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Tom Kennedy On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Tom Kennedy // Kongsberg Jazzfestival // Mike Stern and Randy Brecker // 2018-07-07 22:23:27 // Kongsberg, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway (NOR) /

Tom Kennedy 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 #79 – Tom Kennedy.

Who is Tom Kennedy?

When I first started playing the electric bass in my early teens, the drumming of Dave Weckl always amazed and inspired me. When I think of Weckl, I often think of John Patitucci… and I always think of Tom Kennedy. In 1998, Tom became an integral part of Modern Drummer hall of famer, Dave Weckl’s band, a group he toured, composed and recorded with for over nine years. Tom and Dave have continued to perform and record together on various projects for other artists, including Mike Stern, Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour. Tom is an accomplished touring and studio musician who ranks as one of the top acoustic and electric bass players in the world. His credits include performances and recordings with both mainstream legends and leading contemporary players. He started playing the acoustic bass at age nine (not a typo) and added the electric bass to his arsenal at seventeen years of age. When he was hardly a teen, he was already performing with players like Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, Nat Adderley, and many more. Tom has also performed and recorded with artists like Simon Phillips, Steve Gadd, Frank Gambale, Steve Lukather, David Sanborn, and fusion band, Planet X. He has released over five solo albums, including his latest, Stories (that features Dave Weckl). Enjoy the conversation…

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.

Listen in: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #79 – Tom Kennedy.

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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.