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Colin Hodgkinson (born 14 October 1945, Peterborough
Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of as of June 2006. For ceremonial counties of England purposes it is in the Counties of England of Cambridgeshire....
, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom#England in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex, England and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west....
 ) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
, jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 bassist
Bassist

A bass player is a musician who plays a double bass, bass guitar, or another low-pitched instrument, such as keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as tuba or sousaphone....
, who has been active since the 1960s.

as worked with Chris Rea
Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, recognisable for his distinctive, raspy voice. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide....
, The Eric Delaney Band, Back Door (of which he was co-founder), Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner , born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner, was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues"....
 , Whitesnake
Whitesnake

Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
 , Jon Lord
Jon Lord

Jon Douglas Lord is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player.Lord is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms....
, Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer

Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. His compositions have won him several Grammy awards. He is probably best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s, as well as his "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s United States of America television program, Miami Vice....
 , Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield was an United States blues vocalist, harmonica player who gained international recognition in part, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, in Woodstock, New York....
, The Spencer Davis Group, Pete York
Pete York

Pete York is a rock music drummer who has been performing since the 1960s....
, and The Electric Blues Duo, as well as with Ian "Stu" Stewart
Ian Stewart (musician)

Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was a Scottish keyboardist and cofounder of The Rolling Stones. He was dismissed from the line-up in May 1963 but he remained as road manager and piano player....
's boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie has the following meanings:* Boogie-woogie , a piano-based music style* Boogie-woogie , a swing dance or a dance that imitates the Rock-n-Roll dance of the 1950s...
 band
Band (music)

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:...
, Rocket 88
Rocket 88 (band)

Rocket 88 is the name of a United Kingdom-based boogie-woogie band formed c. 1980 by Ian Stewart , Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner and Dick Morrissey....
. In 2007 Hodgkinson became a member of The British Blues Quintet
The British Blues Quintet

The British Blues Quintet is a United Kingdom band , formed in London in 2006 by five veteran United Kingdom blues musicians. Its members are Zoot Money , Colin Allen , Maggie Bell , Colin Hodgkinson and Miller Anderson ....
, along with Zoot Money
Zoot Money

George Bruno "Zoot" Money is a singing, keyboardist, bandleader and actor best known for his playing of the Hammond Organ and the Big Roll Band....
, Maggie Bell
Maggie Bell

Maggie Bell is a Scottish people rock music and blues-rock singer. Vocally regarded by some as Britain's answer to Janis Joplin....
, Miller Anderson
Miller Anderson (musician)

Miller Anderson, born on April 12, 1945, in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, is a UK-based blues guitarist and singer.Apart from pursuing his own solo career, he was a member of the Keef Hartley band which performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and has been associated for many years with the Spencer Davis Group and associated acts....
 and Colin Allen
Colin Allen

Colin Allen and still appears occasionally, with the Big Roll Band. He has played drums for many United States and United Kingdom musicians including Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim, Solomon Burke, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Marc Bolan, Mick Taylor, Focus, Donovan, Stone The Crows, Georgie Fame and...
) of The British Blues Quintet
The British Blues Quintet

The British Blues Quintet is a United Kingdom band , formed in London in 2006 by five veteran United Kingdom blues musicians. Its members are Zoot Money , Colin Allen , Maggie Bell , Colin Hodgkinson and Miller Anderson ....
.

Hodgkinson is a musician who has developed a left-hander bass
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
 technique which can replace both lead
Lead guitar

Lead guitar refers to the use of a guitar to perform melody lines, fill , and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock music, heavy metal music, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop music contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompan...
 and rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chord al accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the country music, blues music, rock music or Heavy metal music genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the melodic lines and solos play...
 if necessary, (as exemplified by his work with the jazz-rock trio
Trio (music)

Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:*Three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.*The performance of a song by three people....
, Back Door - line-up: saxophone
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
, bass, drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
s).






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Colin Hodgkinson (born 14 October 1945, Peterborough
Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of as of June 2006. For ceremonial counties of England purposes it is in the Counties of England of Cambridgeshire....
, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom#England in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex, England and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west....
 ) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
, jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 bassist
Bassist

A bass player is a musician who plays a double bass, bass guitar, or another low-pitched instrument, such as keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as tuba or sousaphone....
, who has been active since the 1960s.

