Dave Holland – Bass Another monster Holland chart – 11 pages in all (the tune is 9:18 long). I did a rehearsal recently with a couple of guys locally and the piano player, whose name, by a strange quirk of fate, is actually Dave Holland, pulled out three Dave Holland charts (no he didn’t try…

Joe Dart – Bass Joe Dart first picked up a bass at the age of eight, when his parents suggested that he and his siblings form a family band.The family band never materialized, but Dart stuck with it, and soon developed a love for the instrument, and for the bass-driven funk and soul music of the…

Tim Esau – Bass I think they call it Neo-Prog – the movement of Prog Rock bands that arose from the post-Marillion/Pallas/Twelfth Night/Solstice/IQ bands that proliferated at The Marquee in London and took to the stage at the Readign Rock Festival in the early 1980s. I believe all of these bands are still going in…

Glenn Hughes – Bass Another bucket list translation. I was in a band called No Quarter that hailed from the South Wales area and everyone suggested had something of Led Zeppelin about them (I couldn’t hear it, myself but the other guys were big fans) but I had a secret preference for Deep Purple. I…

Jimmy Bain – Bass I still think that the 1976 Rainbow ‘Rising’ album is the greatest Rock album of all time and this is the opening track from that album. There is a 90 second synth intro on the record and Don Airey remains arguably the most important Rock keyboard player next to Deep Purple’s…

Jeff Berlin – Bass A simple one from the King of the Impossible, this is another from that duo of albums that Berlin did with guitarist Kazumi Watanabe and drummer Bill Bruford. Watanabe has worked with all of the great electric players; Marcus Miller, Jeff Berlin, Richard Bona, Janek Gwizdala etc and there some major…

Delbert Felix – Bass Delbert Felix (born c. 1958 in St. Helena) is an American jazz bassist. Felix’s father was a bandleader; in high school, he first played euphonium before switching to electric bass, influenced by George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic. After studying at Florida A&M University, he transferred to the Berklee School of Music in Boston. There he met Branford Marsalis. After graduating in 1981,…

Dave Holland – Bass This track features two women who deserve all the praise that they get. Vocalist Cassandra Wilson lends her signature smoky vocals to this wonderful Holland composition which features the poetry of another legend, this time of African American literature, Maya Angelou. The tune is ‘Equality’ from the 1996 Dave Holland Quartet…

Reginald Veal – Bass Reginald Swingdoom’ Veal was the bass player with a host of projects in and around the legendary Marsalis family and his discography includes recordings with Wynton, Branford and Ellis Marsalis as well as Pharoah Sanders, Elvin Jones, Charlie Rouse, Hamiet Bluiett, Harry Connick Jr., Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison and Marcus Roberts. I…

Jorge Casas – Bass The one band I would not refuse to do a tribute band for! Miami Sound Machine were the band that launched the career of Gloria Estefan who made some great records in her own right, fusing Latin rhythms with 80s Pop and Funk. There are some monster arrangements and some great…