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Norm Stockton is a bassist/composer/clinician currently based in Orange County, California.
Profiled in Bass Player magazine (12/95), Norm has extensive experience in a wide array of musical settings. His diverse recording and performance credits include jazz guitarist Steve Laury (solo artist, Fattburger), keyboardist Rob Mullins (solo artist, The Crusaders), bassist Dominique Di Piazza (John McLaughlin Trio), keyboardist Scott Wilkie (Narada Jazz recording artist), guitarist Lincoln Brewster (solo artist, Steve Perry), bluesman Darrell Mansfield, heavy rock group Luna Halo (Sparrow recording artists), and singer/songwriter Bill Batstone (Harvest Crusades, Franklin Graham Crusades).
He has also gained recognition in the international bass community as a respected music educator through his acclaimed bass instructional video series, Grooving for Heaven, which has been distributed extensively in the United States and abroad. In addition, Norm travels throughout North America and Europe, performing Grooving for Heaven live clinics, as well as clinics for Maranatha! Music, MTD Basses, and Gallien-Kruger. Norm serves as the bass columnist for Christian Musician magazine.
His solo debut, Pondering the Sushi, garnered positive feedback from print and on-line media including Bass Player, Jazziz, the Roland User’s Group, UCLA’s Daily Bruin, Bass Frontiers, Bassically.net and GlobalBass.com.
Norm’s composition, The Race (opening track from Pondering the Sushi), was selected for Bass Talk 7, the compilation series from Germany’s Hot Wire Music. Released in March of 2002, the playlist includes tracks from such notables as Jeff Berlin, Tom Kennedy (with Dave Weckl), Kai Eckhardt and Marcus Miller. Additionally, Norm and his wife, Gina, composed We Will Stand, a tune included on the Promise Keepers’ Live Worship (Maranatha! Music) recording in 2002.
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