Clarence Seay (jazz bassist,composer born 1957 Washington, DC) Seay has been an acoustic bassist with the Wallace Roney Quintet for over 15 years. Seay, also known as “Big C” , is a disciple of the Paul Chambers school of jazz bass playing which features a style of walking harmonically inventive bass lines in a robust manner by positioning strings relatively high from the fingerboard- a practice mostly abandoned by modern bass players because of its physical difficulty. Wallace Roney (born May 25, 1960) is an American trumpet player and jazz musician. ... Paul Chambers Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. ...

In addition to Roney, Seay has recorded and/or toured domestically and internationally with several renown jazz artists and groups including Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers , Wynton Marsalis, Billy Harper, Chico Freeman, Lou Donaldson and the Smithsonian Jazz Works Orchestra. Arthur (Art) Blakey (October 11, 1919–October 16, 1990), also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. ... Wynton Learson Marsalis (b. ... Billy Harper is the founder of Harper Industries Inc. ... Chico Freeman is a tenor saxophonist born on July 17, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois. ... Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926) is a jazz alto saxophonist. ...

Seay attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, with Wallace Roney and Gregory Charles Royal in the 1970‘s and attended Howard University with them and pianist Geri Allen in the 1980‘s. Seay was an Adjunct Professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond for over 10 years in the 1980’s and 90’s. Wallace Roney (born May 25, 1960) is an American trumpet player and jazz musician. ... The cover of Geri Allens 2004 album The Life of a Song. ...

Clarence was commissioned by the United States Post Office to compose and perform on their Album Commemorating America’s Celebration of Jazz.

== DISCOGRAPHY ==

Wallace Roney Quintet

Village

Billy Harper

Soul of an Angel

If Our Heart Could Only See

Destiny Is Yours

Cindy Blackman

Telepathy Arcane

Wynton Marsalis

God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen

Gregory Charles Royal with Geri Allen

Dream Come True