Jimmy Masters Quartet at Williamsburg Regional Library

Jimmy Masters: bass, band leader. Jimmy has been the first call jazz bassist in Hampton Roads for the last 30 years. He has been featured on over 20 recordings of varying styles, from straight-ahead jazz to country and bluegrass. He has also served as producer on a number of highly acclaimed recordings. His performance experience has found him in the company of numerous luminaries as part of the Attucks Jazz Series underwritten by the Virginia Arts Festival. He has performed in clubs all along the Eastern seaboard, including Bleus Alley in Washington DC. His recent recording, When Trees Speak, received critical acclaim from jazz writers all over the country and in Europe and Japan...

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Jimmy Masters: bass, band leader. Jimmy has been the first call jazz bassist in Hampton Roads for the last 30 years. He has been featured on over 20 recordings of varying styles, from straight-ahead jazz to country and bluegrass. He has also served as producer on a number of highly acclaimed recordings. His performance experience has found him in the company of numerous luminaries as part of the Attucks Jazz Series underwritten by the Virginia Arts Festival. He has performed in clubs all along the Eastern seaboard, including Bleus Alley in Washington DC. His recent recording, When Trees Speak, received critical acclaim from jazz writers all over the country and in Europe and Japan. In 2013 he received the VEER Magazine award for Best Jazz in Hampton Roads, has been the recipient of a teaching scholarship from the Milton Hinton Scholarship Fund, and was awarded a grant from the New School in New York City.

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