Duke Ellington, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Charlie Mingus, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Christian Lindberg, JJ Johnson, Albert Menglesdorf, Howard Johnson, Karl Perazzo, Jimmy Bosch, Barry Rogers, Robin Eubanks, Dave Holland, Josh Roseman, my long time friend Eric Rowles, Mike Rinta (on Bone AND Tuba), Fred Wesley, Adam Theis, Marty Wehner, Jeff Cressman, Roger Bobo, Francois Thuillier, Michel Godard, Dave Bargeron, Zachariah Spellman, Jeffrey Anderson, Patrick Sheridan, Sam Pilafian, Arnold Jacobs and many, many others.
Marc "Iron-Lip" Bolin, also known as "T.Rex", has performed (Tuba and/OR Trombone) with such organizations as the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras, Carla Bley, the Virginia Beach Pops, Pete Escovedo, Sheila E, Black Eyed Peas, Johnny Rivera, Herman Olivera, Anthony Cruz, Ommy Cardona, Nino Segarra, the Ink Spots, Cell Block 7 in State Tour of China, the Ambassadors of New Orleans' Jazz at the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel and has performed in two of Philip Glass' Operas "Akhnaten" and "La Belle et la Bête."
Marc can be heard performing with the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orch, Oakland Opera, Realistic Orchestra, Avance, Paradigm Brass, Dream Kitchen, Joseph's Bones, Low-End Theory, St. Gabriel's Brass Band and Brasshopper and the Mitch Marcus Quintet +13.
In addition to playing music, Marc is an experienced teacher and youth advocate who has worked with multicultural youth from diverse backgrounds at the elementary and high school levels in workshops and residencies stretching from one day to 10 months. His work as an arts-educator has included appointments throughout the Bay Area. He is also co-founder of Toones, After- school Music Enrichment program.
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