Mike Michael Richmond, born 26 February 1948 in Philadelphia, United States, is an American jazz bassist who began on guitar before switching to bass in his early teens. After studying at Temple University under Edward Arian and Jimmy Garrison, he performed with Stan Getz, Jack DeJohnette, Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Lee Konitz, Hubert Laws, Franco Ambrosetti, Gil Evans, Art Farmer, Woody Herman and George Gruntz. Richmond’s first leader releases included Dream Waves (1978) and For Us (1978), followed by Basic Tendencies (1996), Tones for Joan's Bones (2018), and Turn Out the Stars (2023). He also notably earned a Grammy Award for Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux (1991) and authored the widely used Modern Walking Bass Technique.
