About Me
Big Nate Holleman is an up and coming innovator on the bass guitar, as well as a talented composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. His musical root stemmed from a gospel up-bring, giving him a soulful, and spiritual aggressive style of playing. Burning equally brightly inside of Big Nate is a more deeply "jazz" persona, manifesting itself in many projects. With his own band, Legacy, he is the principal songwriter and leader of a band steeped in a southern-feel, gospel-inflected, organic jazz, and soulful R&B. Big Nate was influenced by bass mentors, Victor Wooten, Oteil Burbridge, Anthony Jackson, Stanley Clarke, Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins, while learning about the music business at a wildly accelerated pace. While heavily influenced by those bass masters, his playing evolved from the bass players in his home town of Memphis Tennessee. Some of his home town heroes are Jackie Clark, Victor O’Bryant, Anthony Crawford, Brandon Brown, and a host of other Memphis cats. He himself has become a bass mentor, playing with various artists such as neo soul artist Indie Arie, guitar sensation Eric Gales, and gospel innovator Tonex. Just to name a few. Big Nate is now touring with the amazing blues artist and actor Steven Seagal. Certainly, I don't have to continue to make the case to anyone who has seen or heard him, that he is one of the most exciting players and soloists working today
