Tim Lefebvre
Tim Lefebvre is an American bass guitarist. Both as a session musician and band member, he has worked with a wide range of musicians, including David Bowie, The Black Crowes, Elvis Costello, Sting, Empire of the Sun, The Sleepy Jackson, Wayne Krantz, Patti Austin, John Mayer, Jovanotti, Chuck Loeb, Mark Guiliana, Jamie Cullum, Chris Botti, and Knower. A member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, he has performed on film and television soundtracks, including Ocean's Twelve, The Departed, Analyze That, The Sopranos, and 30 Rock.
Called a "musical linguist" by Bass Musician magazine, Lefebvre is proficient in various genres, including rock, jazz, fusion, electronica, and R&B.
Lefebvre played bass on David Bowie's final studio album, Blackstar, which was released two days before Bowie's death in 2016.Equipment
Lefebvre's equipment as published in Bass Player:
;Bass guitars
;Rig
- Ampeg SVT-VR head with SVT-810E cabinet
- Ampeg vintage B25-B head
- Aguilar Tone Hammer 500 head with SL 112 cabinet
;Effects
- Boss OC-2 Octave and RE-20 Space Echo
- Dunlop Way Huge Pork Loin Overdrive, Carbon Copy and Carbon Copy Bright Analog Delay, EchoPlex
- Custom 3Leaf Audio pedalboard with Octabvre octave pedal and You're Doom fuzz pedal, Wunderlove Envelope Fliter
- Darkglass Microtubes Vintage and Microtubes B7K bass preamp
- Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer
- TC Electronic Röttweiler Distortion
- Line 6 Tap Tremolo
- Pigtronix EP2 Envelope Phaser
- Mantic Vitriol, Density Hulk, Proverb
- Pedaltrain 18
- DOD Meatbox
- Daredevil Fuzz
- Pike Amplification Vulcan XXL
Discography
As co-leader
- 2007 Rudder, Rudder
- 2009 Matorning, Rudder
- 2009 Krantz Carlock Lefebvre
- 2010 Domestic Blitz, Tim Lefebvre/Emily Zuzik
- 2016 Let Me Get By, Tedeschi Trucks Band
- 2016 Into The Cosmos Vol. I & II,
- 2017 Live from the Fox Oakland, Tedeschi Trucks Band
As sideman
With David Bowie
With Till Brönner
With Uri Caine
- Bedrock 3
- Shelf-Life
- Plastic Temptation
With Carmen Cuesta
- 1996 One Kiss
- 2004 Peace of Mind
With Bill Evans
- 1999 Touch
- 2001 Soul Insider
With Wayne Krantz
- Greenwich Mean
- Your Basic Live
- Your Basic Live '06
- Good Piranha / Bad Piranha
With Chuck Loeb
With Donny McCaslin
- 2010 Perpetual Motion
- 2012 Casting for Gravity
- 2015 Fast Future
- 2016 Beyond Now
With Andy Snitzer
- 2011 Traveler
- 2013 The Rhythm
With others
- 1997 Beautiful Love, Eddie Daniels
- 1997 Black Guitar, Leni Stern
- 1997 Spiral Staircase, Mark Sherman
- 1997 Turning Night into Day, Nelson Rangell
- 1998 I'll Never Get Over You, Chuck Jackson
- 1999 Parable, Pete McCann
- 2000 Fool No More, Peter Eldridge
- 2000 Jazzpunk, David Fiuczynski
- 2000 Loose Ends, Larry John McNally
- 2000 New York Night, Richard Dobson
- 2000 NYC d'N'B, Droid
- 2002 Balance, David Binney
- 2004 I Get Along With You Very Well, Tony Lakatos
- 2006 Strength, Gil Parris
- 2008 Moss, Moss
- 2010 30 Rock, Jeff Richmond
- 2010 The Pursuit, Jamie Cullum
- 2011 Mad Heaven, Peter Eldridge
- 2011 Time Together, Michael Franks
- 2012 It's Love, Eric Marienthal
- 2013 Sentimental Journey, Emmy Rossum
- 2016 Rich Man, Doyle Bramhall II
- 2016 Til They Bang on the Door, Lucy Woodward
- 2016 Two Vines, Empire of the Sun
- 2016 Angelenos, Emily Zuzik