Lonnie Plaxico

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Lonnie Plaxico

Lonnie Plaxico (born September 4, 1960 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American jazz bassist. His main instrument is the double bass , but he can also be heard on the electric bass . Günther Huesmann describes his playing as "incredibly flexible and powerful".

Life

Plaxico learned to play the bass by himself at the age of twelve and made his first professional appearances two years later. He studied with Von Freeman and went to New York City in 1980 , where he soon appeared with musicians such as Chet Baker , Dexter Gordon , Sonny Stitt , Junior Cook , Hank Jones and Wynton Marsalis . From 1983 to 1986 he was a member of Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers , with whom he appeared on twelve albums, including the Grammy- winning New York Scene .

He was one of the mid-1980s with the first generation of the M-Base -Kollektivs to Steve Coleman , in which he at first on the double bass limited, while about Coleman's Five Elements and Cassandra Wilson's recordings of this period Kevin Bruce Harris electric bass played . But Plaxico played on Coleman's debut album Motherland Pulse (1985), as well as on the first releases by Cassandra Wilson (Point of View, 1986) and Greg Osby ( Sound Theater , 1987), all of which were released on the Munich label JMT . Since then he has worked on many of Cassandra Wilson's albums and has been musical director and first bassist of their touring band for over 15 years.

In 1986 Jack DeJohnette reorganized his Special Edition and hired guitarist Mick Goodrick and M-Base saxophonists Greg Osby and Gary Thomas , as well as Lonnie Plaxico on acoustic and electric bass; by 1993 they recorded three albums. Plaxico has also worked with Dizzy Gillespie , Branford Marsalis , John Hicks , Woody Shaw , Clark Terry , Don Byron , Slide Hampton , Cecil Brooks III , David Murray , Alice Coltrane , Stanley Turrentine , Joe Sample , Bill Cosby , Lonnie Liston Smith , Ravi Coltrane , Abbey Lincoln , Rachelle Ferrell , Dianne Reeves and Barbara Dennerlein .

Discography

Under his own name

  • Plaxico. ( Muse , 1989)
  • Iridescence. (Muse, 1990)
  • Short takes. (Muse, 1992)
  • With all your heart. (Muse, 1993)
  • Emergence. (Savant, 2000)
  • Mélange. ( Blue Note , 2001)
  • Live at the 5:01 Jazz Bar. (Plaxmusic, 2002)
  • Rhythm and Soul. (Sirocco Jazz Limited, 2003)
  • Live at Jazz Standard (Village, Japan, 2004)
  • So Alive. (Eighty-Eight's, 2006)
  • West Side Stories. (Plaxmusic, 2006)
  • Live at the Zinc Bar NYC. (Plaxmusic, 2007)
  • Ancestral devotion. (Plaxmusic, 2009)

As a sideman

With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

  • Aurex Jazz Festival. (Eastworld, 1983)
  • New York Scene. ( Concord , 1984)
  • Blue night. (Timeless, 1985)
  • Live at Sweet Basil. (Paddle Wheel, 1985)
  • Live at Kimball's. (Concord, 1985)
  • Live at Ronnie Scott's. (Wadham, 1985)
  • Hard champion. (Paddle Wheel, 1985)
  • Farewell. (Paddle Wheel, 1985)
  • New Year's Eve at Sweet Basil. (King (Japan) / ProJazz, 1985)
  • Dr. Jeckyle - Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2 (ProJazz, 1985)

With Dizzy Gillespie

  • New faces. ( GRP , 1985)

With Steve Coleman

  • Motherland Pulse. ( JMT , 1985)
  • Five Elements - Sine Die. (Pangea, 1988)

With Cassandra Wilson

  • Point of View. (JMT, 1986)
  • Blue skies. (JMT, 1988)
  • Jumpworld. (JMT, 1990)
  • Blue Light 'Til Dawn. ( Blue Note , 1993), only on "Tupelo Honey"
  • New Moon Daughter. (Blue Note, 1995)
  • Date. (Blue Note, 1997), with Jacky Terrasson
  • Traveling Miles. (Blue Note, 1999)
  • Loverly. (Blue Note, 2008)

With Greg Osby

  • Greg Osby and Sound Theater. (JMT, 1987)
  • Season of Renewal. (JMT, 1989)
  • Zero. (Blue Note, 1998)

With Jack DeJohnette 's Special Edition

  • Irresistible Forces. ( Impulse! / MCA , 1987)
  • Audio visualscapes. (Impulse! / MCA, 1988)
  • Earth Walk. (Blue Note, 1991)

With Cindy Blackman

  • Code Red. (Muse, 1990)

With Ron Jackson

  • A Guitar Thing You. (Muse, 1991)
  • Thinking of you. (Muse, 1993)

With Cecil Brooks III

  • The Collective. (Muse, 1992)
  • Smokin 'jazz. (Muse, 1996)

With Don Byron

  • Tuskegee Experiments. ( Nonesuch , 1992)
  • Ivey-Divey. (Blue Note, 2004)

With Bud Shank

  • I Told You So. ( Candid , 1992)

With Carola Gray

  • Noisy mom. (Jazzline, 1992)

With Lafayette Harris

  • Lafayette Is Here. (Muse, 1993)

With Hannibal Marvin Peterson

  • One with the wind. (Muse, 1993)

With Gust Tsilis

  • Wood Music. (Enja, 1993)

With Regina Carter

With Talib Kibwe

  • Introducing Talib Kibwe. (Evidence, 1996)

With Barbara Dennerlein

  • Take off! ( Verve , 1995)

With Jean-Paul Bourelly , Harry Sokal and Ronnie Burrage

  • Likes Five. (PAO, 1998)

With LaMont Johnson

  • 241 East 3 rd St. (Orchard, 1998)

With Ray Anderson

  • Lapis Lazuli Band - Funkorific. (Enja, 1998)

With Mark Ledford

With Ravi Coltrane

  • Moving Pictures. ( RCA , 1998)

With Teri Thornton

  • I'll be easy to find. (Verve, 1999)

With bunky green

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Ernst Berendt , Günther Huesmann: Das Jazzbuch. 7th completely revised and updated edition. Fischer paperback, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-15964-2 , p. 582.
  2. ↑ Plaxico's homepage (whose information is not always accurate)
personal data
SURNAME Plaxico, Lonnie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, USA