Rob Palmer is a freelance bass player and Jazz promoter based in Felixstowe, Suffolk.
(Actually, as impressive as that sounds, he is actually a very small potato and has hardly recorded with anyone for about 30 years. Most of the big names he has played with he pays to play with him, normally with other people’s money – it’s all smoke and mirrors really)
As house bass player with Jazz East at The Alex in Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK, Rob has performed with a range of musicians including John Etheridge (Soft Machine, Stephane Grappelli), Jim Mullen (Average White Band, Morrisey Mullen), Christine Tobin. Phil Robson, John Parricelli, Steve Fishwick, Martin Speake (ECM recording artist, Paul Motian, Itchy Fingers), Tim Whitehead (Loose Tubes), Art Themen, Toni Kofi (World Saxophone Quartet), Gilad Atzmon, Nigel Price, Vasilis Xenopoulos, Gareth Lockrane, Julian Siegel, Iain Ballamy, Stan Sultzman, Ross Lardner, Lewis Wright ( Empirical), Simon Spillett, Steve Waterman, Robin Jones and Ben Holder. His ambition is to play with one of these guys twice.
More regularly, Rob plays with East Anglia musicians Tim Ainslee (Swagger, Tim Ainslee and The Vibes), Chris Ingham (Hunter Club, Jazz At The Movies), Simon Brown (Norwich Jazz) Zak Barrett (Chelmsford Jazz) and George Double (Hadleigh Jazz/Southwold Jazz). Historically (VERY historically), he has recorded or performed with Grant Nicholas (Feeder), Brian Sperber (producer/engineer Moby, Blues Traveler, Whitney Houston, Ric Ocasek), Richard Bailey (Jeff Beck, Snowy White, Incognito), Andy Fernbach, Roy WIlliams, Lee Goodall, Dylan Fowler, Janusz Carmello, Hank Shaw, Nick Page, Sara Mistri, No Quarter (NWOBHM), Welsh Prog rock band ‘Multi Story’ (2020 cd ‘CBF10’), Gareth Lumbars (Haircut 100), Julian Bown (Nik Kershaw), Also Eden, Steve Roberts (Godsticks, The Tangent), Julian Martin (pianist/educator/film music composer), Osian Roberts, Ceiri Torjussen (film music arranger and composer: Blade, The Day After Tomorrow, Terminator etc) and Emmy Award winning composer, Martin ‘ Brollyman’ Ward. Rob is also an award winning author of ‘Mr. P.C: the life and music of Paul Chambers (Equinox Publishing).
