Tony Levin anyone?

He wrote some books, haven’t read them but:
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Bass-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511637355&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.com/Crimson-Chro...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=8HENV8XKJB3VMWV0NMRD

 

Have you reached out to him? My experience is that most "great" musicians are just people who would be very happy to talk to you about their path to success as musicians. I love Tony's work, too.

 

Good choice!

 

I second what LBS says. You can probably contact him through his agent and perhaps he might even agree to a personal interview, or at least to answer some questions you may have that you could email him. A suggestion here is that before you approach him directly you do your background research so you don’t duplicate what you’re already able to find by secondary research. You want to really be able to take advantage of an opportunity to ask questions to Mr. Levin directly.

 

I know he's a graduate of the Eastman School Of Music here in Rochester, NY.