Acoustic and electric bassist Philip Booth has led or co-led many Tampa Bay area bands and musical projects, including jambands 
Ghetto Love Sugar and Sound Chemist, the Philip Booth Jazz Quintet, music/poetry ensemble the Irritable Tribe of Poets , the Jonathan Powell Quartet, Bop City and early '90s alternative pop/rock bands Liz Back on Booze and Thrive.
 
In 2007, he performs with several groups, including Trio Vibe, with vibraphonist Sam Koppelman and drummer Don Capone; the Booth/Koppelman Duo; Greenwich Blue, with guitarist LaRue Nickelson and others; and the drumless trios Tampa Native and Interlude. He will bring a special quartet, Acme Jazz Garage, to the USF Botanical Gardens for a Mother's Day show, May 13 at noon.
 
Philip's bands have played many venues, festivals and special events throughout Central Florida, including Jannus Landing, the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, Skipper's Smokehouse, the WMNF Tropical Heatwave, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, the Child of the Sun Jazz Festival, the House of Blues (restaurant), Guavaween, the Brandon Public Library, the Friday Extra Concert Series at Lowry Park, the Lake Wales Mardi Gras, the Sarasota Mardi Gras, Yeoman's Road Pub, the Orpheum, King Corona Cigars and a Super Bowl party in Tampa, opening for Jay Leno. 
 
He has also had the privilege of playing with bands backing jazz and blues greats Larry Coryell, Kenny Drew, Jr., Lucky Peterson and, when Philip was in college at UF in Gainesville, Bo Diddley.
 
Philip was the executive producer of the 1996 tribute disc Monk in the Sun and Greenwich Blue's When Our Time Comes , released in 1997. He co-produced Ghetto Love Sugar's 2002 The Uncertainty Principle, and additionally played on The Irritable Tribe of Poets' Vital Signs: The Primal Sessions (2002) and Kahlo (2004), Stone's Plain White Wrapper, Ronny Elliott and the Nationals (1997) and  Liz Back on Booze's self-titled cassette, which  attracted the attention Sony's A&R department. Ghetto Love Sugar contributed their version of the Beatles' "Within You, Without You" to WMNF's A Little Help From Our Friends: A Tribute to Benefit the WMNF Building Fund (2002).
 
For more information on his upcoming gigs, click on the above band links, contact Philip here or call (813) 832-4439.
 
Philip blogs at www.scribelife.blogspot.com. To check out samples of Philip's work as a music and film journalist, visit  www.philipboothmedia.com