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Puerto Rican bassist
Musical artist
Edgar Gómez (born October 4, 1944) is a
Puerto Rican
jazz
double bassist , known for his work with the
Bill Evans Trio from 1966 to 1977.
Biography
Gómez moved with his family from Puerto Rico at a young age to New York, where he was raised.
[1] He started on double bass in the New York City school system at the age of eleven and at age thirteen went to the New York City
High School of Music & Art .
[2] He played in the Newport Festival Youth Band (led by
Marshall Brown ) from 1959 to 1961, and graduated from
Juilliard in 1963.
[2]
He has played with musicians such as
Gerry Mulligan ,
Marian McPartland ,
Paul Bley ,
Tania Maria ,
Steps Ahead , and
Chick Corea .
[1] He spent a total of eleven years with the
Bill Evans Trio, which included performances in the United States, Europe and Asia, as well as dozens of recordings.
[1]
His career mainly consists of working as an accompanist, a position suited for his quick reflexes and flexibility.
[2] In addition to working as a
studio musician for many famous jazz musicians, he has recorded as a leader for
Columbia Records ,
Projazz and
Stretch .
[1] Many of his recent recordings as a leader are co-led by the jazz pianist
Mark Kramer .
[2]
In May 2013, Gómez was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from
Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain.
[3] This was the first honorary doctorate granted at the college's new international campus in Spain.
[3]
Discography
As leader/co-leader
As sideman
With
John Abercrombie
With
Warren Bernhardt
Blue Montreux (
Arista , 1978)
Blue Montreux II (Arista, 1979)
Warren Bernhardt Trio (DMP, 1983)
With
Paul Bley
With
Joanne Brackeen
With
Randy Brecker
With
Bill Bruford and
Ralph Towner
With Frank Caruso and Bob Rummage
With
Joe Chambers
Isla Verde (Paddle Wheel, 1995)
With Santos Chillemi
Trinidad (Maracatu, 1991)
Au Gre Du Temps (Frémeaux & Associés, 2004)
With
Billy Cobham
Drum 'n' Voice - All That Groove (
Sony Music , 2001)
With
Chick Corea
With
Jack DeJohnette
With
Armen Donelian
With
Eliane Elias
With
Peter Erskine
With
Bill Evans
A Simple Matter of Conviction (
Verve , 1966)
California Here I Come (Verve, 1967)
Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival (Verve, 1968)
What's New (Verve, 1969)
Autumn Leaves (Lotus, 1969)
Jazzhouse (
Milestone , 1969)
You're Gonna Hear From Me (Milestone, 1969)
From Left to Right (
MGM , 1970)
Quiet Now (
Charly , 1970)
Montreux II (
CTI , 1970)
Homewood (
Red Bird Records , 1970)
The Bill Evans Album (Columbia, 1971)
Two Super Bill Evans Trios: Live In Europe! (Unique Jazz, 1972)
Living Time with
George Russell Orchestra (Columbia, 1972)
The Tokyo Concert (
Fantasy , 1973)
Eloquence (Fantasy, 1973)
Half Moon Bay (Milestone, 1973)
Since We Met (Fantasy, 1974)
Re: Person I Knew (Fantasy, 1974)
Symbiosis (
MPS , 1974)
But Beautiful (Milestone, 1974)
Blue in Green: The Concert in Canada (Milestone, 1974)
Live In Europe, Vol.1 & Vol.2 (
EPM Musique , 1974)
Intuition (Fantasy, 1974)
Montreux III (Fantasy, 1975)
With
Monica Zetterlund - Swedish Concert 1975 (Nova Disc, 1975)
In His Own Way (Nova Disc, 1975)
Crosscurrents (Fantasy, 1977)
I Will Say Goodbye (Fantasy, 1977)
You Must Believe in Spring (
Warner Bros. , 1977)
From The 70's - Unreleased live recordings from 1973-74 (Fantasy, 1983/
Original Jazz Classics , 2002)
Live In Paris 1972 Vol.1 y 2 (
France's Concert , 1988)
Live In Paris 1972 Vol.3 (France's Concert, 1989)
Switzerland 1975 (
Domino Records , 1990)
Buenos Aires Concert 1973 (Yellow Note Records, 1991)
The Secret Sessions: Recorded at the Village Vanguard 1966-1975 (Milestone, 1996)
The Sesjun Radio Shows - Unreleased live recordings from 1973
[4] (Out Of The Blue, 2011)
