Lincoln Goines – Bass

At the risk of repeating myself, a mainstay of the New York City jazz/Latin/studio scene since the early 1980s, Goines’ career includes performance credits as sideman to Sonny Rollins, Paquito D’Rivera, Michel Camilo, Mike Stern, and Carly Simon. He is also an educator and author, having written “Funkifying The Clave: Afro-Cuban Grooves for Bass and Drums” with drummer Robby Ameen/Alfred Publishing 1996.

Goines attended high school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where he studied double bass with a former principal bassist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Keats. During this period of his development he also had lessons with Eddie Gómez and Gary Karr.

Goines’ performance/touring credits include three decades as bassist for Latin jazz flutist and bandleader Dave Valentin, and a 20-year tenure with guitarist Mike Stern.

In 1986, Goines joined the faculty at The Collective in New York City and in 2008 became a professor of Bass at the Berklee College of Music.

Another track from the 1999 Mike Stern album, ‘Play’. A very easy read, one of these things that most of us could play on day one if we know where the notes are on the neck.