John Webber (musician)

John Webber (* 1965 in St. Louis ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass ).

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Webber spent his youth in Wheaton, Illinois ; During this time he played the electric bass before he also learned the double bass when he was fifteen. He did gigs in Chicago while in high school . After college at Northern Illinois University , he moved to Roosevelt University . During this time he worked with Von Freeman and performed in the Club Jazz Showcase with jazz greats such as Tommy Flanagan , Eddie Harris , James Moody and Ira Sullivan .

In 1987 Webber moved to New York and first played with Bill Hardman and Junior Cook ( You Leave Me Breathless ), in the late 1980s in the band of John Marshall and Tardo Hammer , with which the first recordings were made ( Bopera House , VSOP Records, 1988 ). In the following years he worked with Rich Willey , Eric Alexander , Peter Bernstein , Rob Mazurek , Michael Weiss , Jim Rotondi , Jimmy Cobb , Ryan Kisor , Ernie Andrews , Hank Jones ; He also took part in sessions at the Smoke jazz club with George Coleman , Jerry Weldon , Harold Mabern and Joe Farnsworth (2008) and accompanied vocalists Etta Jones and LaVerne Butler on recordings.

Webber recorded the album Down for the Count under his own name in 2014 , on which George Coleman, Harold Mabern, Nat Reeves and Joe Farnsworth contributed. In the field of jazz he was involved in 133 recording sessions between 1988 and 2015, including a. also with Joey DeFrancesco , Von Freeman , Wycliffe Gordon , David Hazeltine , Mike LeDonne , Junior Mance , Cecil Payne , Horace Silver , Joe Temperley , Dan Nimmer and Mihoko Uemura .

personal data
SURNAME	Webber, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH	1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Louis