Hiram Bullock
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Bullock in 2006
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Hiram Law Bullock |
| Born |
September 11, 1955 Osaka, Japan |
| Died | July 25, 2008 (aged 52) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Associated acts | Jaco Pastorius, David Sanborn, Will Lee |
| Website | www |
Hiram Law Bullock (September 11, 1955 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.
Bullock was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S. Military. At the age of two he returned to Baltimore, Maryland with his parents, and quickly showed a prodigious musical talent. He studied piano at the city's Peabody Conservatory of Music, giving his first public performance aged just six. After spells playing the saxophone and bass, he took up the electric guitar at sixteen.
Bullock attended McDonogh School for Boys in Reisterstown, MD. He was Captain of the band in middle school. He studied at the University of Miami music college, meeting guitarists Pat Metheny and Steve Morse, and bass-players Jaco Pastorius and Will Lee (bassist). He paid his way at university by playing nightclub gigs in Florida, before moving to New York. He became best known for his playing with Lee on Late Night with David Letterman and work with David Sanborn and Bob James. His work can be heard on Steely Dan's Gaucho (1980), Paul Simon's One Trick Pony (1980), Sting's ...Nothing Like the Sun (1987) (solo on the cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing") and Billy Joel's The Stranger (1977). He also did work for Harry Belafonte, Marcus Miller, Carla Bley, Miles Davis, Ruben Rada (on the album Montevideo) and Gil Evans.
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