Stuart Patrick Jude Zender (born 18 March 1974) is an English bassist. He is best known as a former member of the band Jamiroquai.
Zender admitted that he never had good business acumen, so instead of investing his mother's parting cash gift in a traditional way, he visited a music store and bought a Streamer Bass bass guitar, which cost nearly the whole amount given to him by his mother. Before picking up a Warwick, Zender played a Music Man Stingray bass guitar. Of his early bands, the most famous was the prank rock group Fabulous, a 1991 outfit chiefly made up of NME writers and photographers.
Zender left Jamiroquai in 1998 during the recording of their fourth album, Synkronized, primarily because of conflicts with the band leader Jay Kay. A spokesperson for the band said that Zender also expressed his desire to spend more time with his then-girlfriend Melanie Blatt and their new baby.
In summer 2006, Zender became the musical director and bass guitar player for Mark Ronson. The release of the album Version in 2007 proved to be a larger success than first expected. He has played bass guitar for Ronson at events such as BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, Wireless Festival, Global Gathering, and Glastonbury, and festivals all over Europe, including Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. They were also special guests on Jay-Z's UK tour.
Having left the Mark Ronson band in 2011, Zender started his own record label, White Buffalo Recordings, and formerly ran the music publishing company Made Youth Inc.
Some of Zender's most recent work was with the band Leroi. Zender explained they were signed to Geffen Records in Los Angeles but that the deal fell through after the heads of the company, Polly Anthony and Jordan Shurr, who signed them, were made redundant.
In March 2023, Zender released the song "Happy Feelings", featuring Omar Lye-Fook and Ana Tijoux, on all major streaming platforms.
In November 2024, Zender released the song "Run" (originally recorded in 2000) on all major streaming platforms under the alias LeRoi74
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| Emergency on Planet Earth (except "When You Gonna Learn (Digeridoo)") | Jamiroquai | Bass | Ex-Member | 1993 |
| "Serengeti" | Jessica Lauren | Bass | Guest | 1993 |
| In Concert-582 | Jamiroquai | Bass | Ex-Member | 1994 |
| The Return of the Space Cowboy | Jamiroquai | Bass, Composer | Ex-Member | 1994 |
| "Lost Souls" – / Feel The Music | Guru | Bass | Guest | 1995 |
| Travelling Without Moving | Jamiroquai | Bass guitar, Writer | Ex-Member | 1996 |
| 19 ("Cold Shoulder") | Adele | Bass guitar | Guest | 2008 |
| Live from 6A – Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Various | Bass guitar | Guest | (unknown) |
| The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | Lauryn Hill | Bass guitar | Guest | 1998 |
| Black Angel | Mica Paris | Bass guitar | Guest | 1998 |
| Signs of a Struggle | Mattafix | Bass guitar, Keyboards | Guest | 2005 |
| Best by Far | Omar | Bass guitar, Percussion, Electric guitar, Keyboards, Programming, Co-writer, Producer | Guest | 2000 |
| Saints and Sinners | All Saints | Writer, Producer, Mixer, Keyboards, Bass guitar, Percussion, Strings, Programming | Guest | 2000 |
| Laika Come Home | Spacemonkeyz vs. Gorillaz | Bass guitar | Guest | 2002 |
| Version | Mark Ronson | Bass guitar | Guest | 2007 |
| Record Collection ("Somebody To Love Me") | Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. | Bass guitar | Guest | 2010 |
| In Search of Better Days | Incognito | Bass guitar | Guest | 2016 |
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