Bassist Gerald Veasley will deliver Your Move, his first studio album in four years, on March 11th, 2008. The Heads Up International release find the Philadelphia-based artist creating a 10-track collection of original grooves with just one cover: Sly & The Family Stone's "Thank You (Fallettinmebemicelfagin)."
In addition to playing the bass, Veasley also tackles keyboards and guitars on this effort. But he admits that "bass player" is still the description that best fits him: "I'm a bass player primarily. I mean, if I had to make a living as a keyboardist I would not be able to eat. That's my best skill. But the other skills kind of enhance everything else. One of the interesting things about making your own albums is that it's a bane and a curse, sometimes on some of the songs I'm doing all the parts. On other songs I need the friction of my ideas rubbing up against someone else's ideas, or I need that synergy with another person."
Veasley is also the owner of the popular jazz club The Jazz Base in Reading, Pennsylvania, the locale of the Berks Jazz Festival.
His next live performance will be December 11th at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
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