Melvin Gibbs has been called "the greatest bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine and was last year's winner of the 2019 JazzTimes Magazine's Critics Poll in the category: Electric Bass. His wide-ranging musical resume includes membership in bands ranging from the no-wave of Defunkt (where his work was deeply influential on the Red Hot Chili Peppers) to the avant-jazz of the Decoding Society, to Power Tools with Bill Frisell & Ronald Shannon Jackson, tto he alt-rock Rollins Band (where he was nominated for a Grammy), Socialybrium with Bernie Worrell, the Zig Zag Power Trio with Vernon Reid and Will Calhoun of the band Living Colour, and Body Meπa with Sasha Frere-Jones (Ui), Greg Fox (Liturgy, the Zs) and Grey MacMurray. He has worked with Femi Kuti, Caetano Veloso, dead prez, Eddie Palmieri, David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, and Sonny Sharrock. His own projects include Elevated Entity, which is a pioneering mix of Yoruba religious music, modern beat-making and jazz, God Particle, a collaboration with theoretical cosmologist and “The Jazz Of Physics” author Stephon Alexander which explores the connection between Albert Einstein and John Coltrane, and Melvin Gibbs Magnum, a 21st-century jazz band that includes Kassa Overall and DJ Logic. For 20+ years he has been a member of the band Harriet Tubman, who The New York Times wrote gave one of “The Best Jazz Performances of 2017” and NPR wrote gave “The Best Jazz Performance of 2018”.