Chris Lightcap

Chris Lightcap is a bassist and composer whose band Bigmouth became one of the more acclaimed bandleader projects to come out of the New York jazz scene in the 2000s. Born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, he began leading his own groups around 2000, releasing the quartet albums Lay-Up (2000) and Bigmouth (2003) on Fresh Sound New Talent before expanding the group to feature keyboardist Craig Taborn. The Bigmouth records Deluxe (2010) and Epicenter (2015), both on Clean Feed, were named among the year's best by outlets including the New York Times, NPR and DownBeat. A prolific sideman on both double bass and electric bass, Lightcap has worked with Marc Ribot, Regina Carter, Mark Turner, Tomasz Stanko, Paul Motian and Sheila Jordan, among many others. He is a faculty member at the New School's College of Performing Arts in New York.