Produced by top musicians Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuña, Don Grusin, Ernie Watts, Lee Ritenour, and Steve Forman. Friendship Jazz funk album by.Released in 1979.
Abraham Laboriel is a Mexican bassist born on July 17, 1947 in Mexico City.
He is also the founder of the band Koinonia.
His early musical education came from his father, who was a guitarist and composer.
At the age of 10, he made his first recording experience with a rock’n’roll group called “Los Traviesos”.
During his teens, he worked as both a musician and an actor in Mexico, before moving to Boston and enrolling at Berklee College of Music.
Earned a bachelor’s degree in composition in 1972.While attending the school, he also performed with vibraphonist Gary Burton, a faculty member at the school.
He then toured with artists such as Johnny Mathis, Michel Legrand, and Henry Mancini, before moving to Los Angeles in 1976 and beginning a multi-genre studio recording career.
He has performed and recorded with numerous jazz artists, including George Benson, Larry Carlton, The Crusaders, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Grusin, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Al Jarreau, John Kremer, the Manhattan Transfer, Joe Pass, Joe Sample, Lalo Schifrin, Diane Schur, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Zawinul, and others.
He also recorded with the band Friendship with Lee Ritenour, Ernie Watts, and Alex Acuna, and continues to perform and record with Lee and Dave Grusin, releasing works on GRP Records.
Additionally, he was a sought-after bassist and was sought after by countless artists, including Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Jeffrey Osbourne, Chaka Khan, Robbie Robertson, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Loggins, and Ruben Blades.
For the third year in a row, he was voted ``Most Valuable Player in the bass category’’ by members of the Los Angeles Grammy Awards Organizing Association (NARAS), placing him second only to Ray Brown and Chuck Domannico.
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