Melvin Gibbs

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Melvin Gibbs is an American bass guitarist who has appeared on close to 200 albums in diverse genres of music.[1][2] Among others, Gibbs is known for working in jazz with drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson[3] and guitarist Sonny Sharrock,[1] and in rock music with Rollins Band[4] and Arto Lindsay.[5] He is a member of Harriet Tubman,[6] with whom he was included in the New York Times' best performances of 2017,[7] and Body Meπa, recognized in Bandcamp Daily's best experimental music of 2024.[8]

Career

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Gibbs in a July 1980 performance in Paris, France

A native of Brooklyn, New York,[9] Gibbs attended Medgar Evers College[1] and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.[10] Gibbs first came to public notice as a member of the group Defunkt, which was a mainstay of the early 1980s downtown New York scene.[1] Throughout the 1980s, he played in drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, with guitarist Vernon Reid,[11] and with guitarist Sonny Sharrock[12] and saxophonist John Zorn.[13][14] With Jackson and guitarist Bill Frisell he was a member of the group Power Tools.[15] Gibbs co-led the band Eye and I with D.K. Dyson who also co-founded the Black Rock Coalition of which he is an original member.[9]

Gibbs took on the role of record producer while with the Rollins Band in the 1990s. He worked in that capacity, producing records for other artists on Rage Records.[16]

He was a member of the avant-metal Rollins Band from 1993 to about 1998 and again in 2006 when the group briefly reformed. As a member of the Rollins Band, he performed at Woodstock '94 in 1994[4] and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1995.[17] Gibbs has also recorded with hip-hop duo Dead Prez,[18] Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso[2] and Marisa Monte,[19] Latin jazz musician Eddie Palmieri,[2] Nigerian musician Femi Kuti,[1] and guitarist Marc Ribot.[20] He has produced albums by turntablist DJ Logic[21] and guitarist Arto Lindsay, who has referred to Gibbs as his "closest collaborator."[22]

Gibbs formed the Punk-Funk All-Stars with James Blood Ulmer, Defunkt leader Joseph Bowie, Vernon Reid and Ronald Shannon Jackson.[23] In 1998, Gibbs, guitarist Brandon Ross, and drummer J.T. Lewis formed the trio Harriet Tubman.[24]

Ancients Speak, the first album by Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity, was released on March 17, 2009, by Livewired Music. In 2009, he joined the group SociaLybrium with Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic, DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, and J.T. Lewis. The group's album, For You/For Us/For All was released by Livewired in December 2009.

Gibbs' other projects include Melvin Runs the Hoodoo Down with guitarist Pete Cosey and keyboard player John Medeski;[1] the Geechee Seminoles with percussionist David Pleasant;[25] Zig Zag Power Trio with guitarist Vernon Reid and drummer Will Calhoun;[1] God Particle with cosmologist/saxophonist Stephon Alexander, David Pleasant, and other musicians;[26] and Melvin Gibbs Magnum.[27]

Discography

As leader

Year Artist Title Label
2009 Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity Ancients Speak[28] LiveWired
2011 Melvin Gibbs Phree-dem downloads
2021 Melvin Gibbs 4 + 1 equals 5 for May 25
2022 Melvin Gibbs Anamibia Sessions Vol. 1: The Wave[29] Editions Mego

As co-leader

Year Artist Title Label Personnel
1987 Power Tools Strange Meeting Antilles New Directions Gibbs, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bill Frisell
1998 Harriet Tubman I Am a Man[30] SlaveNo Mo'/Knitting Factory Gibbs, Brandon Ross, J.T. Lewis
2000 Harriet Tubman Prototype Avant Gibbs, Ross, Lewis
2004 Sharp / Gibbs / Carter Raw Meet Intakt Gibbs, Elliott Sharp, Lance Carter
2010 Socialybrium For You – For Us – For All LiveWired Gibbs, Bernie Worrell, DeWayne McKnight, Lewis
2011 Harriet Tubman Ascension Sunnyside Gibbs, Ross, Lewis
2013 Sharp / Gibbs / Niggli Crossing the Waters Intakt Gibbs, Sharp, Template:Interlanguage link
2017 Harriet Tubman Araminta Sunnyside Gibbs, Ross, Lewis
2018 Zig Zag Power Trio Woodstock Sessions' Woodstock Sessions Gibbs, Vernon Reid, Will Calhoun
2018 Harriet Tubman The Terror End of Beauty[24][31] Sunnyside Gibbs, Ross, Lewis
2021 Body Meπa The Work Is Slow[32] Hausu Mountain Gibbs, Greg Fox, Sasha Frere-Jones, Grey Mcmurray
2024 Body Meπa Prayer in Dub[8] Hausu Mountain Gibbs, Fox, Frere-Jones, Mcmurray

Singles

  • 2011 "E-volution" single (rereleased later, Melvin Gibbs via bandcamp)
  • 2011 Lucent Steps: Ascension Remix single (Melvin Gibbs via bandcamp)
  • 2013 "Still Dreamin'" single (rereleased later, Melvin Gibbs via bandcamp)
  • 2020 "Holy Ground: 38th and Chicago – initial thoughts" single (Melvin Gibbs via bandcamp)
  • 2021 "It's Been a Long Time Coming" single (Melvin Gibbs via bandcamp)
  • 2021 FlyBoy's Bardo EZ Pass single (Melvin Gibbs via bandcamp)

As sideman

With Defunkt

  • 1980 Defunkt
  • 1994 Live & Reunified
  • 2005 Defunkt/Thermonuclear Sweat

With Rollins Band

With Jean-Paul Bourelly

  • 1994 Saints & Sinners
  • 1997 Fade to Cacophony: Live
  • 2002 Trance Atlantic

With DJ Logic

  • 1999 Project Logic
  • 2001 The Anomaly
  • 2006 Zen of Logic

With Ronald Shannon Jackson

With Arto Lindsay

  • 1995 Aggregates 1-26
  • 1996 Mundo Civilizado
  • 1996 Subtle Body
  • 1998 Noon Chill
  • 1999 Prize
  • 2000 Ecomixes
  • 2002 Invoke
  • 2004 Salt
  • 2014 Encyclopedia of Arto
  • 2017 Cuidado Madame

With Marisa Monte

  • 1991 Mais
  • 1996 Barulhinho Bom (A Great Noise)[33]

With Sonny Sharrock

With Moreno Veloso

  • 2001 Music Typewriter
  • 2014 Coisa Boa

With Vitamin C

  • 1999 Vitamin C
  • 2000 More

With John Zorn

With others

References

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