# Jack Gregg

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{{Infobox musical artist
| background        = person
| name              = Jack Gregg
| image             = Jack Gregg.jpg
| caption           = Jack Gregg in 2010
| birth_date        = 1938
| birth_place       = 
| origin            = [Memphis, Tennessee](/source/Memphis%2C_Tennessee)
| genre             = Jazz
| instrument        = [Double bass](/source/Double_bass)
| years_active      = 
| label             = 
| current_member_of = 
| past_member_of    = [Compost](/source/Compost_(band))
}}

'''Jack Gregg''' is an American jazz [bass](/source/double_bass) player. He grew up in [Memphis, Tennessee](/source/Memphis%2C_Tennessee), where he started playing the bass at the age of 15. In 1961 he joined the [Claude Thornhill](/source/Claude_Thornhill) Orchestra and toured with the band for two years. In 1964, he moved to New York City, where he studied with [Frederick Zimmermann](/source/Frederick_Zimmermann) and played in [Roy Eldridge](/source/Roy_Eldridge)'s band.<ref name="bel7">{{cite web |title=Jack Gregg Contrebassiste |url=https://www.bel7infos.eu/jack-gregg-contrebassiste/ |website=Bel7 Infos |access-date=6 January 2024 |date=7 June 2014}}</ref> He played in a trio led by harpist [Daphne Hellman](/source/Daphne_Hellman). In addition to jazz, their repertoire ranged from "the baroque of Bach, Scarlatti, Corelli and Couperin through the lush music of Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Debussy, to arrangements of contemporary composers such as the Beatles and [Bobbie Gentry](/source/Bobbie_Gentry).<ref name = trio>{{Cite news| page = 6| title = Daphne Hellman Trio to appear in first concert of the season| work = Chippewa Herald-Telegram| location = Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin| date = September 28, 1970 | url = https://newspapers.com/article/chippewa-herald-telegram-daphne-hellman/138102786/}}</ref>

In 1971, Gregg, [Jack DeJohnette](/source/Jack_DeJohnette), [Bob Moses](/source/Bob_Moses_(musician)), [Harold Vick](/source/Harold_Vick) and [Juma Santos](/source/Juma_Santos) formed [Compost](/source/Compost_(band)), a [jazz fusion](/source/jazz_fusion) band. Compost made two albums for [Columbia Records](/source/Columbia_Records), ''[Take Off Your Body](/source/Compost_(album))'' in 1971 and ''Life is Round'' in 1973.<ref name="DejPdf">{{cite web |title=Jack DeJohnette |url=https://amhistory.si.edu/jazz/DeJohnette-Jack/DeJohnette_Jack_Interview_Transcription.pdf |website=Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program - Transcript |publisher=National Museum of American History |access-date=5 January 2024 |date=10–11 November 2011}}</ref> In an interview in 2000, [Steve Swallow](/source/Steve_Swallow) recalled that he had given his acoustic bass to Gregg in 1971, after having switched to electric bass.<ref name="swallow">{{cite web |last1=Jolley |first1=Craig |title=Meet Steve Swallow |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/meet-steve-swallow-steve-swallow |website=All About Jazz |access-date=6 January 2024 |date=20 June 2020}}</ref>

In 1976, Gregg left the United States and subsequently lived in Europe, eventually settling in Paris. He toured with [Gunter Hampel](/source/Gunter_Hampel), [Marion Brown](/source/Marion_Brown), [Joe Henderson](/source/Joe_Henderson), [Laszlo Gardony](/source/Laszlo_Gardony) and [Joe Lee Wilson](/source/Joe_Lee_Wilson), among others, and has appeared on many recordings.<ref name="discogs">{{cite web |title=Jack Gregg Discography |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/355686 |website=Discogs |access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="bel7" /> He played on [Abbey Lincoln](/source/Abbey_Lincoln)'s recording ''Golden Lady'', which was recorded in Paris in 1980 while Gregg was touring as part of Marion Brown's [rhythm section](/source/rhythm_section).<ref name = abbey>{{Cite news| pages = 117| last = McNally| first = Owen| title = Sympatico Accompaniment Sets off Vocalists| work = Hartford Courant| location = Hartford, Connecticut| date = 26 July 1981| url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant/138102303/}}</ref>

In 2005, he visited [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon) to play at the [B 018](/source/B_018) nightclub in [Beirut](/source/Beirut). While there, he met [Walid Gholmieh](/source/Walid_Gholmieh) and [Ziad Rahbani](/source/Ziad_Rahbani) and in the same year he moved to Beirut, where he set up the double bass program at the [Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music](/source/Conservatoire_Libanais) and played in the [Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra](/source/Lebanese_National_Symphony_Orchestra).<ref name="bel7" /> Gregg, pianist Arthur Satyan and drummer Steve Phillips formed a trio called ''Three Wheel Drive'' that played "authentic jazz" in Lebanon from 1996 until 2004.<ref name="satyan">{{cite web |title=History...Bands... |url=https://www.arthursatyan.com/history |website=Arthur Satyan Website |access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref> In 2005, Gregg returned to Paris.<ref name="bel7" />

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