Touring bassist. Mixing engineer. The pocket is the point. ?
I'm Jay Bratten — I've held down the low end on Glastonbury's main stage, at the AMA Awards with Drake (headlining), on tour with Musiq Soulchild and Mario Barrette, and in sessions with Mark Ronson, Naō Yoshioka, and Eric Roberson. My bass is on Ayra Starr's Tiny Desk. I'm a Warwick artist — R&B, gospel, soul, jazz, ...
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Touring bassist. Mixing engineer. The pocket is the point. ?
I'm Jay Bratten — I've held down the low end on Glastonbury's main stage, at the AMA Awards with Drake (headlining), on tour with Musiq Soulchild and Mario Barrette, and in sessions with Mark Ronson, Naō Yoshioka, and Eric Roberson. My bass is on Ayra Starr's Tiny Desk. I'm a Warwick artist — R&B, gospel, soul, jazz, pocket-first, always.
In the studio I run Musiqboy Productions (Delaware, USA) and mix with the Organic Mixing approach I teach in my own course: clear, soulful, release-ready mixes built on real listening, not gear worship. I also mix live broadcast every week as Broadcast Mix Engineer at New Zion Temple — I know what a mix sounds like when there's no second take.
Three solo records of my own — Hymns My Way (2014), Ordered by You (2018), For My Good (2021) — taught me the artist's side of the glass. I deliver like I'm on your team, because I am.
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