{"id":173,"date":"2026-11-02T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:45:35","slug":"about-chris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/?page_id=173","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT CHRIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About Chris…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Chris has been playing bass since the tender age of 11, jamming with his dad\u2019s jazz funk band at 14 and even touring Europe with named artists at 16.
A graduate of The Musician\u2019s Institute, his playing has featured on TV adverts, radio jingles, elevator music and hit recordings ever since and he has played on stages all over the world, from Bognor to Hong Kong.
A lifelong funk and disco fan, this seasoned session musician and music teacher has worked with 70\u2019s disco legends Shirley Jones and Sister Sledge, 80\u2019s Icon Yazz, platinum selling producer Mark \u2018Artful Dodger\u2019 Hill and 90\u2019s groups The Spice Girls and All Saints.
He is currently first-call bassist for US soul stars Archie Bell and Glenn Jones as well as maintaining a career as the in-house bassist for Lovetown Music, based in Bath, Igloo Studios in Hampshire and is a director of tuition company Igloo Music in Portsmouth.
He also composes music for film and TV, working for companies in the UK  and Europe, as well as the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris is a proud endorsee of Overwater Basses www.overwaterbasses.com<\/a> and Read Audio In-Ear Monitors https:\/\/www.read-audio.com\/pro-inear-monitors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About Chris… Chris has been playing bass since the tender age of 11, jamming with his dad\u2019s jazz funk band […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"disabled","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriswoodbass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}