James Robert Haslip (born December 31, 1951) is an American bass guitarist who was a founding member of the jazz fusion group the Yellowjackets, [1] which he left in 2012. He was also an early user of the five-string electric bass.

Welcome to the new official Jimmy Haslip web site. Stay up to date on the current and future touring performance schedules, what artists I am recording with, and what music I'm producing. Within these pages you'll find performance galleries as well as a …

Jimmy Haslip was born December 31st, 1951 in the Bronx, New York. He grew up in Huntington, Long Island. In 1963 at the age of 13, he became interested in electric bass and has now been playing for 47+ years.

2025年2月20日 · For the past several years, former Yellowjackets bassist and prolific producer Jimmy Haslip has enjoyed an ongoing working relationship with the Bremen, Germany-based jazz fusion keyboardist and composer Michael Schmidt (aka MSM Schmidt).

2021年3月22日 · Not only does he play a left-handed bass guitar, he strings it upside-down – in other words, his low B string is physically lower than his high C. Add to this his phenomenal ability when it comes to fast soloing, and your brain ends up tied in knots.

Jimmy Haslip was born in New York, NY in 1951. He is one the top electric bass players in the world, as evidenced by his artist associations below, and is the founder and player for the fusion group Yellowjackets. He is also a composer, instructor, and record producer. Before taking on the bass guitar, Jimmy played the trumpet in school.

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2010年9月6日 · New York native Jimmy Haslip began playing the bass as a teenager, mostly self-taught. Perhaps best known as a founding member and bass player of the Yellowjackets, Jimmy has also performed, recorded and/or toured with an extremely long and diverse list of musicians that reads like a who’s who of 20th and 21st century culture.

2016年1月7日 · Tales with electric bassist/composer/arranger/producer, Jimmy Haslip. Back in August while playing with Michael and the band in Los Angeles, I had an excellent opportunity to invite this extraordinarily talented and humble gentleman to do an episode of Tales. We conducted the interview backstage after the show.

2021年8月16日 · Jimmy Haslip is a true musician’s musician with a career filled with hundreds of recording dates and live sound events that date back to his teen years. Perhaps best known as an original member of the Yellowjackets, Jimmy grew up in Long Island, NY and was exposed to nearly every style of music and took that knowledge in hand while creating ...