Ollie Collins - Basses (electric, acoustic upright, fretless, piccolo) Guitars, Keyboards, vocals.
Saxes: Rico Garofalo, Simon Willescroft.
Trumpet: Jeremy Sassoon.
Guitar: Dave Stockwell
Keys/Piano: Colin McLeod, Jeremy Sassoon, Matt Steele.
Background Vocals: Rosie Douglas
Drums: Richard Kenyon, Greg Morgan, Matt Swindells, Dave Walsh, Mark Warbuton.
Percussion: Lea Mullan
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Influences
James Jamerson, Larry Graham, Pino Palladino, Level 42, Thomas Dolby, Bernard Edwards/ Nile Rogers, Percy Jones, Francis Dunnery, Tony Levin, Prince, Allan Holdsworth, The Yellow Jackets, Marcus Miller, Francis Roco Prestia (TOP), Stanley Clarke, Frank Zappa, Roland Orzabal, Yes, Cream, Sly And The Family Stone, Bootsy Collins, Victor Wooten/Bela Fleck And The Flecktones, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, John Lennon/Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Nile Rogers/Bernard Edwards, Sting and the Police, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Chick Corea, Alain Caron, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Anthony Jackson, Danny Thomson, Sly and Robbie, Jimi Hendrix and not forgetting Jaco Pastorius.
Sounds Like
Stanley Clarke, Victor Wooten, James Jamerson, Bootsy Collins, Marcus Miller, Pino Palladino, Mark King, Level 42, UZEB, Sixun, Yellow Jackets.
Born in Stockport, a large town just south of Manchester (England) Ollie Collins found his musical feet along side his older brother John (check out Starbase 109 link below).
At 11 years Ollie switched from piano to Bass guitar and developed his technique by jamming along with other local musicians.
1n 1995 Ollie studied Jazz Harmony, Arranging, reading and the Double Bass at Leeds College of Music. These skills, together with a wealth of performance and recording experience helped Ollie shape his career as a session musician.
In the subsequent years has been busy recording and performing with local artists; Angie Palmer "Jersey Street" (Glasgow Underground), Mettle Music (Toko), Big Finn (MR) and also Rebelski (Heavenly,EMI) Holly Lerski (Sanctuary). As well as performances with Global artists: Bob Mintzer, Branford Marsalis and Alan Parsons.
In 2003 Ollie produced and released his debut album "Make Time Last" he also authors the critically acclaimed "Ollie Collins' Global Bass website and has received global traffic and album sales. Ollie performs regularly with his Manchester Jazz/Fusion outfit "Acoustric" which play an original repertoire.
Still residing in Manchester Ollie has become a mainstay in the local music scene. Playing both electric and upright bass and together with backing vocals he manages to sustain enough Pop/Rock and Jazz gigs and recording to work full time.
OLLIE
COLLINS: A New Direction
A tasteful in-fusion
of funk, rock, soul and electro, where catchy melodies and infectious
grooves rule. An interesting and creative use of basses. Click
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OLLIE COLLINS: Make Time Last
A myriad of contemporary Jazz, Soul and Latin originals; a melodic groove ride with instruments from the bass guitar family including piccolo, acoustic and Chapman Stick.
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."-
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
Hello Ollie ~ Just listening to my newly arrived copy of Ian's Whisper album..... The bass parts are all so wonderful and sympatico with the songs....esp loving Under The Sun and O'Caseys Ghost at the moment....but all of them really !
listen to our latest release [BWO027] SAX SECRETS - KLANGFREQUENZ FT YVES LE FRANC supported by Tim Green, Dean Facer, Paul Loraine, Tony Rodriguez, Igor Marijuan, Kiko Martinez and many more!! Sambuca surely shows more the deep, melodic but very stylish side of Deep House music whereas Klangfrequenz' remix of E-Wozz' original track Gwada is a more pumpy and drum orientated display of playful Tech House. Watch out for these tracks, it's a great way to release the warm summer feelings once more before the winter delivers the opposite!
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listen to our latest release BWO021 PRIMAL SCREAM EP - KLANGFREQUENZ on our myspace page. The EP is supported by AXWELL, TOM NOVY, MARK BROWN and many more and displays deep, melodic Tech House with the two tracks 'Primal Scream' and 'Day vs Night'.
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