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John Webber | |
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| Birth name | John Robert Webber |
| Born | August 5, 1965 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instruments | Double bass |
John Robert Webber (born August 5, 1965) is an American jazz double-bassist.
Webber was born in St. Louis. He first learned to play bass guitar before switching to stand-up bass at age 15. He attended Northern Illinois University and Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he worked with Von Freeman and Brad Goode.
Webber relocated to New York City in 1987 and played with Bill Hardman, Junior Cook, Tardo Hammer, John Marshall, and Michael Weiss before the end of the decade. In the 1990s he played with Christopher Hollyday, Johnny Griffin, Jimmy Cobb, Lou Donaldson, David Hazeltine, Diana Krall, Annie Ross, Mike LeDonne, Peter Bernstein, Eric Alexander, Chris Flory, Doug Lawrence, Etta Jones, Jim Rotondi, Ryan Kisor, and Horace Silver.
With Eric Alexander
With Etta Jones
With Harold Mabern
With Cecil Payne
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