Zach Cornish – Bass I saw these guys at the Summer’s End Prog festival in Chepstow yesterday (18th October, 2026). A very together outfit. The two Cornish brothers, Zach and Ben Cornish, and drummer Dan Aston are tighter than anything I have ever heard in a long time. As a trio, their sound is massive!…

Greg Cohen – Bass Cohen plays traditional jazz and other styles, including work with Ken Peplowski, Kenny Davern, Marty Grosz, and Woody Allen. He has also worked with Tom Waits, David Byrne, Elvis Costello, Dagmar Krause, David Sanborn, Susana Baca, Gal Costa, Marisa Monte, Laurie Anderson, Willie Nelson, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Dave Douglas, Tricky,…

Steve Swallow – Bass Steve Swallow and John Scofield have a playing relationship that goes all the way back to the guitarist’s earliest recordings, ‘Shinola’, ‘Out Like A Light’ and ‘Bar Talk’. The trio is still recording today, some fifty years or more later. Swallow is also a prolific composer and he wrote the track…

Bill Church – Bass Who is Bill Church? William ‘Bill’ Church started out playing bass in a band called Sawbuck in 1969, with Mojo Collins, Starr Donaldson, Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff. As the band was beginning to record their first album, Montrose and Church left Sawbuck to join Van Morrison on his Tupelo Honey…

Chris Minh Doky – Bass Chris Minh Doky (born 7 February 1969) is a Danish jazz bassist. He is the younger brother of jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky. He released his first album, Appreciation, in 1989 four years after picking up the instrument. As a sideman, he has collaborated with Mike Stern, Michael Brecker,Trilok Gurtu, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sanborn. His sound is often described as a blend…

Renaud Garcia-Fons – Bass This is actually an arco line from the French bass player Renaud Garcia Fons and features the first 2:16 of the title tune of his 2009 album. I stopped there because his arco solo which starts soon after is, frankly, beyond me. This can be played pizz on a double bass…

Tommy Shannon – Bass Tommy Shannon (born Thomas Lafitte Smedley; April 18, 1946) is best known as a member of Doube Trouble, a Blues/Rock band led by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Born in Tucson, Arizona, Shannon moved to Dumas, Texas, when he was nine, where he originally started as a guitarist, though he started playing bass at the…

Renaud Garcia-Fons – Bass I heard this when driving and thought that this section would make a great Etude. The piece is called ‘Bolbol’ and comes from the 2001 Renaud Garcia-Fons recording ‘Navigitore’. It is a twelve bar passage from the 3:23 point. It is 5:4 and is a challenging read for that reason alone…

Jeff Berlin – Bass Everyone knows about the Kazumi Watanabe Trio albums, ‘Spice Of Life’ and ‘Spice Of Life Too’ and the Mo’ Bop series with Marcus Miller and Richard Bona but there are a lot of people that have not happened upon the 2013 recording the Japanese guitarist undertook with Jeff Berlin and drummer…

Gary Willis – Bass A sombre piece from the 1999 Tribal Tech album, this is the title track ‘Thick’. It is essentially a two bar part that repeats through most of the performance but it got a bit dense so I pulled out. Whilst I only got about 3 minutes in, you can see how…