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JEFFERSON

Many thanks to Steve Bailey for finger Yoga!!!

About Me

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My Interests

I am interested in the BASS. Living well, sharing what I learn and contributing to the world as a human and a bass player. Arranging music. I enjoy composing music for strings and horns and woodwinds as a hobby.

I'd like to meet:

Nelson Mandella. Tony Levin. Peter Gabriel. Steve Bailey. Jeff Berlin. A great music teacher. A Chapman Stick. A banker dedicated in bronze by the townspeople. A four string fretless bass with growl. All of my friends in the same room... and the people I haven't met yet who belong there. Elbow at their local bar. Bassists from all over the world. Nicole Kidman.

Music:

BEND. ELBOW. Bill Frisell. Peter Gabriel. King Crimson, The Crusaders, and Clifford Brown. The Beatles, Tom Petty, J.J. Johnson. Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Erroll Garner and Bill Evans. Dave Grohl and Joni Mitchell. Related? XTC. I like "Teaser and the Firecat". Elvis Costello. ROCKPILE. The WHO. The Police. Radiohead, BLUR, and especially DOVES. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Fela Kuti. Steve Bailey. Jeff Berlin.

Movies:


Create Your Own!

Television:

BASSMASTERS.

Books:

BEYOND THE BASS CLEF, by Tony Levin. PHILIP K. DICK, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; Louisa May Alcott, Little Women; the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva; the poetry of Anna Akhmatova; Feynman and Weinberg's Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics; Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles; Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States; Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy; Nelson Riddle's Arranged by Nelson Riddle; so many more to come...

Heroes:

Isabella. My Grandfather, Gordon. My Grandmother, Jane. Aunt Dode. Tony Levin. Chad Beeler and Evan Sheeley and Timm Shere and Jeremy Schwam at BASS NORTHWEST. Bill Frisell. 'Marker' Meyer. Peter Gabriel. Jaco. Chuck Rainey. Duke Ellington. Errol Garner. Rocky Balboa. Dave Carter. Mark Oesterle. Manderson. Tim Young. Mike Stone. Geoff Harper. Jane Lambert. Hadley Caliman. HELDEN. To all the silent heroes who belong here. To all the heroes I have not yet met.

My Blog

YOUR THOUGHTS?

"We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum."...
Posted by JEFFERSON on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:07:00 PST

MUSIC NERDS UNITE!

C, E-flat, and G go into a bar.The bartender says, "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So, the E-flatleaves, and the C and the G have an open fifth between them.After a few drinks, the fifth is dimini...
Posted by JEFFERSON on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:14:00 PST