Hip Bones

Music:

Member Since: 29/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.hipbones.net
Band Members: Hip Bones Live at the Boom Boom Room "Scram"

Robin Tolleson - drums, percussion

Gary Schwantes - saxophones, bamboo flutes

and 2009 tour (West Coast) Jonathan Herrera on psychedelic funk bass; (East Coast) Shannon Hoover on jazz groove bass. Special guest on 2009 Southeast dates, Steve Davidowski on woodwinds and keyboards.You could also hear Ingo York -- punk fusion bass and loops; Dan Andrews -- greasy soul bass and loops; Dustin Hofsess -- slap funk bass and loops; Jake Wolf -- juggernaut bass and loops; Doug Ebert -- upright trance bass; Grant Cuthbertson -- deep pocket bass; Andy John -- abstract groosion bass.
Sounds Like: Audiences at San Francisco's Boom Boom Room, Charleston's Pour House, Soho in Santa Barbara and Twins Jazz in Washington DC are wise to this brew of instrumental funk with jazz overtones and dub attitude.

"A unique sounding instrumental trio (sax/bamboo flutes-bass-drums) with a heavy-grooving jazz-funk-dub sound."

"San Francisco-based jazz-funk trio Hipbones puts its, um, hip twist on Miles Davis and Charlie Parker standards, and ably reinterprets songs by Sting and Cream with funky chops. Hipbones' originals are just as feisty. Even diehard traditionalists will have to take notes when the band performs at the Evening Muse in Charlotte"
Record Label: Groosion
Type of Label: Indie