Carmine Rojas

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Carmine Rojas born February 14 1953 in Brooklyn NY is an American bass guitarist musical director composer and producer Rojas toured the world with David Bowie from 19831987 recording bass on several multiplatinum hits such as Lets Dance China Girl Modern Love and Blue Jean He recorded and tour with Julian Lennon as a musical Director and bassist from 19851986 He recorded and toured with Rod Stewart as a musical director and bass guitarist from 1988 through 2003 One of the multiple albums recorded during that time includes the MTV multiplatinum live CD and DVD Unpluggedand Seated He also cowrote songs on the albums Vagabond Heart and A Spanner in the Works He has also recorded toured and played alongside Tina Turner Keith Richards Stevie Wonder Ron Wood Stevie Ray Vaughan BB King Mick Jagger Eric Clapton Eric Johnson Peter Frampton Al Green Carly Simon Ian Anderson Paul Rodgers John Waite Steve Winwood Billy Joel Herbie Hancock Lee Ritenour Julian Lennon John Hiatt Carole King Beth Hart Bobby Womack Waddy Wachtel Sam Moore Billy Squire Olivia Newton John Brandy Michael Hutchence Bernard Fowler Blondie Chaplin Stevie Salas Billy Gibbons Leslie West Joe Lynn Turner Carlos Santana Todd Rundgren LaBelle Nona Hendryx Michael Bolton Ivan Neville Allen Toussaint Phil Ramone Kevin Shirley Trevor Horn Patrick Leonard Charlie Sexton Jewel Dave Mason Mike Patton Glenn Hughes Nektar Tetsuya Komuro Hitomi Ziroq Modern Primitives Simranking Sass Jordan and many others Rojas is currently recording and touring with blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa He started in 2005 with the recording of You and Me and has continued to date culminating in five studio CDs in addition to Live from Nowhere in Particular and the DVD Live from the Royal Albert Hall and Live from the Beacon Theatre Description above from the Wikipedia article Carmine Rojas licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia