Lincoln Goines


Lincoln Goines is a double bassist and bass guitarist from Oakland, California.

Biography

A mainstay of the New York City jazz/Latin/studio scene since the early 1980s, Goines' career includes performance credits as sideman to Sonny Rollins, Paquito D'Rivera, Michel Camilo, Mike Stern, and Carly Simon. He is also an educator and author, having written "Funkifying The Clave: Afro-Cuban Grooves for Bass and Drums” with drummer Robby Ameen/Alfred Publishing 1996.
Goines attended high school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where he studied double bass with a former principal bassist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Keats. During this period of his development he also had lessons with Eddie Gómez and Gary Karr.
Goines' performance/touring credits include three decades as bassist for Latin jazz flutist and bandleader Dave Valentin, and a 20-year tenure with guitarist Mike Stern.
In 1986, Goines joined the faculty at The Collective in New York City and in 2008 became a professor of Bass at the Berklee College of Music.

Discography

As leader

  • ''The Art of the Bass Choir''

    As co-leader

  • Kim Plainfield and Lincoln Goines, ''Night and Day''

    As sideman (selected)

With Bob Berg
With Jeff Golub
  • Naked City
  • Out of the Blue
  • Grand Central
With Bob Mintzer
With Leni Stern
  • Secrets
  • Closer to the Light
  • Ten Songs
With Mike Stern
  • Odds or Evens
  • Play
  • Big Neighborhood
With Dave Valentin
  • The Hawk
  • Land of the Third Eye
  • Mind Time
  • Live at the Blue Note
  • Two Amigos
  • Tropic Heat
With others