Live At Art D'Lugoff's Top Of The Gate - Live recordings 1968
[5] (
Resonance , 2012)
Live '66: The Oslo Concerts
[6] (Somethin' Cool, 2016)
Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest - Unreleased live recordings from 1968
[7] (Resonance, 2016)
Another Time: The Hilversum Concert - Unreleased recording of 1968
[8] (Resonance, 2017)
On A Monday Evening - Unreleased live recording of 1976 at Madison Union Theater,
University of Wisconsin
[9] (Fantasy, 2017)
Evans In England - Unreleased live recording of 1969
[10] (Resonance, 2019)
With
Art Farmer
With Mordy Ferber
Mr. X (Ozone Music, 1995)
Being There (CDBY, 2005)
With
Michael Franks
With Jeff Gardner
Continuum (Terramar, 2007)
With
Art Garfunkel
With
George Garzone
Alone (NYC Records, 1995)
With
Mick Goodrick
With Dino Govoni
With
Bunky Green
With
David Grisman
With
Tim Hardin
With
Billy Hart
With
Richie Havens
With Terumasa Hino
Double Rainbow (
CBS , 1981)
With
Jennifer Holliday
With
Freddie Hubbard
With
Sandy Hurvitz
Sandy's Album Is Here At Last (Verve, 1968)
With
Bob James
All Around The Town (CBS, 1981)
With Andrei Kondakov
Fairy Tale In The Rain (Outline Records, 2012)
Blues For 4 (СПб Собака RU, 2005)
With
Lee Konitz
With
Mark Kramer
Jazz Fiddler on the Roof (Mythic Jazz, 2002 | Twinz, 2005)
Art of the Heart (Art of Life, 2006)
Kind of Trio with Joe Chambers (Eroica, 2008 | Strawberry Mansion, 2017)
Boulders and Mountains (Eroica, 2009 | Blue Node, 2017)
Art of Music (Strawberry Mansion, 2017)
With
Ernie Krivda
With
Kronos Quartet
With
Andy LaVerne
Liquid Silver (DMP, 1984)
Metropolis - Unreleased recording of 1979 (ALV Productions, 2018)
With Tom Lellis
And In This Corner... (Inner City, 1979)
Double Entendre (Beamtide Records, 1991)
Tom Lellis (Solid Records, 2018)
With
Dave Liebman
With
Joe Locke
With
Giuseppi Logan
With
Enric Madriguera
The Minute Samba 1932-50, Vol. 2 (Harlequin, 2003)
With
Mike Mainieri
An American Diary (NYC Records, 1995)
Live At Seventh Avenue South (NYC Records, 1996)
With
Melissa Manchester
With
Manhattan Jazz Quintet
My Funny Valentine (Paddle Wheel, 1986)
The Sidewinder (Paddle Wheel, 1986)
Live At Pit Inn (Paddle Wheel, 1986)
Live At Pit Inn Vol. 2 (Paddle Wheel, 1986)
My Favorite Things - Live in Tokio (Paddle Wheel, 1986)
Manhattan Blues (Sweet Basil, 1990)
Funky Strut (Sweet Basil, 1991)
Manteca - Live At
Sweet Basil (Sweet Basil, 1992)
Concierto de Aranjuez (Sweet Basil, 1994)
With
Herbie Mann
With Andrea Marcelli
Beyond The Blue (Art Of Life, 2005)
With
Tania Maria
Intimidade (Blue Note, 2005)
With
Phil Markowitz
With
Hugh Masekela
With Eugene Maslov
With
Paul McCandless
With
Jay McShann
With
Charles Mingus
Me, Myself & Eye - Posthumous recording, Mingus does not play. (Atlantic, 1979)
Something Like a Bird - Posthumous recording, Mingus does not play. (Atlantic, 1980)
With
Bob Mintzer
Bop Boy (Explore Records, 2002)
With
Bob Moses
Bittersuite In The Ozone (Mozown, 1975)
Visit With The Great Spirit (
Gramavision , 1983)
With
Gerry Mulligan
With The
New York Art Quartet
With
Judy Niemack
With
Mike Nock
With
Claus Ogerman
With
Michel Petrucciani
With Marco Pignataro
With
David Pomeranz
Time To Fly (Decca, 1971)
With
Emily Remler
With
Alex Riel
With
Ted Rosenthal
Calling You (CTI Records, 1992)
With Iñaki Sandoval
Miracielos (Bebyne, 2011)
With
Masahiko Satoh
Chagall Blue (Openskye, 1980)
Amorphism (Sony, 1985)
With
Tom Schuman
With
John Scofield
With
Phil Seamen
Phil Seamen Meets Eddie Gómez (Saga, 1968)
With
Ben Sidran
With
Carly Simon
Torch (Warner Bros, 1981)
With Smappies
With
Tommy Smith
Step by Step (Blue Note Records, 1988)
With
David Spinozza
Spinozza (A&M Records, 1978)
With
Spyro Gyra
With
Jeremy Steig
Jeremy & The Satyrs (
Reprise , 1968)
Legwork (Solid State, 1970)
Wayfaring Stranger (Blue Note, 1971)
Energy (Capitol, 1971)
