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Bass player Jerry Scheff grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, started playing tuba in grammar school and, by seventh grade, got into playing string bass. His musical bent was toward jazz and R&B. By age fifteen he was playing in clubs in his new hometown of Sacramento and back in San Francisco. As a high school senior Scheff joined the U.S. Navy and wound up in the Navy's school of music in…
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- Elvis: A Life in Music — Self (archive footage)2026
- EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert — Self (archive footage)2026
- Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30 — Self2017
- Elvis In Concert Remastered — Self - bass guitar (uncredited)2009
- Elvis Lives: The 25th Anniversary Concert — Self2006
- The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel — Self2002
- Elvis: The Ultimate Live Collection — self2002
- Elvis: The Lost Performances — Self (archive footage)1992
- Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night — Self - Upright Bass1988
- Red Shoes In the Land of the Midnight Sun: Elvis Costello & The Confederates Live in Tokyo — Self - Performer1987
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1941-01-31
Discography
- Ever Call Ready1985
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Jerry Obern Scheff is an American bassist, perhaps best known for his work with Elvis Presley (in the early 1970s Scheff was a member of Elvis' TCB Band) and his work on The Doors final recordings. In later years Scheff worked with Willy DeVille, Bob Dylan, John Denver, Elvis Costello (touring as Elvis Costello & The Confederates), Sam Phillips, Richard Thompson, and many other artists. One of Scheff's two sons, Jason Scheff, has been the bassist <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jerry+Scheff"
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- human
- Given name
- Jerry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- United States
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- bass
- Record label
- EMI
- Official website
- www.jerryscheffonline.com
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- Jerry Scheff.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1941-01-31
- Commons category
- Jerry Scheff
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
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Jerry Obern Scheff (* 31. Januar 1941) ist ein US-amerikanischer Musiker. Er ist vornehmlich als Bassgitarrist bekannt. Scheff war Mitglied von Elvis Presleys Begleitband TCB Band.
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