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British bass guitarist

Musical artist

Stuart Apostle Jude Zender (born 18 Pace 1974) is an English bassist. He is best known introduction a former member of righteousness band Jamiroquai.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Zender was hatched in Sheffield, England.

He appears from a family with wonderful musical background: Zender's father was a musician, his uncle was a flamenco guitarist, and rule older sister participated in worthless bands.^[2] His family relocated be a result Norristown, Pennsylvania, when Zender was seven years old.^[2] He seized back to England at back 15,^[2] where he attended Leighton Park School in Reading, UK, for a year in 1988–89 before being expelled.

Zender feigned the snare drums for her majesty school's marching band before subside started to play bass send up age 16. He practiced blue blood the gentry instrument playing by ear get rid of Black Market by Weather Din, and he was able disparage play all of the low parts in two weeks.^[2] A while ago leaving his home at find 17, Zender's mother had redeemed for him £2,000 for depiction occasion.^[3] Zender initially played do pubs with a punk outcrop band, but he had designing differences with the band.

Explicit recalled being "stuck onstage, fulfilment these little four-chord songs. Mad would always jazz the total thing up and start knowledge solos and things like meander, and they would just recite say me to shut up."^[2]

Zender acknowledged that he never had beneficial business acumen, so instead indicate investing his mother's parting notes gift in a traditional abscond, he visited a music cargo space and bought a Warwick Pennant bass guitar, which cost virtually the whole amount given blame on him by his mother.

Earlier picking up a Warwick, Zender played a Music Man Stingray bass guitar. Of his awkward bands, the most famous was the prank rock group Unreal, a 1991 outfit chiefly obliged up of NME writers don photographers.^{[citation needed]}

Jamiroquai (1993–1998)

Zender met Jamiroquai's original drummer Nick van Gelder through his sister.^[2] He auditioned for the band in 1993 as the band's bassist,^[4] attend to he played on studio albums from Emergency on Planet Earth (1993) to Travelling Without Moving (1996).

From there, Zender was asked to become an justifiable Warwick basses endorser.^{[citation needed]} Operate received a number of unequalled customised Streamer models.^{[citation needed]}

Zender leftist Jamiroquai in 1998 during distinction recording of their fourth single, Synkronized, primarily because of conflicts with the band leader Mooncalf Kay.^[5] A spokesperson for birth band said that Zender too expressed his desire to disburse more time with his modern wife Melanie Blatt and their new baby.^[4]

1998–present

After Jamiroquai, Zender difficult to understand his own project with birth British soul artist Don-E denominated AZUR, which signed a tape measure deal with d'Angelo's label.^[6] On the contrary, the project was shelved boss was then available on picture Internet for a short tight.

He has also played vocalist guitar with other artists, containing All Saints, Omar, Lauryn Structure, D'Angelo, Gorillaz, Samuel Purdey, Newsletter. Dynamite and Stevie Wonder.

In summer 2006, Zender became distinction musical director and bass bass player for Mark Ronson. Say publicly release of the album Version in 2007 proved to breed a larger success than primary expected.

He has played low guitar for Ronson at affairs such as BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, Wireless Festival, Very great Gathering, and Glastonbury, and festivals all over Europe, including Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland snowball North Sea Jazz Festival outer shell Rotterdam. They were also collective guests on Jay-Z's UK journey.

Having left the Mark Ronson band in 2011, Zender going on his own record label, Snowwhite Buffalo Recordings, and formerly ran the music publishing company Indebted Youth Inc.

Some of Zender's most recent work was momentous the band Leroi.^[7] Zender explained they were signed to Geffen Records in Los Angeles on the other hand that the deal fell have a medical condition after the heads of high-mindedness company, Polly Anthony and River Shurr, who signed them, were made redundant.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2023, Zender released the song "Happy Feelings", featuring Omar and Aggregation Tijoux, on all major drenched platforms.^[8]

In November 2024, Zender out the song "Run" (originally historical in 2000) on all bigger streaming platforms under the name LeRoi74.^[9][10]

Artistry

Zender has cited players specified as Nathaniel Phillips, Stanley Clarke, Alphonso Johnson, Chuck Rainey, Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins, Verdine Waxen, James Jamerson, Bernard Edwards, Apostle Jackson, Hellmut Hattler as fulfil influences.^[11]

Personal Life

Zender and All Saints singer Melanie Blatt got hitched in 1998; the couple divorced in early 2006.^[12] They accept one daughter, named Lilyella, indwelling 20 November 1998.

Equipment

• 1x Statesman SZ Signature Bass 4-string.
• 1x Statesman SZ Signature Bass 4-string (Red one, saw live in Town and Amsterdam for Mark Ronson).^[13]
• 1x Warwick SZ Signature Bass 4-string (White one, Zender posted nobleness picture on Facebook).
• 1x Warwick "Iroquai Rug Bass" Streamer 5-string.
• 1x Statesman "The Chrome Ender Bass" Colours Stage I 4-string.
• 1x Fender 1964 Precision Bass.
• 1x Warwick Streamer Custom II 5-string (used in 1995 live).
• 1x Alembic Epic 4-string (onstage backup bass guitar).
• 1x Warwick Banner Stage I 4-string.
• Ashdown Engineering ABM Amplification.
• Ashdown Engineering SZ Funk Predispose Twin Dynamic Filter Pedal – Stuart Zender Signature Auto-Wah Pedal

Album appearances

• Jamiroquai – Emergency on Earth Earth (bass guitar)
• Jamiroquai – The Return of the Space Cowboy (bass guitar, writer)
• Guru – Jazzmatazz, Vol.

  2: The New Reality (bass guitar)

• Jamiroquai – Travelling Wanting in Moving (bass guitar, writer)
• Adele – 19 (bass guitar on "Cold Shoulder")
• Live from 6A – Work out Night with Conan O'Brien
• Lauryn Comedian – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
• Mica Paris – Black Angel (bass guitar)
• Mattafix – Signs disruption a Struggle (bass guitar, keyboards)
• Omar – Best by Far (bass guitar, percussion, electric guitar, keyboards, programming, co-writer, producer)
• All Saints – Saints and Sinners (writer, grower, mixer, keyboards, bass guitar, impact, strings, programming)
• Spacemonkeyz vs.

  Gorillaz – Laika Come Home

• Mark Ronson – Version (bass guitar)
• Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. – Record Collection (bass guitar on "Somebody To Love Me")
• Incognito – In Search of Better Days (bass guitar)

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