Chris R.

About Chris R.

Chris Rolontz is a professional musician and a rare Southern California native. A graduate of USC’s Thornton School of Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies, he has spent the last seventeen years as a working bass player, singer, and guitarist in Los Angeles. He plays both electric and upright bass, and he has worked across jazz, hip hop, rock, classical, bluegrass, and the music in between. At USC he studied with Darek “Oles” Oleszkiewicz. He is the upright bassist with Les Bons Garçons, a Los Angeles gypsy-jazz group in the Django Reinhardt tradition, and he plays double bass with the orchestral folk band TIEG. On stage he has played bass for the Benny Brydern Quartet’s Hot Club swing, and bass and guitar for The Colony Theatre in Burbank, including The Civility of Albert Cashier and Catch Me If You Can. Other highlights include opening for the Violent Femmes in 2016 with the band happiness, playing bass and singing with Alexio Kawara, and playing bass on the Netflix series Chef’s Table.