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darkshade 
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 Topic: Your Favorite Jazz BassistsPosted: February 27 2008 at 15:51 |
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who are some of you favorite jazz bassists (Straight jazz, fusion, funk-jazz, etc...)
some of mine are... Percy Jones Bunny Brunel Jaco Pastorious Dave Holland Ron Carter Steve Jenkins Victor Wooten Stanley Clarke Paul Jackson Patrick O' Hearn Charles Mingus John Pattitucci Marcus Miller Alphonso Johnson |
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: February 27 2008 at 21:53 |
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Ironically, my favourite jazz bassist isn't even a jazz bassist: Michael Henderson.
Remember his work with Miles in the 70s? Everyone would be veering off into the most psyched-out splotches of fusion ever, and Michael Henderson would just keep on chugging the 'ole bassline. That guy could take a groove and hold onto it like his life depended on it. Listening to "The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions" box, you gotta admire the guy. There's chaos all around, and he keeps everything anchored. Great stuff. |
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Atavachron
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Posted: February 27 2008 at 22:49 |
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Dave Holland, Mingus, Charlie Haden
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darkshade
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Posted: February 28 2008 at 02:43 |
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haha Michael Henderson is one of my favorite parts of some of Miles' fusion albums. i wasnt sure if i should list him since he isnt "really" a jazz bassist. more of a funk/groove bassist like Bootsy Collins that had the sense of jazz, but didnt play jazz
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Dick Heath
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Posted: February 28 2008 at 12:51 |
Tell me more about Patrick O'Hearn's jazz output
To add to your list
Jonas Hellborg
Jack Bruce
Colin Hodgkinson
Steve Swallow
Jimmy Johnson
Jeff Berlin
Steve Lawson
Hugh Hopper
Matthew Garrison
Michael Manring
Hadrian Feraud
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Charlie Haden
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BaldJean
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Posted: February 28 2008 at 13:21 |
 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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The Quiet One
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Posted: February 28 2008 at 13:28 |
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Stanley Clark and Jaco!
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Dick Heath
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Posted: February 28 2008 at 16:43 |
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Definitely Eberhard Weber; also amongst the modern double bass players add Miroslav Vitous and Rob Wasserman
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dwill123
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Posted: February 28 2008 at 19:32 |
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Richard Bona
Edited by dwill123 - February 28 2008 at 19:50 |
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jammun
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Posted: February 28 2008 at 20:09 |
Yep, but as the old saying goes he had the ability to keep his head while all those around him were losing theirs.
He's a big part of why those albums work.
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Utah Man
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Posted: February 28 2008 at 23:49 |
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Patrick O'Hearn. Most of his music ends up being placed in the "New Age" category though. Outstanding keyboardist / Composer too. . |
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Intruder
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Posted: February 29 2008 at 05:52 |
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The jazz bass performance that sold me on jazz in general when I was but a wee lad.....Richard Davis' bass playing on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks....still kills me.
Scott LaFarow....telepathic interplay with Bill Evans and Paul Motian.
Stanley Clark....but really only on the early RTF, I never liked his commerical funky stuff, to Kool and the Gang for me. Jimmy Garrison....with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones in those early 60s Coltrane quartets. Billy HIggins, Ray Brown, Bob Crenshaw....too many to list. |
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Sean Trane
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Posted: February 29 2008 at 08:26 |
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Percy Jones
Dave Holland Ron Carter Charles Mingus Marcus Miller Alphonso Johnson Jonas Hellborg
Jack Bruce
Hugh Hopper
Colin Hodgkinson
Michael Manring
Charlie Haden
Danny Thompson (although most known as a folk bassist, he was the jazz elements in Pentangle)
Although I am a serious (Col)Trane fan, I always thought of Garrison as the weak link in his quartet.
I took out Pastorius (can't stand his ultra demonstrative show-offy playing) and S Clarke ( overdoing it as well)
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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BaldJean
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Posted: February 29 2008 at 08:50 |
haven't heard Rob Wassermann yet, but a definite "yes" to Miroslav Vitous |
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darkshade
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Posted: February 29 2008 at 14:52 |
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forgot about Gary Willis
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Dick Heath
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Posted: February 29 2008 at 17:32 |
Check him out on John Martyn's Live At Leeds joining with free jazz drummer John Stevens as the rhythm section. Martyn's folk blues really has a jazz tinge with these guys on board. Also Danny Thompson has at least one solo album, Whatever, on Hannibal Records, which is well crafted hybrid of jazz and Anglo-celt folk. |
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Nightfly
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Posted: March 01 2008 at 06:03 |
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Dave Holland and Jaco Pastorius are probably my favourites.
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BaldJean
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Posted: March 01 2008 at 06:40 |
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with a twinkle in the eye I could say "Barbara Dennerlein"
 , anyone who has ever seen her will know what I mean
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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anekglagard
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Posted: March 01 2008 at 20:12 |
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Jaco and Mingus :)
edit: Forgot about Stanley Clarke too! :) Edited by anekglagard - March 01 2008 at 20:12 |
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