Artist:Eddie Gomez
Song:Homesick
Album:Per Sempre
Eddie Gomez is best known as bassist for legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans. Though he has occasionally recorded as a leader, he is mainly known as a sideman. He was born Oct. 4, 1944 in Santurce, Puerto Rico but he grew up in New York City. Gomez started playing bass as a teen. He attended the High School of Music & Art and was in the Newport Festival Youth Band. After graduating from Juilliard in 1963, Gomez played with Rufus Jones, Marian McPartland, Paul Bley, Gerry Mulligan and Gary McFarland. He joined Bill Evans' trio in 1966 and remained until 1977 shortly before Evans' death. Gomez was very important in bringing Evans back from what seemed like terminal depression after Evans' previous bassist Scott LaFaro died tragically in a car crash. After Evans' death, Gomez was in the bands Steps Ahead, Manhattan Jazz Quintet and Great Jazz Trio and played with Joanne Brackeen, Jack DeJohnette, Eliane Elias and Chick Corea. Gomez first recorded as a leader in 1976. In the late 80s he recorded three albums for Columbia with guys like Michael Brecker, Jeremy Steig and Steve Gadd. Since then he has recorded for various labels. Homesick is from the 2012 album Per Sempre on BFM Jazz with Varese distribution. Gomez recorded it in Italy with Italian musicians. The main guy seems to be Marco Pignataro on soprano and tenor sax. He wrote Homesick. Gomez appeared on Pignataro's 2011 album Sofia's Heart. Other musicians are Teo Ciavarella on piano, Matt Marvuglio on flute and Massimo Manzi on drums. Gomez played some shows with this band. Most recently Gomez has worked a lot with pianist Mark Kramer. Here's Eddie Gomez with Marco Pignataro on tenor sax, Mike Orta on piano and Carlomagno Araya on drums performing Homesick.
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