Fima Ephron

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Fima Ephron (* in London ) is an American jazz bassist.

Ephron came to New York with his parents when he was three years old . He lived in Seattle for several years and attended New York Music and Art High School from the age of thirteen . He then worked with musicians like Cissy Houston and Jaki Byard , performed with various Latin bands and worked on fusion projects such as Current Events .

He became known in 1989 as a member of the band Lost Tribe , with whom he recorded several albums in the 1990s. In 1998 he took part in the Klezmer Festival in the Knitting Factory , and a live album was released the following year. Between 1995 and 2005 he was a member of the jazz fusion band Screaming Headless Torsos . With their front man David Fiuczynski he also played on his album Lunar Crush (together with John Medeski ) and with the klezmer avant-garde jazz band Hasidic New Wave .

In 2001 Ephron took the album Soul Machine as band leader (with Dave Binney , saxophone, Jim Black , drums, Mike Ephron and Buba Gisa Majerowitz , vocals, Adam Rogers , Edward Simon , keyboards, David Torn , oud and vocals, Greg Wall , clarinet) on. Here he combines the harmonies of Jewish music with jazz fusion music in the style of Weather Report .

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SURNAME Ephron, company
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH London