Bass Player: Dave LaRue Another one of Steve Morse’s Faux-classical fugue like compositions with Dave LaRue riding shotgun. ‘Slice Of Time’ is from the 1995 Morse album, ‘Structural Damage’. The transcription is profoundly challenging as it jumps around the neck a lot and the note choices take you into and out of different octaves in…

Bass Player: Victor Bailey Born in Philadelphia, on 27 March 1960, Victor Randall Bailey was raised by a highly musical family. His father, Morris Bailey Jr., was an active musician and composer, while his uncle, Donald “Duck” Bailey, was a jazz drummer, who played on numerous Blue Note records (e.g., Jimmy Smith Trio, Hampton Hawes, Carmen McRae, Dizzy Gillespie). As a…

Bass Player: Charlie Haden Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. In the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet. Haden revolutionized the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz. German musicologist Joachim-Ernst Berendt wrote that Haden’s…

Bass Player: Will Lee The busiest bass player in the world? Possibly. We daren’t post his CV here as it would probably crash the site. Suffice to say, Lee has played with everyone from Gary Burton and Pat Metheny to Cher, Sheena Easton and Barbara Streisand. He is difficult to miss, his discography is so…

Bass Player: Robert Hurst Who is Robert Leslie Hurst III? For the uninitiated, here is a selected discography As leader Robert Hurst Presents: Robert Hurst (Columbia, 1992) One for Namesake (Sony, 1993) Unrehurst, Vol. 1 (Bebob, 2002) Unrehurst, Vol. 2 (Bebob, 2010) Bob Ya Head (Bebob, 2010) Bob: A Palindrome (Bebob, 2013) Black Current Jam (Dot Time, 2017) As sideman With Chris Botti…

Bass Player: Rick Wills Rick Wills played in the early days of rock music in Cambridge, from c. 1961 in the Vikings, then in a succession of local bands: the Sundowners, Soul Committee, Bullitt (with David Gilmour on guitar and John ‘Willie’ Wilson on drums) and Cochise before joining Frampton’s Camel. Wills joined the rock band Jokers Wild in mid-1966, (with David Gilmour on guitars and vocals),…

Bass Player: Reginald Veal Veal is primarily known as the bass player for several of Wynton Marsalis’s bands in the 1980s and 1990s. He is featured on many of the Marsalis recordings from that era including the astonishing 7-cd boxed set ‘Live At The Village Vanguard’. Amongst the other Marsalis recordings he contributed to, Veal…

Bass Player: Doug Ferguson Doug Ferguson was the bass guitarist of the band Camel from September 20th 1971 to January 1977. Before he played with Camel, Doug played in a jazz orientated trio called The Brew, along with Camel members Andrew Latimer and Andy Ward. Doug Ferguson was the one who suggested Andy Ward should…

Bass Player: Carlito Henriquez For nearly two decades, Carlos Henriquez, 39, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s bass specialist. In that role, he’s accompanied the band on some of its most memorable forays, including a historic 2010 trip to Cuba, for which he also served as music director. In recent years, the Bronx…

Bass Player: Jimmy Garrison Garrison was raised in both Miami and Philadelphia where he learned to play bass. Garrison came of age in the 1950s Philadelphia jazz scene, which included fellow bassists Reggie Workman and Henry Grimes, pianist McCoy Tyner and trumpeter Lee Morgan. Between 1957 and 1962, Garrison played and recorded with trumpeter Kenny Dorham; clarinetist Tony Scott; drummer Philly Joe Jones; and saxophonists Bill Barron, Lee Konitz,…