Essentially everyone and anyone I've ever listened to, or been affected by! Main influences are Jaco, Weather Report, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Richard Bona, Janek Gwizdala, Matt Garrison, Hadrien Feraud, Linley Marthe, Victor Bailey, Stuart Zender, Marcus Miller, Queen / Freddie Mercury, Pino Palladino, Tony Levin, Alphonso Johnson, Pedro Aznar, Bach, Debussy, Anthony Jackson, Joe Zawinul, all the jazz heads obviously (D Gordon, coleman hawkins, getz, gillespie, shorter etc etc).
"Cai Marle-Garcia is a fretless phenomenon. He is one of those very rare players that is connected to the portal, that somehow allows him to play with a pure spirit. No filters, no ego trips...just the pure joy of musical genius.
While there are many players that excel at mimicking my dear friend, the late great Jaco Pastorius, Cai has a certain spark of originality that will someday develop into a full-blown firestorm, of music yet to be heard."
-Dann Glenn
Guitarist/Composer
2009
" Cai has a playing style very reminiscent of Jaco, but his compositions are all his own and contain a great balance of groove, jazz sensibilities and emotive melodies. This album did remind me quite a bit of Jaco's debut solo album (and I mean that in a good way).
" Cai will surely make a splash with this CD....he's a great player playing honest music. There is no pretense here, he's playing from the heart!"
"'Mr. Ears' sounds immense. Great solos, beautiful touch and wonderfully melodic...and the writing is brilliant." - Bassist Laurence Cottle, on Cai and 'Mr. Ears'.
"[Mr. Ears is] pleasantly melodic and immaculately played with Marle-Garcia's rippling, bubbling bass at the heart of the sound providing stimulus for some classy soloing...Marle-Garcia's lovely liquid electric bass...[sounds] remarkably like Jaco in one of his more lyrical moments.
"There is considerable potential here. Cai Marle-Garcia is definitely one to watch."
- Ian Mann - www.thejazzmann.com
"...with Cai's abundance of catchy tunes, snaking funk riffs and his own forceful fretless playing showing he has plenty of original ideas...Marle-Garcia drives this band along with bubbling basslines and some serious solos.
"'Mr. Ears' is a satisfying and substantial album that marks the arrival of a promising new British bass talent." - Mike Flynn's BASS GUITAR MAGAZINE review.
UK-based Cai Marle-Garcia, aka 'MR. EARS', is the driving new force on the international bass scene. Adept on both fretted bass and his favoured fretless bass, the 23-year-old has experience of performing and recording jazz, funk, pop, soul, r’n’b, hip-hop, rock, latin, fusion and world music. From leading his own jazz/rock fusion group with original compositions to recording a spontaneous but highly successful and effervescent debut solo album in 2008/2009, Cai’s journey is certainly one of self-discovery as well as a quest to breathe new life into the jazz scene.
Cai’s love for jazz only started to blossom when he joined the renowned Weekend Arts College (WAC) aged 16. Under the tutelage of saxophone legend Tim Whitehead (‘Nucleus’, ‘The Homemade Orchestra’), the weekly workshops honed Cai’s soloing, arranging and composition skills alongside many other talented young musicians. Here, he followed in the footsteps of other music luminaries associated with WAC, including Ian Carr, Julian Joseph, Mark and Michael Mondesir, Abram Wilson and Courtney Pine. Cai received four major awards from the scheme and was recognised as a promising talent.
In 2005, an enlightening trip to Australia with guitarist Ollie Haydon-Mulligan produced an album for their acid-jazz trio 'Maladaption'. The pair came back to the UK to perform their original material at venues including London’s Jazz Cafe. Cai began working on a group in the role of bandleader and composer and ‘The Mr. Ears Project’ was born. Influenced greatly by his love for the jazz/fusion super-group Weather Report, Cai recorded a demo with his three other band-members in 2006 and by 2007 the group were performing at a variety of notable venues, including the Vortex Jazz Club, Camden Town’s Green Note, The Bulls Head and the 2007 Isle of Wight International Jazz Festival.
In October 2007, Cai felt 'The Mr. Ears Project' had come to a natural conclusion and began a new journey, working with pianist Richard Fairhurst, saxophonist Russell van den Berg and drummer Martyn Kaine. After toying with the idea of forming a new group, Cai decided to arrange a spontaneous recording session. He contacted 10 vastly talented musicians, some young and some experienced (three of whom Cai met for the first time on the day of recording); three long days in August 2008 saw immense energy and musicianship combine to make a unique recording and write the first big chapter in Cai’s story.
Cai's debut album, entitled ‘Mr. Ears’ features saxophonists Tony Woods, Duncan Eagles and Rob Sell, keyboardists Kit Downes and Steve Kite, drummers Martyn Kaine and Dan Paton, guitarist Sagat Guirey, Freddie Gavita on trumpet, and Stuart Semple on percussion.
Cai has worked with guitarists Sagat Guirey and Ronnie Johnson, Tim Whitehead, Tony Woods, Richard Fairhurst, Russell van den Berg, Martyn Kaine and many other top musicians. He has also had 'Mr. Ears' played on international radio, including BBC radio, Jazz FM and Accuradio, and has performed live on BBC radio.
With his own original compositions, Cai has a clear vision: to bring what made jazz-fusion in the 1970s and 80s so good, to the modern day. Memorable tunes that you'll end up whistling, grooves that simmer then boil over. Organic tunes that make modern jazz about melodies and 'in-the-moment' spontaneity. With his debut album 'Mr. Ears', Cai is looking to start this revival from 2009.
'Mr. Ears' is available on CD NOW!
For any direct enquiries, my Skype contact name is: bassmancai
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