Steve was born in 1960 and was musical kid, but it was an encounter with a horizontal bass at age 15 that immediately set him on a life-long obsession with music. A week later he bought a bass and wrote his first tune on the same day. Progressing quickly teaching himself, he found that a considerable facility fell into place with relative ease and was gigging shortly after. By his late teens Steve was absorbing the sounds of 'Weather Report', Miles Davis, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Tony Williams, et al. He formed his first electric jazz oriented group in 1978 with drummer Tony Buck and has led a band ever since. A renowned virtuoso on the electric bass for many years now, Steve is also an award winning composer with over 90 of his compositions / songs released on various albums, his seventh album "Condition Human", being his latest release as a leader. Steve loves getting involved with groups and projects outside of his own and over the years has played and / or recorded with (in alphabetical order): Atma-Sphere, Robyne Archer, Dale Barlow, Beacastuff, Bubaca, the Bay City Rollers, Erroll Buddle Quartet, Billy Cobham, Kate Ceberano, Chick Corea, D.I.G., Virgil Donati, Robyne Dunn, Dwiki Dharmawan, Vince Genova, Andy Gander, Renee Geyer, Hey, Hey It's Saturday (TV Show), Tamaya Honda, Mark Isham, Ken James Quintet, Jack Jones, Yusef Komunyaka, Guy Le Claire Group/s, Indra Lesmana, Ted Lo, Mark-Almond Band, Jon Mark, Bernie McGann, Steve McKenna, Matt McMahon, Paul MacNamara, Gayle Moran, James Muller, Mark Murphy, Maxine Nightingale, Carl Orr Band/s, Eugene Pao, Doug Parkinson, Daryl Pratt, Bobby Previte, Mark Simmonds Freeboppers, Phil Slater, Guy Strazzullo, Ulf Wakenius, Ren Walters, Sean Weyland and many other talented artists and groups. Steve also co-led the groups 'Playdiem', The Jack Jones / Steve Hunter / Virgil Donati Trio, 'Hong Kong Meeting' and 'Tree'(with Kevin Hunt and David Jones). Currently residing in Sydney - Australia, Steve is as in love with writing and playing music as always. Steve will be away from his home base of Sydney and residing in Spain from April to December 2004. |