Bassist, Aaron Germain, grew up in Massachusetts, but has lived in the San Francisco bay area since 2000. Playing both upright and electric basses, he is adept at diverse genres of music. Aaron can be seem playing, straight-ahead jazz, cabaret, modern jazz, r&b, funk, salsa, Brazilian, West African, Indian, odd-meter, country, pop, rock, ect. His philosophy has always been, to be picky abo...
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Bassist, Aaron Germain, grew up in Massachusetts, but has lived in the San Francisco bay area since 2000. Playing both upright and electric basses, he is adept at diverse genres of music. Aaron can be seem playing, straight-ahead jazz, cabaret, modern jazz, r&b, funk, salsa, Brazilian, West African, Indian, odd-meter, country, pop, rock, ect. His philosophy has always been, to be picky about quality, but not genre. He is also a composer, with 2 albums of original music. "Before You Go" and "Chance" can both be found on his website www.aarongermain.com.
Over the years, Aaron has performed with artists such as:
Yusef Lateef
Stanley Jordon
Andy Narell
Michael Wolff
Tommy Igoe
Bonnie Raitt
Francisco Aquabella
Nguyen Le
Paul McCandless
Scott Hamilton
Alex de Grassi
John Handy
Melba Moore
Mary Wilson
Paula West
Jason Samuel Smith
Tom Coster
Gary Meek
Gene Jackson
Kendra Shank
Gary Versace
John Stowell
Jacqui Naylor
Barry Finnerty
Calvin Keyes
Jeff Massanari
Michael Zilber
Dwight Trible
Eddie Marshal
Art Khu
Dave Ellis
Babatunde Lea
Gordon Stone
Kenny Washington
Josh Jones
Akira Tana
Jamie Davis
Royal Hartigan
among many others... He has performed at venues such as, the Blue Note (NY), Birdland (NY) Scullers (Boston), The House of Blues (Boston), The Blues Alley (Washington DC), Zanzibar Blue (Philadelphia), Yoshis (SF), Yoshis (Oakland), The California Jazz Conservatory (Berkeley), SF Jazz, Humphrey's by the Bay (San Diego), The Fillmore (SF), Dakotas (Minneapolis), The Iron Horse (Northampton), Herbst Theatre (SF), Kuumbwa (Santa Cruz), Le Club Jazz (Kyoto), Cafe Yorozuya (Kobe), Z Imagine (Tokyo), Donfan (Tokyo), MEG (Tokyo), Bar T.T. Funk (Tokyo), The San Francisco Jazz Festival, The North Beach Jazz Festival, The Fillmore Jazz Festival, The San Jose Jazz Festival, and the Drumming in the New Millenium Festival in front of the Great Pyramids of Egypt (December of 1999)
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