Career

He has worked with Chris Rea
Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, recognisable for his distinctive, raspy voice. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide....
, The Eric Delaney Band, Back Door (of which he was co-founder), Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner , born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner, was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues"....
 , Whitesnake
Whitesnake

Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
 , Jon Lord
Jon Lord

Jon Douglas Lord is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player.Lord is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms....
, Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer

Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. His compositions have won him several Grammy awards. He is probably best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s, as well as his "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s United States of America television program, Miami Vice....
 , Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield was an United States blues vocalist, harmonica player who gained international recognition in part, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, in Woodstock, New York....
, The Spencer Davis Group, Pete York
Pete York

Pete York is a rock music drummer who has been performing since the 1960s....
, and The Electric Blues Duo, as well as with Ian "Stu" Stewart
Ian Stewart (musician)

Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was a Scottish keyboardist and cofounder of The Rolling Stones. He was dismissed from the line-up in May 1963 but he remained as road manager and piano player....
's boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie has the following meanings:* Boogie-woogie , a piano-based music style* Boogie-woogie , a swing dance or a dance that imitates the Rock-n-Roll dance of the 1950s...
 band
Band (music)

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:...
, Rocket 88
Rocket 88 (band)

Rocket 88 is the name of a United Kingdom-based boogie-woogie band formed c. 1980 by Ian Stewart , Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner and Dick Morrissey....
. In 2007 Hodgkinson became a member of The British Blues Quintet
The British Blues Quintet

The British Blues Quintet is a United Kingdom band , formed in London in 2006 by five veteran United Kingdom blues musicians. Its members are Zoot Money , Colin Allen , Maggie Bell , Colin Hodgkinson and Miller Anderson ....
, along with Zoot Money
Zoot Money

George Bruno "Zoot" Money is a singing, keyboardist, bandleader and actor best known for his playing of the Hammond Organ and the Big Roll Band....
, Maggie Bell
Maggie Bell

Maggie Bell is a Scottish people rock music and blues-rock singer. Vocally regarded by some as Britain's answer to Janis Joplin....
, Miller Anderson
Miller Anderson (musician)

Miller Anderson, born on April 12, 1945, in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, is a UK-based blues guitarist and singer.Apart from pursuing his own solo career, he was a member of the Keef Hartley band which performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and has been associated for many years with the Spencer Davis Group and associated acts....
 and Colin Allen
Colin Allen

Colin Allen and still appears occasionally, with the Big Roll Band. He has played drums for many United States and United Kingdom musicians including Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim, Solomon Burke, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Marc Bolan, Mick Taylor, Focus, Donovan, Stone The Crows, Georgie Fame and...
) of The British Blues Quintet
The British Blues Quintet

The British Blues Quintet is a United Kingdom band , formed in London in 2006 by five veteran United Kingdom blues musicians. Its members are Zoot Money , Colin Allen , Maggie Bell , Colin Hodgkinson and Miller Anderson ....
.

Hodgkinson is a musician who has developed a left-hander bass
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
 technique which can replace both lead
Lead guitar

Lead guitar refers to the use of a guitar to perform melody lines, fill , and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock music, heavy metal music, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop music contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompan...
 and rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chord al accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the country music, blues music, rock music or Heavy metal music genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the melodic lines and solos play...
 if necessary, (as exemplified by his work with the jazz-rock trio
Trio (music)

Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:*Three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.*The performance of a song by three people....
, Back Door - line-up: saxophone
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
, bass, drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
s). A typical gig
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
 involving Hodgkinson will be a solo
Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. In practice this means a number of different things, depending on the type of music and the context....
 slot in which he will render a bass and vocals only rendition of a classic blues song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
, a particular favourite being his take on Jesse Fuller
Jesse Fuller

Jesse Fuller was an United States one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues". ...
's, "San Francisco Bay Blues
San Francisco Bay Blues

"San Francisco Bay Blues" is an United States folk song and is generally considered to be the most famous composition by Jesse Fuller. Fuller first recorded the song in the mid-1950s for a small label called World Song....
". This track, amongst others was included in his solo
Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. In practice this means a number of different things, depending on the type of music and the context....
 album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
, The Bottom Line, issued in 1998. A release that is, in effect, an entire album of bass solos.

On 28 October 2008 the Colin Hodgkinson Band released Back Door Too!, recorded with Rod Mason (saxophone
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
) and Paul Robinson (drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
s).

Solo discography

  • - 1998 - In Akustik
  • Back Door Too! - 2008 (Rokoko Records)


See also

  • List of Whitesnake band members
    List of Whitesnake band members

    David Coverdale is best known for his band Whitesnake. Whitesnake emerged when Coverdale wanted to name his backing band on tour, before becoming a device for him to promote himself with though it remained his backing band and not a band in its own right....


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