[Jeff Playing Bass, drawing by Mike Shire www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~shire]

 

Jeff Bilmes is an acoustic and electric bass player based in the San Francisco Bay Area who plays many forms of music, especially jazz. He also plays a variety of percussion instruments.

Jeff has performed with Phillip Bailey (of Earth, Wind, and Fire), Terry Lynn Carington, Cyrus Chestnut, Steve Coleman, Jesus Diaz, Pete Escovedo, Shiela E., Dave Girabaldi, Brad Hargreaves (of Third Eye Blind), Heracio "El Negro" Hernandes, Giovanni Hidalgo, Vijay Iyer, Dave Kikoski, C. K. Ladzekpo, Chuck Mangioni, Midnight Voices with Mohamad Bilal, Neil Schon (of Journey), Rebeca Mauleon-Santana, Armando Perazza, Karl Perazzo, Raul Rekow, Aaron Scott (McCoy Tyner's drummer), Omar Sosa, Mike Spiro, Orestes Vilato, E.W. Wainwright, and Danny Walsh. He also received a 1996 "Bammie" (Bay Area Music) award for best word-beat album of the year. Among the many bands Jeff plays with, he is currently with the well-known latin band Avance and on the new CD.

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