Tim Lefebvre

Tim Lefebvre (born February 4, 1968)^[1] is an American bass guitarist. Both as a session musician and a live band member, he has worked with a wide range of musicians, including David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Sting, Empire Of The Sun, The Sleepy Jackson, Wayne Krantz, Patti Austin, John Mayer, Jovanotti, Chuck Loeb, Mark Guiliana, Jamie Cullum, and Chris Botti.^[2][3] Also being a member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band,^[4] he also performed on various film and television scores, including Ocean's Twelve, The Departed, Analyze That, The Sopranos and 30 Rock.^[3][5]

Being described as a "musical linguist" by the Bass Musician magazine, Lefebvre is proficient in various music genres, including rock, jazz, fusion, electronica and R&B.^[3]

Lefebvre played bass on Bowie's final studio album, Blackstar, released two days before Bowie's death in 2016.^[4][6][7]

Equipment

Lefebvre's equipment as published on Bass Player:^[1]

Bass guitars

• Moollon P-Classic (with flatwounds and roundwounds)
• Moollon J-Classic 5-string
• Moollon fretless J-Classic
• CallowHill OBS5, "Lafave" Model, "Asshole" bass
• Fender Precision Bass ’68
• Fender Precision Bass '63
• Fender Jazz Bass (’65 and ’77)
• Serek Midwestern Bass
• Guild/DeArmond Starfire
• Mathias Thoma acoustic bass with Gage Realist pickup and Pirastro Evah Pirazzi strings
• American Standard acoustic bass with Realist and D’Addario Zyex strings

Rig

• Ampeg SVT-VR head with SVT-810E cabinet
• Ampeg vintage B25-B head
• Aguilar Tone Hammer 500 head with SL 112 cabinet

Effects

• Boss OC-2 Octave and RE-20 Space Echo
• Dunlop Way Huge Pork Loin Overdrive, Carbon Copy and Carbon Copy Bright Analog Delay, EchoPlex
• Custom 3Leaf Audio pedalboard with Octabvre octave pedal and You’re Doom fuzz pedal, Wunderlove Envelope Fliter
• Darkglass Microtubes Vintage and Microtubes B7K bass preamp
• Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer
• TC Electronic Röttweiler Distortion
• Line 6 Tap Tremolo
• Pigtronix EP2 Envelope Phaser
• Mantic Vitriol, Density Hulk, Proverb
• Pedaltrain 18
• DOD Meatbo
• Daredevil Fuzz
• Pike Amplification Vulcan XXL

Discography

With David Bowie

• Blackstar (2016)
• Lazarus Cast Album (2016)

With Tedeschi Trucks Band

• Let Me Get By (2016)

With Doyle Bramhall II

• Rich Man (2016)

With Empire Of The Sun

• Two Vines (2016)

With Donny McCaslin

• Perpetual Motion (2010)
• Casting For Gravity (2012)
• Fast Future (2015)
• Beyond Now (2016)

With Knower

• Life (2016)

With Zhenya Strigalev

• Never Group (2016)

With 19Foot Trio

• Into The Cosmos (2015)

With Scott Kinsey

• Near Life Experience (2016)

With Toto

• Toto XIV (2015)

With Grace Kelly

• Trying To Figure It Out (2016)

With Mark Guiliana

• A Form of Truth (2013)
• Beat Music: The Los Angeles Improvisations (2014)

With Wayne Krantz

• Greenwich Mean (1999)
• Your Basic Live (2003)
• Your Basic Live '06 (2007)
• Krantz Carlock Lefebvre (2009)
• Good Piranha / Bad Piranha (2014)

With David Binney

• Balance (2002)

With Chuck Loeb

• The Music Inside (1996)
• The Moon, the Stars and the Setting Sun (1998)
• In a Heartbeat (2001)
• The Love Song Collection (2007)

With Uri Caine

• Bedrock_3 (2002)
• Shelf-Life (2005)
• Plastic Temptation (2009)

With John Petrucci

• Suspended Animation (2005)

With Michael Wollny Trio

• Weltentraum (2014)

With Tedeschi Trucks Band

• Let Me Get By (2016)

With Emily Zuzik

• Domestic Blitz (2011)^[8]
• Angelenos (2016)^[9]

With Knower

• Hanging On (2015) ^[10]

With Till Brönner

• Blue Eyed Soul (2002)

References

External links

• Official website