Joe Fonda

Joe Fonda is an American double bassist and composer, born in Amsterdam, New York, in 1954. He belongs to the creative jazz and free improvisation scene that grew around New Haven in the 1980s, and is best known for his years in Anthony Braxton's ensembles in the 1990s and for the Fonda/Stevens Group, which he co-leads with pianist Michael Jefry Stevens. Fonda moved from guitar to bass and took up the upright bass at Berklee. In the early 1980s he recorded with Wadada Leo Smith.