Biography
Jeffrey Allen Ament (born March 10, 1963) is an American musician best known as the bassist of rock band Pearl Jam, which he co-founded alongside Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder. Ament wrote or co-wrote many of Pearl Jam's hits, including "Jeremy", "Oceans", "Dissident", "Nothingman" and "Nothing as It Seems". Prior to his work with Pearl Jam, Ament was part of the 1980s Seattle-based grunge rock bands Green River, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog and Three Fish. He is known particularly for playing with the fretless bass, upright bass, and twelve-string bass guitars. Ament is also a member of the band RNDM. In 2008, Ament released his first solo album Tone. His second solo release, While My Heart Beats, followed in 2012, and his third in 2018: Heaven/Hell. Ament was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pearl Jam on April 7, 2017. He was also recognized as one of the top hard rock and metal bassists of all time by Loudwire in 2016, placing at #52 on the list.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Ten
1991
Vs.
1993
Superunknown
1994
Vitalogy
1994
Temple Of The Dog
1991
Yield
1998
No Code
1996
Singles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1992
Binaural
2000
Dark Matter
2024
Lightning Bolt
2013
Pearl Jam
2006
MTV Unplugged
2019
Judgment Night (Music From The Motion Picture)
1993
Riot Act
2002
Live On Two Legs
1998
Backspacer
2009
Mirror Ball
1995
Apple
1990
Gigaton
2020
Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003)
2004
Give Way
1998
Lost Dogs
2003
Chris Cornell
2018
Credited work
2,628 releases · 258 albums · active 1983–2026
- Other credits · 4,646
- Performance · 3,956
- Production · 33
- Engineering · 25
Studios: London Bridge Studio · Studio Litho · Bad Animals · Ridge Farm Studios