Zev Katz – Bass

Zev Katz is a New Yorker and a bass player of vast experience. He’s been playing bass with some of the world’s finest musicians for 32 years. His credits are a ‘Who’s who’ of the finest singers, songwriters and composers of the past thirty years. The list is impressive: Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Donald Fagen, Dr John, Suzanne Vega, Ennio Morricone, Elmer Bernstein and, of course, Bryan Ferry and now Roxy Music. He was also heavily featured in the early Bob Mintzer Big Band recordings.

Zev and his family have been living in Battersea, South London while he works the UK side of the Atlantic.

This is the bass part from the tune ‘One Man Band’ from the 1986 Bob Mintzer Big Band album, Camouflage. I was turned on to Mintzer by my first bandleader, Cardiff saxophonist Dick Hamer. Dick gave me my first Jazz gigs and set me off on whatever career I have had since. He has done the same to many other Cardiff musicians including Osian Roberts, Ceiri Torjesson and Julian Martin and many, many more.