BIORicardo has been steadily recording and performing the New York City music scene since 2005 and has performed and appeared on national TV on several networks with artist such as Legend Chubby Checker, Talk show host Wanda Sykes, Hollywood Actress Singer Songwriter Alicia Witt, Multi Emmy Award Winning Disney Music Producer Martin Erskine, Bravo's Hitmaker Johnny Marnell, MTV Logo's Josh Zuckerm...an, FOX's Fearless Music TV Dan Torres, Primo Casper Gomez of Sootyz Groove among many others. Ricardo maintains a busy schedule of rehearsals, recording sessions and live events and is not only professional but loyal to everyone he has the opportunity to perform and work with. Over the last several years Ricardo has been featured on over a dozen recordings from various up and coming singer-songwriters and loves to work with artist of all genre's. Over the last 18 months Ricardo’s bass playing can be heard in the opening to The Wanda Sykes talk show on FOX, has been featured on a inspirational biography series “In Pursuit of Passion” by Tracey Rosensteel on ipoptelevison, recorded tracks for a new Disney series with Martin Erskine, performed off Broadway with David Levinson and also has completed a boat load of tracks for 5 new releases soon to hit the digital markets by Aiden James, Justin Utley, EvGenia Lesov, Zach Adam and Jeff Fiorello. In his spare time Ricardo enjoys staying physically fit, international and domestic travel, biking, sailing and sky diving. __________________________________________________________ARTISTAmbitious original artist and or singer songwriters in need of a bassist inquire about my availibilty. I am active in the circuit and have performed at many venue's in the area, Mercury Lounge, Rockwood Music Hall, Highline Ballroom, Joes Pub, Metropolitan room , Le Poisson Rouge, Bitter End, Sullivan Hall, Arlene's Grocery, Living Room, Kenny's Castaways, Piano's, Cafe Vivaldi, National Underground, Don Hills to name a few.I am a versatile, punctual, reliable easy to work with professional. I have my own transportation and private rehearsal and recording studio if needed. I prefer to be involved with integrity projects with studio CD release aspirations that I will be a part of. If you have charts and a gig in the next week or two, that sits really well with me! I don't like sitting around. Melodic bass players always get my attention. Pino Palladino, Will Lee, Paul McCartney, John Deacon, Ricky Minor, Rich Bona. As for genre's Alternative, Indie, Pop, Rock, Folk, R&B, Gospel, Blues, Jazz, Trip-Hop, Adult Contemporary is all good for me. I have international travel, stage and recording studio experience and play 4 and 5 string electric and 5 string electric upright basses. I have about 20 basses (Sadowsky, Fender, Music Man, G&L, NSD, Dingwall, Yamaha) to cover any sound you might be looking for and have bass amps and speaker cabinets by Eden, Ampeg, SWR, Aguilar, Hartke and JBL to support venues of all sizes. Please remove any spaces from these links in order for them to work :)MP3'sSinger Songwriter, Pop, Rock, Blueshttp://www.myspace.com/video/vid/107879336http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/alicia-witt-live-at-rockwood-music-hall/51556201http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/in-the-woozyfly-studio-with-broken-carousel/41267276Blue Eyed Soul and Funk http://www.myspace.com/ricardobassist/videos/johnny-marnell-live-rockwood-music/107611425http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/funk-soul-master-fl-jones-at-the-baggott-inn/650197http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/abby-ahmad-live-at-the-knitting-factory/4678549Raggaehttp://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/video/55652032Jazz http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/rubber-skunk-live-jazz-at-fat-baby/103327082 http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/jamhunters-live-jazz-at-smalls-in-nyc/46357199http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/rubber-skunk-live-jazz-at-sullivan-hall/104811954Hard Rockhttp://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/dan-torres-live-at-the-mercury-lounge/4369988 http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/the-underscore-with-phil-common/41790729 Disney Audio Sample Demo Reel for tv cartoon network, work featuring Anne-Marie Milazzo - Vocals from East Village Opera Company along with TV theme I played bass for Wanda Sykes TV show and more. http://www.myspace.com/ricardobassist/music/songs/tv-demo-reel-77120602Fox LOGO and CBS TV airingshttp://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/dan-torres-on-fox-fearless-music-tv/31047128 http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/chubby-checker-on-the-cbs-early-morning-show/38937988 http://www.myspace.com/ricardobass/videos/josh-zuckerman-logo-video-ricardo-rodriguez-bass/769729A friend described these sessions like this, "If Danny Elfman scored a broadway show and got Florence & the machine or Tori Amos or Regina Spector or Bjork to sing, it might sound like this"Live rehearsal MP3's recorded at my rehearsal studio. (Trio- Bass, Drums, Singer plays piano)http://soundcloud.com/ricardobass/pisces-act-one-live-studiohttp://soundcloud.com/ricardobass/pisces-act-two-live-studiohttp://soundcloud.com/rrodrig458/pisces-act-three-live-studio Websites:....._\|//_....(` o-o ')ooO-(_)-Ooo------------email: [email protected] webpage: http://ricardo-bass.com/facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ricardobassplayermyspace: http://www.myspace.com/ricardobassistreverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/ricardobassplayer youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/alotabassvimeo: http://vimeo.com/ricardobassplayersoundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/ricardobassabout.me: http://about.me/ricardobassistpurevolume: http://www.purevolume.com/RicardoBassistbandmix: http://www.bandmix.com/nybass30/twitter: http://twitter.com/ricardobass,New York City Bassist, read more ...
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