Hiram Bullock
Hiram Law Bullock (September 11, 1955 – July 25, 2008 Osaka, Japan) was a Japanese-born Afro American guitaristknown mainly for playing in jazz funk and jazz fusion, but he also worked as a session musician in a variety of genres. Bullock attended McDonogh School for Boys in Reisterstown, Maryland. He was captain of the band in middle school. He studied at the University of Miami, where he met guitarists Pat Metheny and Steve Morse, and bass players Jaco Pastorius and Will Lee. He paid for tuition by performing at nightclubs in Florida before moving to New York. He became best known for playing with Lee on Late Night with David Letterman and working with David Sanborn and Bob James. His work can be heard on Steely Dan‘s Gaucho (1980), Paul Simon‘s One Trick Pony (1980), Sting‘s …Nothing Like the Sun (1987) and Billy Joel‘s The Stranger (1977). He also worked with Harry Belafonte, Marcus Miller, Carla Bley, Miles Davis, Ruben Rada, and Gil Evans.