As bassist, solo artist and clinician
(MTD Basses, Gallien-Krueger, Maranatha!
Music), Norm Stockton travels extensively
throughout North America, Europe and
Japan. He currently tours and records with worship artist Lincoln Brewster.
Profiled
in Bass Player magazine
(12/95), he is a bassist/composer/
educator
with extensive experience in a wide
array of musical settings. His past 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), guitarist Lincoln
Brewster (worship & solo artist,
Vertical Records and Steve Perry),
Darlene Zschech (worship & solo
artist, Hillsong Australia), bluesman
Darrell Mansfield, heavy rock group
Luna Halo (Sparrow recording artists),
singer/songwriter Bill Batstone (Harvest
Crusade Praise Band, Franklin Graham
Crusades), and many more.
Norm's
acclaimed bass instructional dvd series,
Grooving for Heaven, has been distributed
extensively in the United States and abroad.
His 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 compilation
from Germany's Hot Wire Music. The playlist includes
tracks from such notables as Jeff Berlin,
Tom Kennedy (with Dave Weckl), Kai Eckhardt
and Marcus Miller.
As a bass educator, Norm has served as adjunct faculty at Concordia University, Hope International University, Biola University, The Los Angeles Music Academy, and MusicDojo.com. He also serves as the bass columnist
for Christian Musician magazine.
Norm
lives in Orange County, CA, with his wife
and daughters.
Norm
Stockton proudly uses and endorses
instruments
& products from the following:
MTD
Gallien-Krueger
MTD Strings
and,
of course, he unequivocally prefers Coca-Cola
to Pepsi.
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