Jim Ross is a guitarist/composer/session musician and producer from Jacksonville Florida, USA. Born in Michigan in 28 July 1976 and has lived all along the East cost US from Florida to Maine.
Jim’s body of work includes:
*13 published guitar books: The 1234 Guitar System, Scales-Formations Of Pitch, Chord Progressions-Harmonic Tension And Resolve, and more.
*Has written and recorded several metal and other albums with local and international bands such as Bandwhore, Doomsilla, Nader Sadek, Jim Rots, Human Enslavement, Cystic Dysentery, Necropia(Maine), and many others. Bandwhore - is a massive work in progress featuring many (50+ and always adding new artists) of the top metal musicians on the planet from all over the world, playing with various line-ups on over 200 metal songs, being his most ambitious work to date.
*Jim has been featured on many albums as a guest soloist or session artist: Criminal Element, Fetal Decay, Extremely Rotten, Saturnine, Warthrone, God Cries, Cranial Decay, Indefilade, Dead Centre, Nakhiel, and many more.
*Has toured USA, Europe, South America and still plays live with various acts.
*Currently has over 1,000 songs available on various digital platforms as well as over 20 solo albums in various genres spanning: metal, classical, country, jazz, misc instrumentals and beats, etc…
*has produced and/or engineered various local bands albums; mapping, tracking, editing, mixing/mastering.
*Has music featured in the movie “Black Matter Tomithy” credited in IMDB with the song “Oozing Substratum”.
*Currently owns and manages a cabinet installation company in Jacksonville, Florida. Dealing with high end as well as budget designs and installs.