Billy Mohler - Focus Quartet

Bassist/Composer Billy Mohler returns his Focus to jazz after a successful career in rock, pop and R&B production and songwriting Mohler’s leader debut, due out March xx via Make Records, features a stellar chordless quartet with Shane Endsley and Nate Wood of Kneebody and Chris Speed of Human Feel When bassist/composer Billy Mohler graduated from Berklee College of Music and joined the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a life in jazz seemed the most obvious prospect before him. But life, as it so often does, had other ideas: A Top 40 hit, production credits with some of pop music’s most famous names, arena touring with rock and R&B legends, and a Grammy nomination all followed. Mohler never forgot his first love, however. With his long-delayed debut album, Focus, he does just that – focuses his attention on his own distinctive voice, in collaboration with some of modern jazz’s most…