Bass Player: John Giblin John Giblin was one of the two bass players that featured on the 1979 Brand X album ‘Product’ and it’s follow-up, ‘Do They Hurt’ which was released the following year. The received wisdom is that there were two line-ups, one that featured Giblin with Phil Collins on drums and a second…

Bass Player: William Parker William Parker (born January 10, 1952) is an American free jazz double bassist, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and composer.[1] Beginning in the 1980s, Parker played with Cecil Taylor for over a decade, and he has led the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra since 1981. The Village Voice named him “the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time” and DownBeat has…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson In 1984, pianist Michel Camilo took part in his first recording as a leader with a band called French Toast which, alongside Camilo, included trumpter player, Lew Solof, French Horn player Peter Gordon, alto saxophonist Jerry Dodgion, drummers Steve Gadd and Dave Weckl (on separate tracks) and percussionists  Gordon Gottlieb, Sammy Figueroa.…

Bass Player: Jeff Andrews Andrews’ biography details are found elsewhere on this website. The transcription is a head only chart for the tune ‘Bait Tone Blues’ from the 1996 Mike Stern album, ‘Between The Lines’. The tune is a straight 12-bar Jazz blues but the bass plays the head along with Stern and will test…

Bass Player: Larry Sims Loggins and Messina was an American Rock-Pop duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, who achieved their success in the early to mid-1970s. Among their well-known songs are “Danny’s Song”, “House at Pooh Corner“, and “Your Mama Don’t Dance“. After selling more than 16 million records and becoming one of the leading musical duos…

Bass Player: Kermit Driscoll Driscoll was born in Kearney, Nebraska. He began playing piano at age five. Soon after, he added saxophone, and at age thirteen he picked up the bass guitar. Almost immediately he was playing gigs around the midwest. When an offer to travel with a rock band came up, he dropped out of…

Bass Player: Benjamin F. Brown Form Wikipedia Benjamin Franklin Brown (born August 25, 1952, Opa-Locka, Florida) is an American Jazz double-bassist. Brown grew up in a musical family and initially learned piano before switching to guitar. He played briefly as a guitarist early in his professional career before studying bass formally at Miami Dade Junior College and the University of Miami,…

Bass Player: Reginald Veal Another complete Veal performance from the 1990 Wynton Marsalis ‘Standard Time Vol, 2: The Resolution To Romance’ album, this is the bass part to ‘Skylark’. One chorus – when one is enough, it’s enough.

Bass Player: Reginald ‘Swing Doom’ Veal Reginald Veal (born November 5, 1963) is an American jazz bassist and multi-instrumentalist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Veal grew up in New Orleans where he began piano lessons at a very early age. After receiving a bass guitar as a gift from his father at the age of eight, Veal…

Bass Player: Dave Holland One of the UK’s most celebrated double bass exports, Holland has lived in the US for several decades and continues to perform with a host of Jazz A-listers like John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Chris Potter, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Miles Davis, Anthony Braxton and many, many more. As well as being…