Jeff Johnson (bass player)

Jeff Johnson ( born December 12, 1954 in Minneapolis ) is an American jazz bassist.

Biography

Jeff Johnson played as a young rock music before he turned to jazz. With 20 years he has worked with musicians from the jazz scene of Philadelphia; later, inter alia, with musicians such as Philly Joe Jones, Charlie Rouse, Barney Kessel, Chet Baker, Lew Tabackin and Eddie Daniels. In 1984 he presented his debut album, Harbinger. Since 1990, based in Seattle, he worked in the 1990s with several albums of pianist Jessica Williams and Hal Galper Trio with and entered in the John Stowell on; He also worked as an accompanist of singers such Karrin Allyson, Mark Murphy, Tierney Sutton Marlena Shaw and Kendra Shank. Johnson was also a member of the musicians ' cooperative Scenes and worked for the Seattle-based label Label Origin on a series of recordings. With his own trio, the saxophonist Hans Teuber and drummer Bill Mintz plays, he made ​​several albums on his own compositions, published the Origin. Musically, it integrates older jazz traditions with game forms of European free jazz and improvised music. Jeff Johnson is not to be confused with jazz guitarist Jef Lee Johnson, among others, played with James Carter and Ronald Shannon Jackson.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Free ( Origin, 1999)
• The Art of Falling ( Origin, 2001)
• New Earth ( Origin, 2004)
• Tall Stranger ( Origin, 2008)