Bruce Hampton
Biography
Bruce Hampton (born Gustav Valentine Berglund III; April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017) was an American musician. He was a key figure in the Atlanta music scene, mentoring numerous other musicians who became national stars. His own musical style was avant-garde, combining elements of jazz, fusion, southern rock, and jam band styles. He first rose to prominence as the leader of the Hampton Grease Band. Adopting the moniker Colonel Hampton B. Coles, Retired or alternatively Col. Bruce Hampton Ret., and sometimes playing a sort of dwarf guitar called a "chazoid", he later formed several other bands, some of whose names include The Late Bronze Age, The Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Fiji Mariners, The Codetalkers, The Quark Alliance, Pharaoh Gummitt, and Madrid Express.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
89 releases · 27 albums · active 1971–2024
- Performance · 180
- Other credits · 49
- Production · 4
Studios: The Magic Shop · Bearsville Studios · Shacklyn · Turtle Tone Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Widespread Panic
- The Late Bronze Age
- The Codetalkers
- Susan Tedeschi
- Francis Vincent Zappa
- Monte Mills
- Medeski Martin And Wood