The past few years, in the Deborah J. Carter Quartet I've been working a lot with Enrique Firpi and Coen Molenaar, but I've also gigged with: Arthur Conley - Denise Jannah - Michel van Dijk - Maria Viana - Leonardo Amuedo - Ed Verhoeff - Jay Kaye - Wolf Martini - Martien Oster - Patrick Sedoc - Rob Takema - Wil Sophie - Jaco Abel - Abe Rabade - Pedro Madaleno - Paul Hock - Hans Rusche - Paul Wertico -Luis Luz - Joost Kesselaar - Erik Kooger - Guno Kramer - Salvador Niebla - Maarten Kruiswijk - Chuck Silverman - Pierre van der Linden - Cyril Directie - Olaf Keus - Rolf Breemer - Frank auf dem Brinke - Remco van der Sluis - Steve Altenberg - Jeroen van Helsdingen - Ferial Karamat Ali - Joan Monné - Mike Delferro - Salman Gabarov - Marianne Stel - Roger Happel - Dirk Balthaus - Jan Reinen - Edwin Berg - Steven Hupkens - Cajan Witmer - Hans Dulfer - Candy Dulfer - Rinus Groeneveld - Tom Beek - Ben van Dungen - Benjamin Herman - Willem Hellbreker - Efraim Trujillo - Joris Roelofs - Michael Varekamp - Loet van der Lee - Jarmo Hoogendijk - Nippy Noya - Bart Fermie - Jeroen de Rijk - Shana Noya - Daniel Patriasz - Martino Latuperissa - Frits Landesbergen and many more. Those gigs have brought me to Spain, Portugal, USA, Azerbaijan, Canada, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Switzerland, UK, Turkey, France. I'm looking forward to more!
Influences
The usual suspects and then some, in no particular order:
Anthony Jackson,
John Pattitucci,
Marcus Miller,
Ray Brown,
NOHP,
Jerry Jemmot,
Jaco,
Rocco Prestia,
Steve Swallow,
Oscar Stagnaro,
James Jamerson,
Abe Laboriel,
etc, etc, etc
and my teachers:
Bob Magnussen,
Jeff Berlin
Mark Zandveld is (acoustic) bass guitarist and the coördinator of the Deborah J. Carter Quartet, (check her out at www.Myspace.com/deborahjcarter) and is available for freelance work on electric and acoustic bass as well. He is familiar with a wide spectrum of styles ranging from jazz to soul, blues, R&B, Latin, Brazilian, funk and pop. Mark is also (co-)producer of 4 CD's by Deborah J. Carter
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Mark Zandveld was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and started with guitar lessons when he was thirteen. After a few years he switched over to bass, though he still doubles on guitar as well. He worked with several jazz, funk, soul, and rhythm & blues bands, amongst others: Lee Roberts & the Sweaters with soul-legend Arthur Conley. Mark remastered a unique last live recording by this artist for re-release on CD.
After a period with many gigs in the Amsterdam club scene, he went to Hollywood to study at the renowned Bass Institute of Technology. He completed his study receiving the "Yamaha Bass Player of the Year Award".
Back in the Netherlands, Mark played in Bluespower with ex-Alquin vocalist Michel van Dijk and guitarist Wil Sophie, and as freelancer with many Dutch and American R & B, funk, and jazz groups and artists. With the experience of his study in America, Mark also started teaching, both private and at a local music school. After a year long stay in Portugal (where he worked with jazz vocalist Maria Viana and Eurovision candidates Da Vinci) he lived several years in Spain where he started to work with American jazz vocalist Deborah J. Carter.
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Since 1993 Mark works steadily with (and is since 1994 married to) American jazz vocalist Deborah J. Carter. Together they started their company JoyFelt Productions, for which they produced four contemporary jazz CD's. As the regular bassist of the Deborah J. Carter Quartet, in the past years his activities include theater concerts, jazz festivals and clubs, TV and radio performances, and seminars in Holland, Belgium, Malta, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, England, Canada, U.S.A, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Mark also enjoys playing with several bigbands.
Besides his musical activities, Mark is engaged in the management and website maintenance for JoyFelt Productions. He runs the Joyfelt mobile studio, based on a Yamaha AW4416 harddisk recorder. He was beta-tester for the Waves Y56K plug-ins card, for which he also wrote additional manuals. Mark endorses Takamine basses; he plays both the Takamine B10 "mini upright bass" and a unique custom-built fretted "horizontal" version of the B10. Check out the video's to hear him playing them.
Recently Mark has started a weekly Vocal Session at De Badcuyp, Amsterdam.
It was quite a night in Tunisia... maar ik had gelukkig een halfvolle airbus voor de terugreis. Hopelijk hadden jullie ook een goede terugvlucht. Ik vond het erg gezellig, zo met z'n allen een beetje eten en drinken, en muziek maken. Moeten we vaker doen!
Hello Mark. Wybe and I enjoyed last night so much. You started a real good thing and it's in a real good place : ) You are a fanstastic bass player. We hope to hear you again soon.
Hola!! paso para saludarte y desearte lo mejor para este nuevo año. Espero que todas tus ilusiones y proyectos terminen en buen puerto. Por que de vez en cuando nos merecemos una alegría ¿verdad?
HOLA MARK..!!!..MUCHAS GRACIAS POR AGREGARNOS..A SIDO UN ENORME PLACER EL HABEROS CONOCIDO Y VEROS TOCAR..SOYS GENIALES..DA GUSTO CONOCER A GENTE COMO VOSOTROS...ESPERO VOLVER A VEROS MUY PRONTO..TE DEJAMOS UN FUERTE ABRAZO..
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