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• Professional Experience
• Professional Affiliations And Performances
• Recordings
• Musical Training
• Bass Studies
• Personal Information

Professional Experience

2000, April	Toured Europe with Conference Call, featuring Matt Wilson, and Gebhard Ullmann.
2000, Oct-Nov	Toured Europe with The Fonda Stevens Group, performances in Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, France.
2000, Nov	Performed at the Guimaraes Jazz Festival, Portugal with Joe Fonda and From The Source.
2000, Nov	Performed at the Nuremburg Jazz Festival with percussionist Yogo Pausch.
2001, March	Toured Europe with Conference Call, featuring Han Bennink on drums. Performances in Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria.
2001, April	Toured Europe with The Fonda Stevens Group, performances in Germany, Holland, Austria.
2001, June	Performed at The Vision Festival, New York, New York, with the Billy Bang Project.
2001, June	Performed at The Vision Festival, Washington, DC, with the Billy Bang Trio.
	Co-Producer of the Summers End Music Festival in Middletown, CT. August 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001Present
2001, Aug	Performed with the tap divas, Lynn Dally, Brenda Bufalino at the New York City Tap Festival in the new Duke Theatre, NYC, NY.
1999, Oct+Nov	Toured Europe with the Fonda Stevens Group performances in Holland, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland.
1999, Oct	Performed at Prague International Jazz Festival, with the Fonda/Stevens Group
1999, Aug	Toured Austria in Duo with tap dancer, Brenda Bufalino.
1999, March 9	Performed with tap dancer/choreographer Brenda Bufalino and Company at Town Hall, NYC, NY.
1998, April	Toured Europe with the Fonda/Stevens Group performances in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland.
	Toured Portugal with Carlo Morena, Jeff Hershfield. March & April 1998
1998, Apr+May	Toured Europe with the Fonda Stevens Group performances in Holland, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland.
1997, July	Performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland with the Anthony Braxton Tentet.
1997, April	Toured Europe with the Joe Fonda/Michael Jeffry Stevens Group. Performances in Austria, Germany, Holland, France and Belgium.
1995, Oct	Bassist with the Anthony Braxton Septet. Group performed at the Istanbul Jazz Festival in Turkey.
1994…present	Bassist for Tri-Centric Orchestra. Directed by Anthony Braxton.
1994, Sep+Oct	Bassist with the Anthony Braxton Sextet. Group toured Europe.
1991, Apr+May	Bassist with the Michael Rabinowitz Quartet. Group toured Spain.
1990…present	Bassist for the American Tap Dance Orchestra. Directed by Brenda Buffalino.
1990, Apr+May	Bassist with the Greg Lions Quartet. Group toured Spain.
1982, April	Bassist, Actor for Fred Ho's Jazz and Peking Opera. Premiere performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
1982…present	Founding Member and President of Kaleidoscope Arts. Musical Director of Kaleidoscope's interdisciplinary performing ensemble.
1980…1988	Member of the Creative Musicians Improvisers Forum 19801988 and Orchestra. Directed by Leo Smith.
1975…present	Organizer and Producer of the Joe Fonda Ensemble. Ensemble has performed throughout the United States. Composer and ensemble have received many grants from Meet the Composer Foundation. Recordings and reviews available.
1982…1985	Musician and Dancer with the renowned Sonomama Dance Company.
1984–1985	Program Coordinator, The Russell Library, Middletown, Connecticut. Organized a series of Meet the Composer concerts.
1979…1981	Music Instructor - Hartford Artists Collective. Artistic Director: Jackie Mc Clean. Private instruction in bass; eveloped and directed a Youth Ensemble; class and private instruction in Music Theory.
1978–1979	Program Coordinator, Springfield Library and Museum Association. With grants from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Springfield Library and Museum Association, set up series of Music and Dance Performances.
	Composer, Music Director for the play "Lenny Bruce," presented by the City Studio Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts under the direction of Mark Cuddy.

