Dave Holland – Bass There was a series of Dave Holland Quintet albums in the 1980s that came out on the ECM record label which featured Steve Coleman, Kenny Wheeler, Robin Eubanks and Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith. For this was one of those bands that was greater than the sum of it’s parts and it is…

Hans Glawischnig – Bass I love these tunes and I love Miguel Zenon’s composition energy but, hell, these parts are impossible. This transcription is the first improvised part only on the tune ‘Jibaro’ from the 2006 Zenon album of the same name. It is very quick so you will probably need to spend some time…

Phil Lynott – Bass I loved this Thin Lizzy live album when I was a kid and this track was a favourite for reasons I cannot recall. It was only when I came to transcribe it that I discovered that it was written by Lynott and Brian Downey, not by one of the guitar players.…

Unknown – Bass There are four different bass players listed on the discographies linked to this album; Chris Laurence, Chuck Berghofer, Mary Scully and Mike Brittain. My money is on Berghofer but I have no way of checking. As musical and sensitively executed as it is, though, the real heroes of this record are arranger…

Dave Holland – Bass Well that was a roast! Transcribing ‘complete performances’ is a challenge when you are looking at players with the levels of creativity of someone like Dave Holland. These are complete forms, complex harmony and complex phrases played on an instrument that can easily get lost in the mix and they do…

Mike Rutherford – Bass This tune came upon on my YouTube on one of those reaction videos (not sure what all THAT is about). It was the Gabriel version from ‘Selling England By The Pound’ (1973). I grew up immersed in the ‘Second’s Out’ version with Phil Collins on vocals. Great piece of writing across…

John Patitucci – Bass I love solo double bass performances much more than I do solo electric bass; the results are generally more musical and more satisfying (there are exceptions but, as a general rule….). John Patitucci has done several solo double bass pieces over the years and this one of from his 2019 (mostly)…

Barak Mori – Bass Barak Mori (Bass, Composer) has been one of the New York jazz scene’s most sought after musicians since 1998. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1975, Mori began playing the organ at age seven, and by the age of 13 was playing jazz on the guitar and electric bass. At age…

Larry Klein – Bass Larry Klein began his career as a bassist, playing with jazz artists Willie Bobo, Freddie Hubbard, Carmen McRae, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, and Dianne Reeves. As a bass player he has also worked with artists such as Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Peter Gabriel, Don Henley, Lindsey Buckingham, Randy Newman, and Joni Mitchell. As a record producer, Klein is a four-time Grammy Award winner, for his…

Max Bennett – Bass Another one of those timeless Joni Mitchell tunes, this is the complete Max Bennett bass performance on the tune ‘Song For Sharon’ from the 1976 Joni Mitchell album ‘Hejira’. I love that little D/Eb phrase at the end of every chorus but what I find interesting is that he does it…