Dave King (bassist)
Dave King (* 7. September 1953 in Lexington , Kentucky ) is an American jazz - and rock - bass player , composer and producer .
Live and act
King, the son of the hero tenor James King , began taking jazz guitar lessons from the age of twelve. Then he switched to the double bass and took lessons from Jamey Aebersold . In 1970 he moved to Germany, made his first recordings with Embryo a year later and played as a studio musician for Klaus Doldinger , Niagara , Giorgio Moroder and Peter Thomas, among others . He later worked with Udo Lindenberg , for whom he also worked as a co-producer between 1975 and 1987, as well as for Peter Maffay and for Billy Cobham (1975). Dave King was both the predecessor (1975 to 1977) and successor (1986 to 1999) of Eberhard Weber as bassist of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and has been a member of the second generation since 2012 . From 1976 to 1987 he was a member of Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass. He was also known as part of Curt Cress' band Snowball and toured with Chaka Khan . Charlie Mariano increased his interest in world music projects, which he then continued with Hakim Ludin . Since 1991 he has been a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim .
Trivia
The music track Love to love you, Baby by Donna Summer and producer Giorgio Moroder (1976 No. 2 on the US charts / Billboard Hot 100) led to a legal battle between King and Moroder, who used the title without stating King as co-composer had published. Although King was able to make believable that the bass line character in Love to Love You, Baby, was his invention, not the Moroders, and that it was only as a formative element that helped the music track to global success, he lost the legal battle.
Discographic notes
- Embryo : Rocksession - 1973
- Eberhard Schoener : Bali Agung - 1976
- Toto Blanke : Electric Circus - 1976
- Udo Lindenberg : Udopia - 1981
- (with Anita Davis , Patrick Gammon , Frank Kuruc , Hubert Nuss :) Wildcat - 1996
- Charlie Mariano : Nassim - 1998
- Embryo: 40 - 2010
Web links
- Works by Dave King in the catalog of the German National Library
- Web presence with world music blog
- Dave King at the Mannheim University of Music
- Interview in Guitar & Bass 12/97 ( Memento from August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Dave King at Discogs (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | King, Dave |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and rock bass guitarist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lexington , Kentucky |