BOB MAMET
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Hard Bop • United States

Bob Mamet is an internationally acclaimed Jazz pianist and composer. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the prestigious Peabody Conservatory before heading west to Los Angeles to begin a career as a composer and studio musician. Over the next several years, he composed music for over a hundred projects in T.V. film, and advertising in addition to touring as bandleader and accompaniest. Bob's distinctive mixture of Jazz styles and composition caught the ear of the major record labels, and in 1994 he signed with Atlantic Records. Bob recorded three highly successful albums for Atlantic, plus additional recordings for Sony and Warner Brothers. His collaborations with artists such as Alex Acuna, Larry Carlton, Eric Marienthal, Gerald Albright, David Benoit and many other top artists led Jazziz Magazine to proclaim Bob as a "brilliant composer" who gives his players "an intelligent, thoughtful, and vibrant musical landscape in which to read more...