Michael Manring

Building on the playing of his teacher, the late bass legend Jaco Pastorius, Michael has pioneered an entirely unique approach to performing on the instrument that includes unorthodox tunings, techniques, and ground-breaking concepts. Michael has completely redefined the role of the electric bass as a solo instrument through his virtuoso technical innovations. Michael seamlessly blends all of the modern bass techniques including traditional fingerstyle playing, slapping, plucking, chord strumming, and contrapuntal two-handed tapping techniques on fretted and fretless instruments with his amazing and unparalleled work with the EBow, explorations with harmonics, and his extensive use of altered tunings. Throughout his career, Michael has honed his skills on hundreds of recordings as a session musician and thousands of concerts around the world. Michael's six recordings as a solo artist, Unusual Weather, Toward The Center Of The Night, Drastic Measures, Thonk, The Book Of Flame, and Soliloquy have earned him international critical acclaim. While solo recordings released by bassists have been conventionally regarded as music strictly targeted for the hard-core bass fanatic, Michael's solo projects have consistently astonished listeners with their compositional depth and beauty. Michael has been awarded two gold records, multiple Grammy nominations, a Berklee College of Music Distinguished Alumni Award, and numerous readers' poll awards including Bass Player magazine's "1994 Bassist Of The Year."

To learn more about Michael, visit: Manthing.com.

Solo Recordings
Soliloquy
The Book Of Flame
Thonk
Drastic Measures
Toward The Center Of The Night
Unusual Weather

Collaborations
With Attention Deficit:
The Idiot King
Attention Deficit

With Scott McGill & Vic Stevens:
Controlled By Radar
Addition By Subtraction

With Sadhappy:
Good Day Bad Dream

With David Cullen:
Equilibré

With Michael Hedges:
Breakfast In The Field
Aerial Boundaries
Watching My Life Go By
Live On The Double Planet
Taproot
Oracle

With Yves Carbonne & Dominique Di Piazza:
Carbonne - Di Piazza - Manring

With Alex de Grassi & Christopher Garcia:
Demania

Videos
The Artist's Profile: Michael Manring
Michael Manring: Thonk
Michael Manring: Performance Study
Bass Day 1998
Michael Manring: Bass Essentials

Books
Michael Manring: Thonk