As both bassist & clinician (MTD
Basses, EBS Sweden, Maranatha! Music), Norm Stockton travels extensively
throughout North America and Europe. He also serves as the bass columnist
for Christian Musician magazine.
Profiled in Bass Player magazine (12/95),
he is a bassist/composer/educator with extensive experience in a wide array
of musical settings. His recording and/or performance credits include jazz
guitarist Steve Laury (solo artist, Fattburger), keyboardist Rob Mullins
(solo artist, The Crusaders), bassist Dominique Di Piazza (John McLaughlin
Trio, Front Page), keyboardist Scott Wilkie (Narada Jazz recording artist),
bluesman Darrell Mansfield, heavy rock group Luna Halo (Sparrow recording
artists), and singer/songwriter Bill Batstone (Harvest Crusade Praise Band,
Franklin Graham Crusades, formerly with The Praise Band).
Norm's acclaimed bass instructional
video series, Grooving for Heaven, has been distributed extensively in the
United States and abroad.
His recent solo debut, Pondering the Sushi, continues to garner positive
feedback from print and on-line media including Bass Player, Jazziz, the
Roland User's Group, UCLA's Daily Bruin, Bass Frontiers, Christian Musician,
Bassically.net, GlobalBass.com, and SmoothChristianJazz.com.
Norm's composition, "The Race" (opening
track from Pondering the Sushi) was selected for Bass Talk 7, the recent
compilation from Germany’s Hot Wire Music. Released in March of 2002, the
playlist includes tracks from such notables as Jeff Berlin, Tom Kennedy
(with Dave Weckl), Kai Eckhardt and Marcus Miller.
Norm lives in Orange County, CA, with his wife and daughters.
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Norm Stockton proudly uses & endorses
instruments & products from the following:
MTD
EBS Sweden
Carvin
Peavey
MTD Strings
GHS Strings
and, of course, he unequivocally prefers Coca-Cola to Pepsi
