Photo by Dustin Vaughn-Luma Jodi Durst is an upright & electric bassist in the SF Bay Area. She is an extremely diverse musician who has performed with a variety of groups that range from straight-ahead jazz to indie-rock to R&B to punk rock to avante-garde. She has also performed in pit orchestras for several small local musical productions such as "Grease," "Rent," and "How to Succeed in Business." She holds a Bachelor's Degree of Music in Jazz Studies from the California Jazz Conservatory. She started playing electric bass when she was 12. By the age of 15 she was performing with her indie rock band in the SF Bay Area. Since then she has recorded, performed and toured with a number of bands including Zelma Stone, Louiza, Adrian West, The Bonafides, Seventeen Evergreen, Tigerbeat, Clevergirl, Distance From Shelter, Compton SF, 187Calm, Time Traveling Assassins with Ralph Spight (Victim's Family and Jello Biafra's Guantanomo Sch