Chuck Webb
Chuck Webb is a first call bassist, writer, producer and educator who has toured and recorded with such notable artists as Aretha Franklin, Ramsey Lewis, David Sanborn, Al DiMeola, Grover Washington Jr., Freddie Hubbard and many others.
He has performed on hundreds of records, commercial jingles, sound tracks and major musical theater productions including Hamilton, Wicked, The Book of Mormon and others.
A graduate of the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, Chuck is on the board of directors of the Theater Musician’s Association (Chicago chapter), a member of the National Federation of Musicians, the National Educators Association and has served as the director of bass studies, ensemble program coordinator and private lessons instructor at Columbia College Chicago.
Chuck has given lectures on the role of music in education for such prestigious organizations as the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE), the Congressional Black Caucus and the National Educators Association.
The concepts, strategies and methods presented in SIGHT READING FOR THE CONTEMPORARY BASSIST have been developed and refined during Chuck’s 40+ years of teaching bassists of all levels how to read written notation.