Paul Del Harwood – Bass Paul Del Harwood is one of those unsung heroes of our instrument. His work with Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush is absolute first class Rock bass and it is obvious that he has spent a lot of time listening to players outside of that idiom. There is a freshness about…

Bass Player: Wil Dog Abers Another one from the 1998 debut album for Latin Funk band Ozomatli, this is the complete Abers bass part to the tune ‘Donde Se Fueron’ – all on the off-beat so great for practising that Latin groove thang!

Bass Player: Wil Dog Abers Wil-Dog, also sometimes called “Breakdance Willy” as he is an accomplished break-dancer. His father was in the Revolutionary Communist Party, and he was raised mostly by his grandparents. From an early age, he saw, first-hand, police violence, racism, and anti-Semitis. He dropped out of high-school in the 11th grade and spent all…

Bass Player: Jonathan Davie Jon (Jonathan) Davie, is a bass guitar player with British folk rock bands including Gryphon and Home Service. He was also, using the name John Thomas, a member of The Banned, a British punk/new wave band in the late 1970s. Born in Hampton, Middlesex, on 6 September 1954, Davie’s professional career began when he joined Gryphon at the end of 1975,…

Bass Player: Dave LaRue Another one of Steve Morse’s Faux-classical fugue like compositions with Dave LaRue riding shotgun. ‘Slice Of Time’ is from the 1995 Morse album, ‘Structural Damage’. The transcription is profoundly challenging as it jumps around the neck a lot and the note choices take you into and out of different octaves in…

Bass Player: Victor Bailey Born in Philadelphia, on 27 March 1960, Victor Randall Bailey was raised by a highly musical family. His father, Morris Bailey Jr., was an active musician and composer, while his uncle, Donald “Duck” Bailey, was a jazz drummer, who played on numerous Blue Note records (e.g., Jimmy Smith Trio, Hampton Hawes, Carmen McRae, Dizzy Gillespie). As a…

Bass Player: Charlie Haden Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. In the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet. Haden revolutionized the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz. German musicologist Joachim-Ernst Berendt wrote that Haden’s…

Bass Player: Will Lee The busiest bass player in the world? Possibly. We daren’t post his CV here as it would probably crash the site. Suffice to say, Lee has played with everyone from Gary Burton and Pat Metheny to Cher, Sheena Easton and Barbara Streisand. He is difficult to miss, his discography is so…

Bass Player: Robert Hurst Who is Robert Leslie Hurst III? For the uninitiated, here is a selected discography As leader Robert Hurst Presents: Robert Hurst (Columbia, 1992) One for Namesake (Sony, 1993) Unrehurst, Vol. 1 (Bebob, 2002) Unrehurst, Vol. 2 (Bebob, 2010) Bob Ya Head (Bebob, 2010) Bob: A Palindrome (Bebob, 2013) Black Current Jam (Dot Time, 2017) As sideman With Chris Botti…

Bass Player: Rick Wills Rick Wills played in the early days of rock music in Cambridge, from c. 1961 in the Vikings, then in a succession of local bands: the Sundowners, Soul Committee, Bullitt (with David Gilmour on guitar and John ‘Willie’ Wilson on drums) and Cochise before joining Frampton’s Camel. Wills joined the rock band Jokers Wild in mid-1966, (with David Gilmour on guitars and vocals),…