Peter Washington

Peter Mark Washington ( born August 28, 1964 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz bassist.

Washington is a jazz bassist mostly self-taught, but has already played in the high school orchestra and in 1978 with the Westchester Community Symphony and guitar and electric bass in rock bands. 1983 to 1986 he studied English literature at Berkeley, where he played with the University Orchestra (as well as the San Francisco Youth Symphony ), but began to be interested in jazz, and by the way took lessons with Herbie Lewis. Already during his studies he joined the Greater San Francisco among others with Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Ernestine Anderson, John Handy, Frank Morgan and Chris Connor. After graduating, he moved to New York City where he was from April 1986 to September 1988 a member of Art Blakey's "Jazz Messengers ". He also played, among others with Wynton Marsalis, Benny Golson, Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy Flanagan (with whom he played for many years in the Trio), Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Johnny Griffin, Kenny Burrell, Milt Jackson, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabackin and Mingus Dynasty. In the 1990s, he toured with the Tommy Flanagan Trio, Carnegie Hall Big Band and the Newport All Stars. He can be heard as a very sought-after studio musician on numerous recordings as a sideman and has taught at the Mannes School of Music in New York.