Fusion (
Groove Merchant , 1972) - contains Energy and additional tracks
Monium (Columbia, 1974)
Outlaws (Enja. 1977)
Lend Me Your Ears (CMP, 1978) with
Joe Chambers
Music for Flute & Double-Bass (CMP, 1979)
Rain Forest (CMP, 1980)
Jam (Steig-Gomez Records, 2003)
What's New At F (Tokuma Japan, 2004)
With
Steps Ahead
Step by Step (Better Days, 1980)
Smokin' in the Pit (NYC Records, 1980)
Paradox - Live At
Seventh Avenue South (Better Days, 1982)
Steps Ahead (Elektra Musician, 1983)
Modern Times (Elektra Musician, 1984)
With
Richard Stoltzman
Begin Sweet World (
RCA , 1986)
Brasil (
BMG , 1991)
Hark! (BMG Classics, 1992)
Dreams (RCA, 1995)
Danza Latina (RCA, 1998)
With
Ira Sullivan
With
Martin Taylor
Kiss and Tell (Columbia, 1999)
With The Gadd Gang
The Gadd Gang (A Touch, 1986)
Here & Now (Columbia, 1988)
Live At The Bottom Line (A Touch, 1994)
With
Great Jazz Trio
Moreover (
East Wind , 1980)
The Session / Sleepy Meets The Great Jazz Trio (Next Wave, 1980)
Chapter II (East Wind, 1981)
Re-Visited - The Great Jazz Trio At The Village Vanguard Volume 1 (Eastworld, 1981)
Re-Visited - The Great Jazz Trio At The Village Vanguard Volume 2 (Eastworld, 1981)
Aurex Jazz Festival' 81 / The Great Jazz Trio & Friends With
Nancy Wilson (Eastworld, 1981)
What's New - with Nancy Wilson (
East Wind , 1982)
Threesome (Eastworld, 1982)
The Club New Yorker (Interface, 1983)
Easy To Love: Eri Sings
Cole Porter - with Eri Ohno (Interface, 1984)
Monk's Mood (Denon, 1984)
N.Y. Sophisticate: A Tribute To
Duke Ellington (Denon, 1984)
Ambrosia - with
Art Farmer (Denon/Interface, 1984)
The Great Jazz Trio Standard Collection (Interface, 1986)
The Great Jazz Trio Plays Standard (Somethin' Else, 1998)
With
Eugenio Toussaint
Oinos (Música para beber vino) (Urtext, 2008)
With
Ralph Towner
With
McCoy Tyner
With
Gabriel Vicéns
Point In Time (Self-Released, 2012)
With
Roseanna Vitro
Conviction: Thoughts Of Bill Evans (A-Records, 2001)
With
Bennie Wallace
The Fourteen Bar Blues (Enja Records, 1978)
Live At The Public Theatre (Enja Records, 1978)
The Free Will (Enja Records, 1980)
Mistyc Bridge (Enja Records, 1982)
Twilight Time (Blue Note, 1985)
The Art Of Saxophone (Denon, 1987)
Bordertown (Blue Note, 1988)
Bennie Wallace (AudioQuest Music, 1998)
The Nearness Of You (Enja Records, 2003)
With
Jack Wilkins
With
Larry Willis
With Daniel Wong
Daniel Wong Trio (Fonarte Latino 2014)
References
^
a
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c
d
Yanow, Scott. Allmusic biography of Eddie Gómez. . Retrieved January 26, 2014.
^
a
b
c
d
"Eddie Gomez" . All About Jazz. Archived from
the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2014 .
^
a
b
"Bassist Eddie Gomez Awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree" . Jazztimes.com . Archived from
the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
^ Dan McClenaghan (June 15, 2011).
" "Bill Evans The Sesjun Radio Shows" " . Retrieved October 18, 2020 .
^ Thomas Conrad (April 25, 2019).
"Bill Evans: Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate" . Retrieved October 18, 2020 .
^ Ernest Barteldes (July 7, 2007).
"Bill Evans: The Oslo Concerts" . Retrieved October 19, 2020 .
^ Mark Richardson (April 23, 2016).
"Some Other Time: the Lost Session from the Black Forest" .
Pitchfork . Retrieved October 20, 2020 .
^ Lloyd Sachs (April 25, 2019).
"Bill Evans: Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (Resonance)" . Retrieved October 20, 2020 .
^ DownBeat (January 31, 2017).
"Unreleased Bill Evans Trio Album To Be Released March 24" . Retrieved October 19, 2020 .
^ Mark Smotroff (May 15, 2019).
"Is Resonance Records' "Bill Evans - Evans in England" Official Bootleg An Audiophile Purist Dream?" . Retrieved October 19, 2020 .
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