He has since toured often with Scofield, and has also produced several of his recordings. He toured and recorded with John Scofield from 1980 to 1984, first in trio with drummer Adam Nussbaum, and then in duet. He continues to perform and record with her extensively, in various contexts. He also played on recordings produced by Hal Willner, on tracks featuring, among others, Carla Bley, Dr. He performed with such diverse artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Brecker, George Benson and Herbie Hancock, and recorded with Stan Getz (on an album featuring Joao Gilberto), Bob Moses, Steve Lacy, Michael Mantler and Kip Hanrahan. In 1976 he was awarded a National Endowment For The Arts grant to set poems by Robert Creeley to music, which resulted in another ECM album, Home. Returning to the East Coast in 1974, he taught for two long years at the Berklee College of Music. He also took his first stab at band leading, in trio with Bill Connors and Glenn Cronkhite. In 1970 he switched from acoustic to electric bass and moved to Bolinas, California, where he wrote music for Hotel Hello, a duet album for ECM with Gary Burton, and played often with Mike Nock and Art Lande. He has performed on more than 20 of Burton’s recordings, the most recent being Quartet Live, nominated for a Grammy in 2007. In 1968 he left Getz to join Gary Burton’s quartet, an association he maintained, with occasional time off for good behavior, for 20 years. He toured from late 1965 through 1967 with the Stan Getz Quartet, which also included Gary Burton (replaced in 1967 by Chick Corea) and Roy Haynes. And he was sampled by A Tribe Called Quest. Many of his songs have been recorded by prominent jazz artists, including Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Gary Burton, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Kuhn, Lyle Mays, Jim Hall and Pat Metheny.
In 1964 he joined the Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall, and began writing music. He also performed in the early ‘60s with Joao Gilberto, Sheila Jordan, and bands led by Benny Goodman, Marian McPartland, Chico Hamilton, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer, and Chick Corea. In 1960 he met Paul and Carla Bley, left Yale in a hurry, moved to New York City, and began to tour and record with Paul Bley, The Jimmy Giuffre Trio and George Russell’s sextet, which featured Eric Dolphy and Thad Jones. During his years at Yale University he studied composition with Donald Martino, and played dixieland with many of the greats, among them Pee Wee Russell, Buck Clayton and Vic Dickenson.
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