Veteran Kansas City Bassist Rick Willoughby

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Veteran Kansas City Bassist Rick Willoughby .. He has been playing string instruments most of his life. He began playing the violin at age three and discovered his love for the string bass at eleven. In 2004, Rick Willoughby graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music with a B.F.A. in Jazz Performance under the sage guidance of Bobby Watson. During his time at UMKC, Rick had the privilege of studying with veteran KC jazz luminary Gerald Spaits. For the last twenty years, Rick has worked as a bandleader and accompanist around the greater Kansas City area, and has had the privilege of touring the country with various groups. Known well for his time with Quixotic, Victor & Penny and their Loose Change Orchestra, founding member of The Snow Globes and so many other projects. We caught up with him at KC Bier Company recently during a performance of Bram Wijnands. He talked about Bram's influence and many things we wanted to dig into .. and did. Enjoy .. For More Famous Interviews: Subscribe via Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgi6GpDDDrc_PgOzaERGbLQ Subscribe via iTunes/Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/famous-interviews-with-joe-dimino/id1660256991Subscribe via Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7j92QDS13LXgajPt80X2dh The Home of Famous Interviews: http://famousinterviewswithjoedimino.blogspot.com/ Contribute to Famous Interviews:    PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=ER  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.