Peter Washington
Peter Washington Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Peter Washington began playing bass in junior high school and by the age of fourteen he had already played a season with a community-based symphony orchestra. Throughout his high school years he concentrated on classical music, but also played the electric bass and guitar in rock bands. While studying at the University of California, Berkeley, he developed an interest in playing jazz and was soon freelancing in and around the San Francisco Bay area with John Handy, Bobby Hutcherson, Frank Morgan, Ernie Andrews, Ernestine Anderson and others. In April 1986, while still in college, he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and moved to New York. Mr. Washington performed with the Messengers through September 1999, then went on to do freelance work, touring and recording (several hundred CDs at last count) extensively with Benny Golson, the Mingus Dynasty, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Griffin, Hank Jones, Toshiko Akiyoshi, David "Fathead" Newman and more. As a long-standing member of the Tommy Flanagan Trio, he was joined with Lewis Nash in one of the stellar jazz trios of the 1990's. In the late 1990's, he joined the Bill Charlap Trio with Kenny Washington to once again play in one of the most highly regarded trios of the recent past.