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IVAN "FUNKBOY" BODLEY is bass player and musical director to the stars. He has performed with 23 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and counting. He has traveled to 26 countries around the world so far playing to audiences of up to 30,000 in situations ranging from jazz duos to 150-member symphony orchestras.
He is currently musical director with Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave), Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Shirelles, The Crystals, The Tokens and has performed with artists like Sting, Travis Tritt, The Uptown Horns, Peter Wolf, Solomon Burke, Bo Diddley, Gloria Gaynor, Buster Poindexter, Percy Sledge, and Rufus and Carla Thomas, to name but a few. He is also a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music.
The release of iBOD" marks Ivan's recorded debut as a solo artist. Standing behind so many legends of soul, funk, jazz, R&B, and rock and roll for over 20 years has apparently given him many ideas! On this CD he combines jazz and funk, rhythm and harmony, blues and soul, with just a little commentary on the human condition thrown in for good measure. And who doesnt like a little chank-a-chank with their Thelonius Monk?
Back in the swing era, jazz was the dance music of its day. Funkboy updates the genre by encouraging a little booty movement along with the complex harmonies and soaring melodies. On iBOD He even takes two traditional songs, one a Native American lullaby, another an Jewish folk tune, and reharmonizes them in a jazz style over funk grooves. The results are guaranteed to be unlike anything currently in rotation on your MP3 player.
Ivan produced, arranged and recorded this project in the Funklab, his studio in Brooklyn, NY. He is joined on the disc by a few of NYCs top players: Gil Parris-guitar phenom, Ben Stivers-keyboard genius, and Ronny Drayton-guitar wunderkind. All other sounds on the CD are generated by the Funkboy on four and five-string basses, piccolo bass (which is voiced similar to electric guitar), percussion, programming and voice.
At the core of iBOD is the emotional instrumental voice of a world-class seasoned professional musician, a sideman to the musical elite, finally stepping out on his own. Plug in your headphones and download at will....
More information is available at: www.funkboy.net ! Email: [email protected]
Ivan Funkboy Bodley uses Warrior Basses, Hartke Amplification, Dean Markley Strings, and Digitech and Line 6 signal processors.
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Member Since: 10/17/2005
Band Website: funkboy.net
Band Members: Ivan “Funkboy” Bodley—4 & 5-String, Fretted, Fretless, & Piccolo Basses, Voice, Percussion, Drum Programming; Gil Parris—Guitar Solos; Ben Stivers—Keyboards; Ronny Drayton—Rhythm Guitar
Influences: Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, James Jamerson, Duck Dunn, Bootsy Collins, George Porter Jr., Rocco Prestia, Chuck Rainey.....
Sounds Like: Maybe nothing you've ever heard, but also kinda like: electric Miles Davis, John Scofield, Brecker Brothers, maybe a little Jaco, Steps Ahead, electric Herbie Hancock, Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers, JBs, etc.

And now, some TESTIMONIALS from some of my EMPLOYERS:

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MS. MARTHA REEVES, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Motown Royalty.

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MS. SHIRLEY ALSTON REEVES, original lead singer of the world-famous Shirelles, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.

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DR. JAY SIEGEL, original lead singer of The Tokens and amazing falsetto on "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." Also producer for The Tokens, The Chiffons, The Happenings, Tony Orlando & Dawn, etc...

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MS. DEE DEE KENNIEBREW, original singer with The Crystals ("Da Doo Ron Ron").

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CRISPIN CIOE of the UPTOWN HORNS

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Jon "BOWZER" Bauman from Sha-Na-Na

Me onstage with Richard Street of the Temptations (1971-1995), Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy winner, playing his hit "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," the bass heavy mix!

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

Me with Ms. MARTHA REEVES, live in Italy, taken by a fan. The camera never pans over to me to prove it. But TRUST me, I'm playing and conducting the band. And I get to take the great JAMES JAMERSON bass break in the middle of the song....

Playing and conducting with UK Soul Sensation, Ola Onabule.

Led Zeppelin aftershow party O2 Arena, London. I'm playing, singing and conducting the band with the incredible Sam Moore and the great Paul Rodgers (of Bad Company). The band is Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. Posted by a fan on Youtube.

Charlie Rose Show with Sam Moore and Sting. That's me playing bass and conducting. Posted by Charlie Rose on Youtube

Record Label: Funkboy Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Bo Diddley

Wow, what can you say about a true pioneer of rock and roll that hasn't been said already?  Bo got recognition in his lifetime, even if he didn't get the commensurate amount of money for it: Rock...
Posted by ivan funkboy bodley on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:03:00 PST

Bass Player Magazine interview

Bass Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 3, March 2007   BASS NOTES News  Views  Faces  Places   IVAN BODLEY On Building Intimacy With The Music Sam Moore, Martha & The Vandellas &n...
Posted by ivan funkboy bodley on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:27:00 PST

Bass Guitar Magazine interview

Guitar World's BASS GUITAR Magazine March 2007   Intermission   Ivan "Funkboy" Bodley talks to Mike Visceglia about playing with the legends of soul, the value of hard work, and his psych ...
Posted by ivan funkboy bodley on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:23:00 PST

new Cracked Ice CD out!

I'm so very proud to have been included in this project.  Check it out at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/crackediceband    
Posted by ivan funkboy bodley on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:56:00 PST