Dave Holland – Bass Another one from my main man – I have been listening to this guy for decades. This one is from a lesser known album Holland did with Chilean singer Claudia Acuna. The tune is the standard ‘Nature Boy’ but the arrangement is really interesting – you really cannot phone this one…

Wally Lowe – Bass I loved this band back then and this was one of their best albums. I think this track was a ‘bonus track’ on a later release and did not feature on the original album (it may have been a B-side to a single?). Anyway, it is here as the result of…

Jasper Høiby – Bass Høiby started to play the double bass in Denmark before he moved to the UK in 2001 to study at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, where he got into the London jazz scene. His time at the Academy led to membership of the Loop Collective, where he later collaborated…

Jimmy Johnson – Bass Allan Holdsworth has played with some great bassists in his time and I was a massive fan of his trio with Jeff Berlin but, when he brought on board Flim Johnson, I had great expectations because I had already been a fan of Johnson through his work on the first three…

Gary Willis – Bass These are such strong bass parts. The first two Tribal tech albums were really important for me at the time they came out and it is wonderful to be able to revisit them with the new technology of MOISES and Transcribe! The detail is exquisite and there is so much to…

Carlos Henriquez – Bass Another from the Marsalils stable, the tune ‘Feeling Of Jazz’ was a Diane Reeves features vocal tune from the 2004 Wynton Marsalis album, ‘The Magic Hour’. This ol’ New Orleans stuff is great. Henriquez plays some great down home bass at a tempo that most of us will deal with reasonably…

Bob Hurst – Bass Well, you can’t say I didn’t try. This NOT a complete transcription but it is the ‘bass part’ from the tune. I tries to get teh solo down but it is all over the place in terms of its phrasing and to say it is ‘loose’ is the understatement of the…

Chris Squire – Bass A simple but interesting line from the King of Prog Bass, Mr. Christopher Russell Edward Squire. As the only bass player with Yes during his lifetime (I think – ABWH doesn’t count) he defines the genre to the point where todays Prog seen is littered with Rickenbackers and growling basses (I…

Charnett Moffett – Bass Another from the discography of Wynton Marsalis, this is a ‘throwaway’ piece from the 1985 Wynton Marsalis ablum, ‘Black Codes (From The Underground)’. It was probably improvised on the spot for the purposes of creating an extra track to make sure there was enough material for a full album but I…

Carlos Henriquez – Bass I came upon this album earlier this year. It came out in 2007 but I missed it completely and only found it by accident when I was shopping for something else by Marsalis online. The album is called ‘From The Plantation To The Penitentiary’ and features long-standing Marsalis sideman Carlos Henriquez…