John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, George Brooks, Jaco, Kai Eckhardt, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Victor Wooten, Vinne Coliuta, Coltrane, Miles, Timucin Sahin, PFunk, Parliment, Funkadelic, James Brown, Fareed Haque, Alan Hertz, Eric Levy
Click "NEW! Kai Eckhardt" to watch video of a jam session and lessons with Master Kai and Bass Player's Senior Editor Jon Herrera.
Download my new track "Gandhi"::HERE::
I am not a bass player, I am a musician who plays the bass
Check out my new photos! On the left is from the London Guitar Show and on the right: Jamming with the Druids
Kai Eckhardt is a Liberian / German bassist known through his work with guitarist John McLaughlin in the late 80's, Billy Cobham in the 90's and Garaj Mahal in the new millennium. Other career highlights include performances and recordings with: Trilok Gurtu, Stanley Clarke, Wayne Shorter, Patrice Rushen, Dewey Redman, Donald Byrd, Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, Robert Walter, Karl Denson, Michael Franti, Larry Coryell, Warren Hill, Al Di Meola, Zakir Hussain, Vital Information , John Scofield and Bill Frisell.
His active career spans 3 decades. Kai is currently a professor at the Jazz School Institute in Berkeley, CA who frequently teaches clinics and workshops world wide. Teaching engagements include the Berklee School of Music in Boston, the Bass Collective in New York City, BIT in Hollywood, the Anton Bruckner Conservatory in Austria, the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, the Amsterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands and Victor Wooten’s Bass and Nature camp.
Kai Eckhardt�s current projects:
-Fusion Band Garaj Mahal, winner of the 2007 Independent Music Awards, and Chicago Music Awards nominee for 2009.
-San Francisco Rock Band Kbrandow
-Indian Jazz Band Summit featuring George Brooks and Zakir Hussain
-Turkish Diva Sertab Erener
-Funk Band RAD featuring Rose Ann Dimalanta
-Euro-fusion trio with Alex Machacek and Marco Minneman.
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Hello, thanks for add Rdv in London for New Year http://www.whirl-y-gig.org.uk/fm.html & 29/01/2009 in Paris 19 (Glaz'art), with new LDB live act all the best, See U
By the way, KSM Guitars is sponsoring a video contest and it is now underway! Be sure to enter to win a sponsorship from KSM Guitars and Foundation™ Bass Bridge, as well as other cool prizes, and get valuable exposure!!
We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it. Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago
Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums
Hi! I've just uploaded a new demo track of my all bass waltz "Angel" as well as new demos of "Soulmates" and "And at the Going Down of the Sun" I hope you will get to check them out and let me know what you think :)
WE HAVE FINALLY COMPLETED FOUR ALBUMS FOR OUR FOUNDATION TO HELP THE NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS IN NEED FEATURING LOUIE BELLSON, PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND, EARL PALMER, HUBERT SUMLIN, LEVON HELM, DR. LONNIE SMITH, JIMMY COBB, CHUCK E. WEISS, JAVON JACKSON, CLEM BURKE, LARRY CAMPBELL, AIRTO MOREIRA, COUGAR & RUBEN ESTRADA, WASHBOARD CHAZ, MIKE WATT, STEVE JORDAN, DANNY 'KOOTCH' KORTCHMAR, JOHN BOUDREAUX, JAMES GADSON, TANMOY BOSE, CLIVE BUNKER, IRA COLEMAN, PETER ERSKINE, JERRY JUMONVILLE, PETE LOCKETT, SANTA DAVIS, JOHNNY VIDACOVICH, SAM CARR, BILL BRUFORD, KEITH CARLOCK, STANTON MOORE, SOUHAIL KASPAR, AFRICAN MUSICIANS, NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES, GOSPEL CHOIRS, CLASSICAL ENSEMBLES, TAP DANCING, LATIN ENSEMBLES, MARDI GRASS INDIANS, STREET MUSICIANS, DJ RE-MIXES, ETC. . . CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT RECORD COMPANY TO RELEASE THESE WONDERFUL GEMS. PLEASE, HELP US SUPPORT THEE CRADLE OF MODERN MUSIC!!! REGARDS, FABIAN JOLIVET
It was Babaluwaiye! Your bass solo is absolutely disgusting! You are a phenomenal talent! I owned that album when it debuted all those years ago, and your bass line stained my brain. I had to find out who did that. Keep being extraordinary!
Hello, Kai! Much thanks for the add and your kind words! Much appreciate! Great being myspacefriends with so fantastic musician like you. Have a great weekend! Aleksey.
I have just checked out your page. Wow! I play Jazz Funk bass in another band, but I can't touch the groove here. Love it ! Love it! Love it! I think I will be here a while.
Greetings to all of my friends around the world!
