1x Warwick SZ Signature Bass 4-string (Red one, saw live in Paris and Amsterdam for Mark Ronson).Having left the Mark Ronson band in 2011, Zender started his own record label, White Buffalo Recordings, and formerly ran the music publishing company Made Youth Inc. They were also special guests on Jay-Z's UK tour. He has played bass guitar for Ronson at events such as BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, Wireless Festival, Global Gathering, and Glastonbury, and festivals all over Europe including Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. The release of the album Version in 2007 proved to be a larger success than first expected. Zender left Los Angeles in summer 2006 to become the musical director and bass guitar player for Mark Ronson. Zender explained they were signed to Geffen Records in Los Angeles but the deal fell through after the heads of the company, Polly Anthony and Jordan Shurr, who signed them, were made redundant. Some of Zender's most recent work was with the band Leroi. He and Melanie Blatt were together for seven years. He has also played bass guitar with other artists, including All Saints, Omar, Lauryn Hill, D'Angelo, Gorillaz, Samuel Purdey, Ms. However, the project was shelved and was then available on the Internet for a short time. 1998–present Īfter Jamiroquai, Zender had his own project with the British soul artist Don-E called AZUR, which signed a record deal with d'Angelo's label. A spokesperson for the band said that Zender also expressed his desire to spend more time with his new wife Melanie Blatt, one of UK girl group All Saints, and their new baby Lilyella. Zender left Jamiroquai in 1998 during the recording of their fourth album, Synkronized, primarily because of conflicts with the band leader Jay Kay. He received a number of unique custom shop Streamer models. From there, Zender was asked to become an official Warwick basses endorser.
When Zender got out of school, he auditioned for Jamiroquai in 1993 as the band's bassist, and played on studio albums from Emergency on Planet Earth (1993) to Travelling Without Moving (1996). He also said that in another interview, he played a drum with a circus group without animals at that time. Of his early bands, the most famous was the prank rock group Fabulous, a 1991 outfit chiefly made up of NME writers and photographers. Before picking up a Warwick, Zender played a Music Man Stingray bass guitar. Īs Zender said, he never had good business acumen, so instead of investing that money in some way, he visited a music store and bought a Warwick Streamer bass guitar which cost nearly the whole amount given to him by his mother. Before leaving his home at age seventeen, Zender's mother had saved for him £2,000 for the occasion. He moved back to England at age 15, where he attended Leighton Park School in Reading, UK, for a year in 1988–89 before being expelled. His family relocated to Norristown, Pennsylvania, when Zender was seven years old.
He comes from a family with a musical background: Zender's father was a musician, his uncle was a flamenco guitarist, and his older sister participated in punk bands.
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