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Artist
Jon Liebman
12+ albums
about
Jon Liebman is a world-renowned, award-winning bassist, composer, arranger, author and educator. He has played electric and acoustic bass in every imaginable setting, from jazz gigs and club dates to full-scale concerts and nationally broadcast radio and TV shows. Jon has performed in many of the world’s major concert venues, including New York’s Madison Square Garden, LA’s Shrine Auditorium and Tokyo’s spectacular Suntory Hall (not to mention bull rings in Central America, amphitheaters in the Caribbean and all kinds of “off-beat” settings across the globe). Throughout the course of a career that began over thirty years ago, Jon has performed and/or toured with a wide range of musical acts, including: Amy Grant, Cleo Laine, Buddy DeFranco, Billy Eckstein, Eartha Kitt, The Drifters, The Platters, The Coasters, The Chiffons, The Ink Spots, The Fifth Dimension, Julio Iglesias, Jose Feliciano, Chita Rivera, Theodore Bikel and countless others. Liebman has performed in the pit orchestras of many Broadway shows, including Dreamgirls, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Golden Boy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Annie and many others. He’s also supplied the bass tracks for major recording projects for clients which have included Ford, GM and the NBA. Jon has written five books for Hal Leonard Corporation: FUNK BASS, FUNK/FUSION BASS, ROCK BASS, BLUES BASS and his newest release, BASS