Hi from Wide Open Ears

 

I'm an electric bassist, amongst other things.  I love good music, no matter what the genre, though I listen mainly to music that has a strong improv component, and I favor instrumental music.  Love world music, too.  

 

My all-time favorite band is Weather Report, all periods.  My favorite musician of all time is John Coltrane, without a doubt.  I love Miles, Holdsworth, McLaughlin, Jaco.....Monk, Parker, Mingus......tons and tons of artists, in fact.  I don't listen to much Country or folk, or straight blues (though once in a while I spin something....) and not much in the way of Indie or the current Flavor of the Pop Month.  But I don't actively avoid much of it.

 

I've been listening to, and playing, jazz and jazz-related music since age 13, back in......1979.  I even had a 9 month period of Jazz Snobbism, complete with Upright-Only Attitude, in my early 20's.

 

There ya go.  Howdy!