Beau Sample

Beau Sample is a Chicago based upright and electric bassist. He was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Beau recently moved to Chicago from Austin, Texas where he performed and recorded for 3 years and attended Texas State University (Jazz and Orchestral studies.) He played in Austin as a member of Elana James and the Continental Two, The T Jared Bonta Trio, The Dave Biller Combo, The David Chenu Quintet, the Seth Walker Band, ECFA, Whit Smith's Hot Jazz Caravan and, his own group, Beau Sample and the Impressment Gang.He now plays in Chicago with Joel Paterson and The Modern Sounds, The Del Moroccos, and part time with Devil in a Woodpile and Alfonso Ponticelli.Sample has toured the world and the U.S. many times over with with his former band, Cave Catt Sammy and with Elana James. His travels have taken him to Canada, Norway, Spain, England, Holland, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Azerbaijan, Armenia and The Republic the Georgia, not to mention everywhere in the U.S. He also toured the U.S. with Elana James (Bob Dylans former fiddle player) opening for Dylan in 2006. Beau has recorded with such artists as; Carl Sonny Leyland, The Hot Club of Cowtown, Cave Catt Sammy, Little Rachel, Sunshone Still, Luke Hill, T Jared Bonta, George Carver, Johnny Gimble, Dave Biller, Elana James, Paris 49, The David Chenu Quintet, ECFA, Torch, Joel Paterson, Eddie Clendening, Aubrey Slackey, Joel Paterson, The Del Moraccos, The Modern Sounds and Janis Martin.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)