Bass Player: Anthony Jackson Anthony Jackson’s CV is absolutely astonishing and runs into hundreds of albums – in fact, let’s stick it up here!!! As co-leader Easy Pieces by Easy Pieces (Steve Ferrone, Renee Geyer, Anthony Jackson, Hamish Stuart) (A&M, 1988) Trio in Tokyo with Michel Petrucciani, Steve Gadd (Dreyfus, 1999) Interspirit with Yiorgos Fakanas (Abstract Logix, 2010) As studio musician or guest[edit]…

Bass Player: Bert Ruiter Focus are a Dutch progressive rock band formed in Amsterdan in 1969 by keyboard/vocalist/flute player Thijs Van Leer anbd Jan Akkerman. The line-up has changed throughout the life of the band but their biggest hit remains the tune ‘Sylvia’ from the 1972 album, Focus 3. The bass player on that track…

Bass Player: Mike Rutherford Mike Rutherford is more than simply a bass player and, with the legendary Prog band, Genesis, has played bass, guitar, Taurus bass pedals and backing vocals. More importantly, however, he is a composer and arranger and his writing has been a major element in the success of Genesis since their origins…

Bass Player: Dave LaRue Dave LaRue is the bass player with the virtuoso rock group Flying Colors. He is also a long-time member of the instrumental groups the Steve Morse Band and the Dixie Dregs. LaRue’s technical prowess is formidable among other jazz-fusionists, but his unique talent is to project his virtuosity with remarkable soul…

Bass Player: Tony Reeves In or around 1974, keyboard player Dave Greenslade disbanded his group, Greenslade, and produced his first solo album, ‘Cactus Choir’. Whilst he did not play on all of the album (Dave Markee and John G. Perry performed on some tracks), Tony Reeves, the bass player from the Greenslade band, was the…

Bass Player: Tom Hill A band that had it’s own moderate successes, Geordie are primarily known as the band that AC/DC’s Brian Johnson led before joining Australia’s finest. A request from a member at Talkbass, this is the bass part for the tune ‘Going Down’ from the band’s 1974 album, ‘Don’t Be Fooled By The…

Bass Player: Andy Gonzalez Originally released in 1989, Astor Piazzolla’s The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night was recorded in New York in September 1987, with an ensemble that included Fernando Suárez Paz (violin), Pablo Zinger (piano), Paquito D’Rivera (alto sax, clarinet), Andy González (bass), and Rodolfo Alchourrón (electric guitar). The recording was produced by Kip Hanrahan…

Bass Player: Dik Cadbury From a musical family, classically trained in childhood as a violinist and vocalist, he organised his London singing lessons to coincide with attending rock and R&B gigs at the MArquee Club. He began playing career in 1971 with jug Folk band Totem. He joined Decameron in 1973 following the release of…

Bass Player: Chuck Rainey (?) CHuck Rainey is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franking, Steely Dan and Quicy Jones. Rainey is credited for playing bass on more than 1,000 albums and, alongside Lee Sklar, Ron Carter, Will Lee and Carol Kaye, is considered the most recorded…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another one from the Lifesigns ‘Live In London – Under The Bridge’ CD/DVD, this is Jon Poole’s bass part from the closing track, ‘Carousel’. Some really challenging reading on this one due to the Db key signature and the chromatic key movement in some sections of the tune. In short, you…