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WINNER - "Smatter" Best Funk Single of the Year LA Music Awards 2006
REVIEWS
"The interplay among Pickford and Hunt is quite simply amazing. The arrangements are really art in themselves. Pickford's many fluid solo explorations are extraordinary, and his highly advanced soloing prowess is something to be revered. Steve Hunt's keyboard sounds are masterfully textured and incredibly lush sounding. If this is the future of fusion, then the fusion genre is in good hands"
-C.Engel Bassicaly.net
"You are a terrific bass player Lucas and I was happy to recommend you to Mike Clark. You are THE perfect cat for the Headhunters gig man!"
-Lonnie Plaxico (Bassist w/ Joe Lavano, Jack DeJohnnette).
" The bass groove you put down to my drum part sounded FUNKY. For real. Nice Lucas!"
-Mike Clark (Funk drum legend with Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters).
"Lucas, Blown Fuse is an absolute killer!"
-Pat Martino (Jazz guitar legend).
"Lucas, thank you for Blown Fuse! There's some great bass
playing on there! Congratulations. It was a real pleasure to hear you play."
-John McLaughlin (Legendary guitarist w/Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Shakti).
"Beautifully complex yet soulful music from one of best bass players around."
-Matthew Garrison (Bassist w/Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock).
" It's LP in da house!....Word! You sound really good Lucas! And I love Steve Hunt! He introduced me to Stanley Clarke. Let's get together and play again soon."
- Kai Eckhardt (Bassist w/ John McLaughlin, Garaj Mahal, Vital Information, Billy Cobham, Zakir Hussain)
"Sounding really good Lucas! Yeah, that tune 'Smatter' really has that old 70's era Herbie vibe going on. Nice playing! MM."
- MM (Marcus Miller - Bass legend, with Miles Davis, David Sandborn, Luthor Vandross, Eric Clapton and many more..)
"Lucas, I just listened to some of your tracks here on my space- KILLER!!! Really great stuff!"
- Oz Noy (Top New York Fusion guitarist)
"I got the CD...sounds killer. You're a bad man Lucas!"
-Jon Herrera (Bass Player Magazine)
"This CD (Blown Fuse) has some nice old school fusion
writing and the players are no joke! Lucas can play!
-David Dyson (Bassist with Meshell Ndegeocello, Pieces of a Dream)
"You are very well known here in the UK and I've known about you for a long time Lucas. You're an incredible musician and bass player and an absolute fountain of musical knowledge. I hope we get a chance to meet and play together sometime soon!."
- Laurence Cottle (Top UK Bassist w/ Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck)
I did the Berklee thing graduating in 1991, then entered the real world and took all kinds of gig that took me around the globe a few times. Spent some time in NYC and even lived in New Orleans for a year copping the second line funk type grooves ala the Meters and George Porter. Had a quarter life crisis after spending Thanksgiving in Düsseldorf Germany and ended up going back to Boston and got my Masters Degree at the Conservatory in '96. I've been a working pro for over 20 years playing bass. I've played with some great musicians like Charles Haynes, Robert Walter, Aaron Goldberg, Matt Garrison, Mike Clark and the Headhunters, Brian Jordan, Donald Harrison, Brian Blade, Steve Hass, Jorge Rossy, Kai Eckhardt, Erik Jekebson, Dr. John, Scott Kinsey, Vinx, Steve Houghton, George Garzone, Dow Brain, Kei Akagi, Tiger's Baku, Greg Tardy, Antonio Sanchez, Steve Hunt, Bob Moses, and many others. Recorded what has become sort of a "post modern" jazz/fusion classic called "Blown Fuse" in collaboration with Steve Hunt. Check out some tracks while you are here.
I've been a college professor, had over a hundred private students, and I've traveled the world playing. I'm in the Bay Area of CA, my home state, now and digging it. I have my sites set on making another CD and then a live DVD. It will have killing players on it and should be pretty bad ass. Watch for it sometime in '08 if all goes well. If not then I'll get it out in 2009. As long as I get it out before 2012 when all hell is supposed to break loose.
For more information check out my website "Pick's Place" at http://www.lucaspickford.com. There you can pick up a copy of "Blown Fuse" or you can just go to http://www.cdbaby.com/pickford. Also, be sure to dig my father, Loren Pickford's CD's available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lorenpickford. My old man is one of THE BEST modern jazz alto sax players in the US. No lie! He's bad ass and he taught me most everything I know.
"Pick's Place" has one one the biggest transcription libraries on the Internet (all instruments) everyone from Jaco to Victor Wooten, McLaughlin to Scofield, Corea, Hancock, Brecker, Coltrane and many more all for FREE!! Go learn from the Masters. To hell w/ music school! Save your $$ . Dig!!
-Pick
