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Jimmy Haslip On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Jimmy Haslip is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #51 – Jimmy Haslip.

Who is Jimmy Haslip?

The world of electric bass is filled with creative and iconic players. It also features some who are unique in different ways. Jimmy Haslip fits this bill. He started playing the bass in the early 1960s and has been playing (non-stop and progressively more) for close to fifty years. He is also a lefty who plays with a right-handed bass turned upside down. In the late seventies, he met famed guitarist Robben Ford and keyboardist Russell Ferrante. They recorded Robben’s first solo recording, The Inside Story, and Jimmy still works with Robben to this day. That album led to the formation of the Yellowjackets, and in 1980 they recorded their debut album. The Yellowjackets are still at it with over twenty albums, and this has garnered Jimmy two Grammys and close to twenty additional Grammy nominations. Jimmy is busy well beyond the Yellowjackets. He’s also got a long list of production duties as a composer. Jimmy most recently released albums with multi-instrumentalist Cody Carpenter, keyboardist Scott Wilkie (with guitarist/vocalist Kleber Jorge and drummer Jeff Olson), Elemental (with keyboardist Otmaro Ruiz and drummer Jimmy Branly), and the ARC Trio (with keyboardist Scott Kinsey, and drummer Gergö Borlai). He never stops and his story is an incredible. Enjoy the conversation…

Listen in: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #51 – Jimmy Haslip

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.