

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of j ...

*''

The Big Gundown ''The Big Gundown'' ( it, La resa dei conti, lit=The Settling of Scores) is a 1966 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Sollima, and starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian. Plot Possessing a reputation for bringing criminals to justice, r ...

'' (Nonesuch/Icon, 1986) *''

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'' (Elektra/Musician, 1989)

References

External links

*
Official website, Screwgun Records

Interview at Ethan Iverson's site

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Biography

Groups

Discography

As leader/co-leader

with Bill Frisell William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts ...

with Miniature

with Caos Totale

with Michael Formanek Michael Formanek (born May 7, 1958) is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California, United States, and associated with the jazz scene in New York. Career In the 1980s, Formanek worked as a sideman with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Hender ... and Jeff Hirshfield

with Marilyn Crispell

with Michael Formanek

with Hank Roberts

with Bloodcount

with Paraphrase

with Big Satan

with Hardcell

with Herb Robertson, Marc Ducret and the Copenhagen Art Ensemble

with Science Friction

with ARTE Quartet

with Buffalo Collision

with BB&C

with Bruno Chevillon

with Snakeoil

with Matt Mitchell

with Broken Shadows

with Nasheet Waits Nasheet Waits is an American jazz drummer. Son of percussionist Freddie Waits, Nasheet Waits is a New York native who has been active on the jazz scene since early in his life. Before pursuing a music career, he studied psychology and history a ...

with Gregg Belisle-Chi

As sideman

References

External links

with
Bill Frisell William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts ...

with
Michael Formanek Michael Formanek (born May 7, 1958) is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California, United States, and associated with the jazz scene in New York. Career In the 1980s, Formanek worked as a sideman with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Hender ...
and Jeff Hirshfield

with
Nasheet Waits Nasheet Waits is an American jazz drummer. Son of percussionist Freddie Waits, Nasheet Waits is a New York native who has been active on the jazz scene since early in his life. Before pursuing a music career, he studied psychology and history a ...