Mitchell Coleman Jr

Journeyman bassist Mitchell Coleman, Jr. is a longtime touring and session musician with a bent toward jazz fusion and R&B. Raised in Cuba, Alabama, Coleman first started playing music in his adolescence after receiving a bass as a gift from his mother. Inspired by the music of trumpeter Miles Davis, as well as such bass heroes as Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, Slave's Mark Adams, and Jaco Pastorius, Coleman practiced religiously, and by his teens was regularly playing with local bands. After high school, he furthered his musical experience by enlisting in the United States Ai...