Michael Manring

Influenced by his teacher Jaco Pastorius, Manring offers used the electric bass into new territory. A indigenous from the Washington, DC, region, he played traditional bass in senior high school chamber organizations and orchestra while also employed in regional Top 40 rings. From 1979 to 1982, he honed his chops within the DC fusion group Organic Bridge and in addition started carrying out with guitarist Michael Hedges. Manring performed on Hedges’s Windham Hill debut Breakfast time in the Areas. Since that time, the bassist is just about the Windham Hill program man, documenting on albums by Will Ackerman, Ira Stein, and Russel Walder furthermore to his regular trips with Hedges. Manring can be a also an integral member within the label’s all-star music group, Montreux.