Professional Affiliations And Performances [ back to Paragraphs ]

Anthony Braxton Mosaic Sextet
Ken Mcintyre/Lou Donaldson Majeed Greenlee Quartet
Archie Shepp/Charlie Persip Art Matthews Trio
Marion Brown Leo Smith and New Delta
Perry Robinson Bill Barron/Kenny Barron
Mark Whitecage Bill Lowe/Andy Jaffey Big Band
Mike Kindereds and Barry Altschul
Shake Down Barney Kessel
Up From the Sky, featuring Herb Ellis
Tony Purrone Tom Varner Quartet
Steven McCraven Chico Hamilton Quartet
Ray Copeland Curtis Fuller
Bobby Naughton Unit Carla Bley
Bill Dixon Quartet Slide Hampton
Kenny Johnson and Blues Carlo Patato Veldez
with a Feeling Teddy Charles
Sweet Daddy Cool Breeze Creative Musicians Improvisers Orchestra
Billy Bang Trio Kunle Mwanga Quartet
Dave Douglas Han Benick
Kevin Norton Ensemble

Recordings [ back to Paragraphs ]

Fonda/Stevens Group, Live at the Bunker, Leo Records
Joe Fonda-Xu Fengxia, Distance, Leo Records
Joe Fonda, Carlo Morena, Jeff Hirshfield, Next Step, Dewerf Records
Conference Call, Final Answer, Soul Note Records
The Mosaic Sextet, GM Record
When It's Time Solo Bass Recording, Jazz Halo Records
Fonda Stevens Group Live in Brugge, Dewerf Records
Fonda Stevens Group Evaluation, Leo Records
Joe Fonda Quintet, Full Circle Suit, CIMP Records
The Kevin Norton Ensemble, For Guy Debord, Barking Hoop Records
Mark Whitecagešs Other Quartet, CIMP Records
Scott Miller-Joe Fonda, Bottoms Out, Cadence Records
Kevin Norton, Ensemble Knots, Music and Arts
Sweet Daddy Cool Breeze Live in France, Kaleidoscope Records
Anthony Braxton Tentet, Knitting Factory, 1997, Braxton House Records
Leo Smith, Procession of Great Ancestry, Chief Records
Anthony Braxton Sextet, Istanbul, 1996
Anthony Braxton o Joe Fonda Duo, 10 Compositions, 1995
Joe Fonda, Carlo Morena, Jeff Hirshfield, What We're Hearing, Dewerf Records
Joe Fonda o Michael Jefry Stevens, Group Parallel Lines, Music and Arts
Joe Fonda and From the Source featuring Tap Dancers Brenda Bufalino, Konnex Records
Anthony Braxton Piano Project, Leo Records
Anthony Braxton Orchestra Composition No. 173, Black Saint Label
Joe Fonda, Michael Stevens Group, The Wish, Music and Arts Label
Sweet Daddy Cool Breeze, Don't Pass Me By, Kaleidoscope Records
Mosaic Sextet, Today This Moment, Knox Records
Anthony Braxton, The Music of Charlie Parker, Hat Hut Records
David Bindman o Tyron Henderson, Straw Man Dance, Knox Records
Up From the Sky, featuring Tony Purrone and Steven McCraven, Kaleidoscope Records
Joe Fonda Ensemble, Looking for the Lake, Alacra Records
Bev Rollar o Marion Groves, Sweet Water Records
Creative Musicians Improvisers Orchestra, The Sky Cries the Blues, C.M.I.F Records
Valley Big Band, Lightning, V.B. Records
Mark Whitecage and Liquid Time, Acoustic Records
Anthony Braxton, Octet New York 1995, Braxtonhouse Records
Anthony Braxton, Trillium R, Braxtonhouse Records
Anthony Braxton Ensemble, New York 1995, Braxtonhouse Records
Anthony Braxton, Four Compositions Washington, DC 1998, Braxtonhouse Records
Anthony Braxton, Small Ensembles, 1994, Splasch Records

Musical Training [ back to Paragraphs ]

Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, 1973–1975
Studied composing and arranging

Bass Studies [ back to Paragraphs ]

Professor John Rappucci, Boston 1973–1975
George Mraz, Zollar School of Music 1975

Personal Information [ back to Paragraphs ]

Joe Fonda ( born in Amsterdam, NY, on December 16, 1954 )
407 Amsterdam Avenue, #55
New York City, New York 10024
Email fonda@midtel.net
Phone: (212) 780-3432
Fax: (518) 287-1409
Website: http://www.joefonda.digitalspace.net/

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