My new favorite - Etienne Mbappe?

You can run a search on recordings done by any musician, sidemen included, at www.bn.com.

If you can excuse my sloppy posting, here's Mbappe's link.


http://music.barnesandnoble.com/sea...393694018367477368&bfdate=07-13-2003+21:36:20




The same can be done at the following, but I didn't look.

http://www.allmusic.com/

 

Didn't he do some stuff with Jean Luc Ponty?

 

M'bappe was a member of the incredible french fusion band "Ultramarine", their records are OOP, and very difficult to find, but is worth looking, specially one called "De".Also another great recording is one calle"Chic Hot", with some of the same members as Ultramarine.Great Recording.I agree, this guy is incredible!.Him and other incredible Paris based bass players like Michel Alibo(Sixun), Guy N'sangue(Ponty) and Linley Marthe(current Zawinul's bass player) are really good and share a similar approach to bass playing, quite original.All these guys work and record in the african pop-jazz-funk scene of Paris.Same scene where Richard Bona comes from.Bona, M'bappe and N'sangue are from Camerun and play together in a bass trio every once in a while.Alibo is from Martinique and Marthe is from the Mauritius Islands.All of them Amazing Players!.

 

here's a link to his biography and some additional info:
http://www.enzoproductions.com/english_biographieetienne.htm

 

Another guy I like is the guy who played--or still does for all I know--with Youssou N'Dour. I think his name is Habib Faye. he would be Senegalese, I guess.

 

Etienne M'bappe 's Ultramarine cds on amazon.fr
ULTRAMARINE
Items #5 n #6 are not available(actuellement indisponible)
Hope this was some help!


larry

 

Arggggghhhh!!!!

The Ultramarine link doesn't work.
Sorry! go on AMAZON.FR
And do the ultramarine search...yourself!!!

larry

 

Etienne is a fantastic bass player. I saw him in Austria with Zawinul. The sound he gets playing the bass with his gloves is amazing. It sounds like a fretless.