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Lonnie Plaxico (born September 4, 1960) is an American jazz double bassist.




Biography


Plaxico was born in Chicago, into a musical family, and started playing the bass at the age of twelve, turning professional at fourteen (playing both double bass and bass guitar). His first recording was with his family's band, and by the time he was twenty he had moved to New York City, where he had stints playing with Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Junior Cook, and Hank Jones. He won the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award in 1978.
Plaxico first came to public attention through his work with the Wynton Marsalis group in 1982, though his first regular attachment was with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1983–86), with whom he recorded twelve albums.
In the mid-1980s Plaxico joined the M-Base collective and played on the debut-releases of Steve Coleman (Motherland Pulse, 1985), Cassandra Wilson (Point of View, 1986) and Greg Osby (Sound Theatre, 1987). On Wilson's recordings he appeared regularly ever since and is the musical director and first bassist of her tour band for more than 15 years.
In 1986 Jack DeJohnette reformed his Special Edition and engaged beside guitarist Mick Goodrick the M-Base saxophonists Greg Osby and Gary Thomas and Plaxico on bass. The band existed until 1993, after three albums with pianist Michael Cain replacing Goodrick on the last.
Plaxico has also performed and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, David Murray, Alice Coltrane, Stanley Turrentine, Andrew Hill, Joe Sample, Abbey Lincoln, Bill Cosby, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ravi Coltrane, Scott Tixier, Barbara Dennerlein, Helen Sung and Nina Vidal.




Discography






= As leader

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1989: Plaxico (Muse)
1990: Iridescence (Muse)
1992: Short Takes (Muse)
1993: With All Your Heart (Muse)
2000: Emergence (Savant)
2001: Mélange (Blue Note)
2002: Live at the 5:01 Jazz Bar (Orchard, Plaxmusic)
2003: Rhythm and Soul (Sirocco Jazz)
2004: Live at Jazz Standard (Village, Japan)
2006: So Alive (Eighty-Eight's)
2006: West Side Stories (Plaxmusic)
2007: Live at the Zinc Bar NYC (Plaxmusic)
2009: Ancestral Devotion (Plaxmusic)




= As sideman

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With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Aurex Jazz Festival (Eastworld, 1983)
New York Scene (Concord, 1984)
Blue Night (Timeless, 1985)
Live at Sweet Basil (Paddle Wheel, 1985)
Live at Kimball's (Concord, 1985)
Live at Ronnie Scott's (Wadham, 1985)
Hard Champion (Paddle Wheel, 1985)
Farewell (Paddle Wheel, 1985)
New Year's Eve at Sweet Basil (King/ProJazz, 1985)
Dr. Jeckyle - Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2 (ProJazz, 1985)
With Cindy Blackman

Code Red (Muse, 1990 [1992])
With Cecil Brooks III

The Collective (Muse, 1989)
Smokin' Jazz (Muse, 1996)
With Steve Coleman

Motherland Pulse (JMT, 1985)
Five Elements, Sine Die (Pangaea, 1988)
With Ravi Coltrane

Moving Pictures (RCA/BMG, 1998)
With Robin Eubanks

Karma (JMT, 1991)
With Dizzy Gillespie

New Faces (GRP, 1985)
With Bunky Green

Another Place (Label Bleu, 2004 [2006])
With Cassandra Wilson

Point of View (JMT, 1986)
Blue Skies (JMT, 1988)
Jumpworld (JMT, 1990)
Blue Light 'til Dawn (Blue Note, 1993)
New Moon Daughter (Blue Note, 1995)
Rendezvous (Blue Note, 1997), with Jacky Terrasson
Traveling Miles (Blue Note, 1999)
Loverly (Blue Note, 2008)
Coming Forth by Day (Legacy, 2015)
5 Original Albums (Blute Note, 2018)
With Greg Osby

Greg Osby and Sound Theatre (JMT, 1987)
Mindgames (JMT, 1988)
Season of Renewal (JMT, 1990)
Zero (Blue Note, 1998)
With Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition

Irresistible Forces (Impulse!/MCA, 1987)
Audio-Visualscapes (Impulse!/MCA, 1988)
Earthwalk (Blue Note, 1991)
With Ron Jackson

A Guitar Thing You (Muse, 1991)
Thinking of You (Muse, 1993)
With Don Byron

Tuskegee Experiments (Nonesuch, 1992)
Ivey-Divey (Blue Note, 2004)
With Bud Shank

I Told You So (Candid, 1992)
With Carola Grey

Noisy Mama (Jazzline, 1992)
With Lafayette Harris

Lafayette Is Here (Muse, 1993)
With Hannibal Marvin Peterson

One with the Wind (Muse, 1993)
With Gust Tsilis

Wood Music (Enja, 1993)
With Regina Carter

Regina Carter (Atlantic, 1995)
With Talib Kibwe

Introducing Talib Kibwe (Evidence, 1996)
With Barbara Dennerlein

Take Off! (Verve, 1995)
With Jean-Paul Bourelly, Harry Sokal, and Ronnie Burrage

Mag Five (PAO, 1998)
With LaMont Johnson

241 East 3rd St. (Orchard, 1998)
With Ray Anderson

Lapis Lazuli Band, Funkorific (Enja, 1998)
With Mark Ledford

Miles to Go (Verve Forecast, 1998)
With Ravi Coltrane

Moving Pictures (RCA, 1998)
With Jason Moran

Soundtrack to Human Motion (Blue Note, 1999)
With Teri Thornton

I'll Be Easy to Find (Verve, 1999)
With Bunky Green

Another Place (Label Bleu, 2006)
With Brian Landrus

Traverse (BlueLand, 2012)
With Yukiko Onishi aka Yucco Miller

Yucco Miller (King, 2016)




References






External links


Carr, Ian, Digby Fairweather, & Brian Priestley. Jazz: The Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-528-3
Plaxico's Web site
Lonnie Plaxico on Allmusic
Brief bio by Chris Parker for the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club pages
Interview with Plaxico for 441 Records

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