Marc Johnson
Marc Johnson is an American double bassist, born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1953 and raised in Texas. He joined Bill Evans in 1978 and played in the pianist's last trio until Evans died in 1980. As a leader he formed Bass Desires, an ECM quartet with guitarists Bill Frisell and John Scofield and drummer Peter Erskine. Johnson played with Woody Herman in the late 1970s before the Evans trio. Bass Desires released Bass Desires (1986) and Second Sight (1987) on ECM. He later led Right Brain Patrol, with two albums on JMT, and recorded as a trio with John Abercrombie and Peter Erskine for ECM.
