Bass Credits Currently bassist with JEFF BRIDGES & the ABIDERS Tico has performed and recorded with a wide range of musicians including Jake Shimabukuro, Flora Purim and Airto, Matrix, Strunz and Farah, John McEuen, Kenny Loggins, Lawson Rollins, Les McCann, Joe Farrell, Scott Cossu, Sadao Wantanabe, Henry Butler, Ivan Lins and Willie & Lobo. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Tico took to music early, studying classical piano, guitar and bass. Out of school, he honed his wares in numerous local club bands, learning jazz, latin and rock techniques that he would later draw upon as the bassist for the internationally acclaimed jazz group Matrix. Tico’s involvement with Matrix included touring and three albums–”Wizard” and “Tale of the Whale” for Warner Brothers and “Harvest” for Pablo. Tico’s distinctive, melodic bass style, incorporating unusual techniques with harmonics, was a cornerstone of the Matrix sound. During that time Tico met Flora Purim and Airto. He proceeded to tour the globe and record many albums with the famous Brazilian couple. His involvement with the music of Brazil has continued with artists such as Ivan Lins, Kleber Jorge (singer w/ Sergio Mendes), Dori Caymmi, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Teka and Fabiano Nacimiento.. In addition, he recorded and toured with the Grammy award winning, world music group “Strunz and Farah” and appeared with them on the PBS television show “Sound Festival”. After returning to California from his Matrix stint, Tico began assembling large-scale multi-media projects for the annual Santa Barbara Arts Festivals. “Soundscapes”, involving music, multiple-projector visuals, and dance, resulting in an album release on Inner Circle records, with Tico at the helm as performer, composer, and producer. The project was refined in subsequent years and evolved into the yet more elaborate “Vision Quest” and “The First People”. He then served as music director for Santa Barbara’s celebrated Summer Solstice Parades and followed that by producing, writing and directing trans-cultural, multi-media, festival concerts for the Solstice Evening Performances of ’90-’95. The album “Earth Dance”, featuring original Tico compositions was released in ’91 on Higher Octave Music. Also in ’91 The California Arts Council awarded him a grant for music composition. Tico has joined percussionist Efrian Toro and Brazilian composer/keyboardist Rique Pantoja as instructors for educational seminars in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He was also featured as guest artist/teacher at the Bozeman Bass Bash in Montana along with Brian Bromberg and Barry Green (author of “The Inner Game of Music”). In ’98 the Bay Bass Band (founded by Barry Green) commissioned Tico to compose a new work for 5 acoustic basses and percussion. Other composers for the group include John Pattituci and Jimmy Haslip. He was bassist on the 2001 PBS special: The Jeff Barry Show, with special guests Brian Wilson, Jeffery Osborne and Denise Williams.
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