Our next featured artist for the "Chats With the Cats" series is bassist, Steve Wood.
Family influences played a strong role in Steve's early development, "My dad played some piano as a hobby. He got me into classical music. Also my older brother started playing guitar and turned me on to jazz and funk. I started playing bass just before I turned 12. For Christmas that year my parents asked my brother who's records they should get me. He told them Charles Mingus and Ron Carter so that's who I first started checking out.