Dave LaRue – Bass I just posted ‘4 Minutes To Live’ and I thought it was unfair on Dave LaRue to represent him as a root player so I just knocked out this slightly more ambitious performance, the tune ‘Glad To Be’ from the same 1996 Steve Morse album, ‘Stressfest’. Not so easy this time,…

Dave LaRue – Bass Dave LaRue is one of the those bass players that can do almost anything including Rock, Funk, two-handed stuff and aggressive slap and pop. On this track, however, he isn’t doing anything like that and is pretty much staying on the roots and fives. Another easy read for those who are…

Zev Katz – Bass Zev Katz is a New Yorker and a bass player of vast experience. He’s been playing bass with some of the world’s finest musicians for 32 years. His credits are a ‘Who’s who’ of the finest singers, songwriters and composers of the past thirty years. The list is impressive: Aretha Franklin,…

Rudolphe Kreutzer – Composer One from another old dead bloke. Kreutzer was a mate of Beethoven who dedicated his Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 to him. Born 15 November 1766 and died 6 January 1831, Kreutzer as a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La Mort d’Abel (1810). I…

Hans Glawischnig – Bass Acoustic/ electric bassist and composer Hans Glawischnig grew up in Graz, Austria. His father, a pianist, leader of the free jazz group, The Neighbors, educator, and longtime chief conductor of the NDR big band in Hamburg, Germany, encouraged Hans to pursue a career in music. His American mother, having studied Art History,…

Mike Rutherford – Bass Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950) is an English guitarist, bassist and songwriter, best known as co-founder, lead guitarist and bassist of the rock band Genesis. He and keyboardist Tony Banks are the group’s two continuous members. Initially serving as Genesis’s bass guitarist and backing vocalist, Rutherford also performed most…

Eric Revis – Bass (From his website) – One of the most talented and accomplished musicians of his generation, Grammy Award-winning bassist and composer Eric Revis has firmly established himself as an important voice in jazz. Branford Marsalis states, “Eric’s sound is the sound of doom; big, thick, percussive.” Scores of musicians across various disciplines…

Anthony Jackson – Contrabasse Guitar What can anyone say about Anthony Jackson that hasn’t been said? He is undoubtedly one of the most original voices on our chosen instrument and is recognisable instantly in whatever context he performs. Chaka Khan (no relation), Michel Camilo, Hiromi, Al Di Meola – his note choices are incredibly personal…

Ralph Towner – Gutiar Ralph Towner (born March 1, 1940)[1] is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet and French horn.[2] Biography [edit] Towner was born into a musical family in Chehalis, Washington, United States. His mother was a piano teacher and his father a trumpet player. Towner learned to improvise on the piano at…

Al Di Meola – Guitar I feel able to include this chap as he is a bit of a failed bass player (like most guitarists). He has tried to record bass on a few tracks but, generally, his playing is a little stilted and he has to call upon other professional bass players to help…