Jonny Gee

Musical polymath, London bassist Jonny Gee was appointed as a professor at the Guildhall (coaching impro & small groups) has worked across many styles of jazz and other music, performing with artists including:

Ravi Shankar, Ronnie Scott, Dame Cleo Laine, Lee Konitz, King Salsa, Roberto Pla, Antonio Forcione, Dame Emma Kirkby, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Derek Jacobi (who toured reading poetry with Utter:Jazz), Ruthie Culver, Zum, La Mariposa Tango, Kosmos, The Sixteen, Voces8, The London Handel Orchestra, The Chinese Silk String Quartet, The Hep Chaps, Ruby & The Dukes, The Ikos, Dom Pipkin's Allstar New Orleans Trio, DJ Mista Trick ("Do what you do"/YOU Album), Aaron Liddard, England (Carmina Burana prog rock), Brian May & Roger Daltrey & Ben Elton (for Roger Taylor private shows), Gracie & The G-Spots.

He also records regularly at Abbey Road, Air Lyndhurst, Metropolis and Angel Studios in London and is featured on several feature film, TV commercial, and BBC dramas (including the solo jazz and baroque bass lines on BAFTA-winning soundtrack for Henry VIII by Phil Sheppard).

www.JonnyGee.co.uk 

Gear

Double bass (jazz, classical, baroque) using gut or modern strings - as appropriate to the style 

Salsa Baby Bass

Fretless Jazz Bass

Precision Bass

Ashbory Bass (the original solid body 1960s silicone string bass -- precursor of the Ukulele Bass)

Low-G and Low-D baroque violones

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