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Name
  
Joe Fonda

Role
  
Bassist


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Albums
  
Lower East Side Blues, Between Shadow And Light, Trio, Live at the Iron Works

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Joe Fonda (born December 16, 1954) is an American jazz bassist.

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Fonda was born in Amsterdam, New York to parents who both played jazz. He played guitar as a youth but switched to bass guitar later on. He studied bass at Berklee College of Music, where he also began playing upright bass. He played in the New Haven, Connecticut area in the early 1980s, and recorded with Wadada Leo Smith. In 1994 he began playing with Anthony Braxton, collaborating with him extensively for the next five years. He and Michael Jefry Stevens co-lead an ensemble, the Fonda-Stevens group, that began in 1991 and has continued through 2009. The group has recorded 10 cds and continues to perform extensively in Europe and the United States. Since the late 1990s Fonda has recorded often as a bandleader.

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Fonda has also explored dance in relation to jazz music; he played bass with a dance company in the 1980s and incorporated a tap dancer into his ensemble for the albums From the Source and The Healing.

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Discography

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  • Looking for the Lake (1976)
  • Procession of the Great Ancestry with Wadada Leo Smith (1983)
  • The Wish with Michael Jefry Stevens (Music & Arts, 1996)
  • Parallel Lines with Michael Jefry Stevens (Music & Arts, 1997)
  • Evolution with Michael Jefry Stevens (Leo, 1997)
  • From the Source with Vicki Dodd and Brenda Bufalino (Konnex, 1998)
  • Full Circle Suite (CIMP, 1999)
  • When It's Time (Jazzhalo, 1999)
  • Live at the Bunker (Leo, 2000)
  • Step-In (De Werf, 2000)
  • Distance (Leo, 2000)
  • The Healing (2002)
  • Blisters (Jazzhalo, 2003)
  • Heat Suite in Four Parts (Konnex, 2004)
  • Twelve Improvisations (Leo, 2004)
  • What We're Hearing (De Werf)
  • Poetry in Motion with Conference Call Quartet (Clean Feed, 2009)

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  • Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project 1993 (HatART, 1993 [1995])
  • Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994 (Music & Arts, 1994 [1996])
  • Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 1 (Leo, 1994)
  • Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 2 (Leo, 1994)
  • Small Ensemble Music (Wesleyan) 1994 (Splasc(H), 1994 [1999])
  • Composition No. 173 (Black Saint, 1994 [1996])
  • Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995 (Braxton House, 1995 [1997])
  • Sextet (Istanbul) 1996 (Braxton House, 1995 [1996])
  • Octet (New York) 1995 (Braxton House, 1995 [1997])
  • Ensemble (New York) 1995 (Braxton House, 1995 [1997])
  • Tentet (New York) 1996 (Braxton House, 1996)
  • Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 1 (Leo, 1997 [2002])
  • Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 2 (Leo, 1997 [2003])
  • Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 3 (Leo, 1997 [2003])
  • Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 4 (Leo, 1997 [2007])

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    References

    Joe Fonda Wikipedia


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