Bassist Steve Alcott was born in Oklahoma City and raised in a series of Texas oilpatch towns, finally landing in Lubbock. After the Army and the Eastman School of Music, he came to NYC, where he has freelanced since 1979. 
He has played with diverse groups ranging from the show band at Kutsher's in the Catskills and the house band at Eddie Condon's to the Don Byron Klezmer Orchestra and Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. 
Among his recordings are "Alive and Lickin' " with Dan Hicks, "Shades of Blue" with Ben E. King, and "Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz". 
He plays the New Standard LaScala double bass and the Bill Merchant Vertical Bass, and uses Acoustic Image Amps with Euphonic Audio and DrBass speaker cabinets.