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, Sting,

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, The Sleepy Jackson,

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, Jovanotti, Chuck Loeb,

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, and Knower. A member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band until 2018, he also performed on film and television soundtracks, including '' Ocean's Twelve'', ''

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''. Called a "musical linguist" by '' Bass Musician'' magazine, Lefebvre is proficient in various genres, including rock,

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, fusion,

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, and R&B. Lefebvre played bass on David Bowie's final studio album, '' Blackstar'', which was released two days before Bowie's death in 2016.

Equipment

Lefebvre's equipment as published in ''

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'': ;Bass guitars * Moollon P-Classic (with flatwounds and roundwounds) * Moollon J-Classic 5-string * Moollon fretless J-Classic * CallowHill OBS5, "Lafave" Model, "Asshole" bass *

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('63 and '68) *

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('65 and '77) * Serek Midwestern Bass *

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Starfire * Mathias Thoma

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with Gage Realist pickup and Pirastro Evah Pirazzi strings * American Standard acoustic bass with Realist and

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Zyex strings *J5 Tim Lefebvre Signature ;Rig *

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SVT-VR head with SVT-810E cabinet * Ampeg vintage B25-B head * Aguilar Tone Hammer 500 head with SL 112 cabinet ;Effects * Boss OC-2 Octave and RE-20 Space Echo * Dunlop Way Huge Pork Loin Overdrive, Carbon Copy and Carbon Copy Bright Analog Delay, EchoPlex * Custom 3Leaf Audio pedalboard with Octabvre octave pedal and You're Doom fuzz pedal, Wonderlove Envelope Fliter * Darkglass Microtubes Vintage and Microtubes B7K bass preamp *

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Frequency Analyzer * TC Electronic Röttweiler Distortion * Line 6 Tap Tremolo * Pigtronix EP2 Envelope Phaser * Mantic Vitriol, Density Hulk, Proverb * Pedaltrain 18 * DOD Meatbox * Daredevil Fuzz * Pike Amplification Vulcan XXL

Discography

As co-leader

* 2000 ''Clearance Sale'', Tim Lefebvre/Zach Danziger * 2007 ''Rudder'', Rudder * 2009 ''Matorning'', Rudder * 2009 '' Krantz Carlock Lefebvre'' * 2010 ''Domestic Blitz'', Tim Lefebvre/Emily Zuzik * 2016 ''

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'', Tedeschi Trucks Band * 2016 ''Into The Cosmos Vol. I & II''
19 Foot Trio
* 2017 ''

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'', Tedeschi Trucks Band

As sideman

With

* 2016 '' Blackstar'' * 2017 ''

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'' * 2018 '' Never Let Me Down 2018'' With

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* 1999 ''Love'' *2000 ''Chattin' with Chet'' * 2010 ''At the End of the Day'' * 2014 ''The Movie Album'' With Uri Caine * ''

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'' (2002) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''

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* 1999 ''Touch'' * 2001 ''Soul Insider'' With

* ''Greenwich Mean'' (1999) * ''Your Basic Live'' (2003) * ''Your Basic Live '06'' (2007) * '' Good Piranha / Bad Piranha'' (2014) With Chuck Loeb * 1996 ''The Music Inside'' * 1998 ''The Moon, the Stars, and the Setting'' * 2001 ''In a Heartbeat'' * 2007 ''The Love Song Collection'' With Donny McCaslin * 2010 ''Perpetual Motion'' * 2012 ''Casting for Gravity'' * 2015 ''Fast Future'' * 2016 ''Beyond Now'' With Chris Potter * 2019 ''Circuits'' With Andy Snitzer * 2011 ''Traveler'' * 2013 ''The Rhythm'' With others * 1997 ''Beautiful Love'', Eddie Daniels * 1997 ''Black Guitar'', Leni Stern * 1997 ''Spiral Staircase'', Mark Sherman * 1997 ''Turning Night into Day'', Nelson Rangell * 1998 ''I'll Never Get Over You'', Chuck Jackson * 1999 ''Parable'', Pete McCann * 2000 ''Fool No More'', Peter Eldridge * 2000 ''Jazzpunk'', David Fiuczynski * 2000 ''Loose Ends'', Larry John McNally * 2000 ''New York Night'', Richard Dobson * 2000 ''NYC d'N'B'',

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* 2002 ''Balance'',

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* 2004 ''I Get Along With You Very Well'', Tony Lakatos * 2006 ''Strength'', Gil Parris * 2008 ''Moss'',

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* 2010 ''30 Rock'', Jeff Richmond * 2010 ''The Pursuit'',

* 2011 ''Mad Heaven'', Peter Eldridge * 2011 '' Time Together'', Michael Franks * 2012 ''It's Love'',

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* 2013 ''Sentimental Journey'', Emmy Rossum * 2015 ''Hanging On'', Knower * 2016 '' Rich Man'',

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* 2016 ''Til They Bang on the Doo''r, Lucy Woodward * 2016 ''

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* 2016 ''Angelenos'', Emily Zuzik *2019 ''HAN,''

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*2021 ''XXXX,'' Michael Wollny

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lefebvre, Tim Living people 1968 births American jazz double-bassists Male double-bassists American jazz bass guitarists American male bass guitarists American rock bass guitarists American session musicians Guitarists from Massachusetts People from Foxborough, Massachusetts Tedeschi Trucks Band members 20th-century American bass guitarists Jazz musicians from Massachusetts 21st-century double-bassists 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians