Bass Player: Reginald 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 went on…

Bass Player: Charlie Haden Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American 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 Brendt…

Bass Player: Dusty Hill Joe Michael Hill (May 19, 1949 – July 28, 2021) was an American musician who was the bassist of the band ZZ Top. He also sang lead and backing vocals, and played keyboards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of ZZ Top in 2004. Hill played…

Bass Player: Dusty Hill Joe Michael Hill (May 19, 1949 – July 28, 2021) was an American musician who was the bassist of the band ZZ Top. He also sang lead and backing vocals, and played keyboards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of ZZ Top in 2004. Hill played…

Bass Player: David Hood David Hood (born September 21, 1943) hales from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He also plays the trombone. He is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. Hood started his career playing with the Mystics and as a backup musician at FAME Studios. He went on to co-found Muscle Shoals Sound Studio where…

Bass Player: Robert Hurst III Robert Hurst was born on October 4, 1964. Hurst played guitar early in his career before concentrating on bass. He worked with Out Of The Blue in 1985 and also did work with drummer Tony Williams, pianist Mulgrew Miller and Geri Allen, guitarist Russell Malone, singer Harry Connick Junior and saxophonist…

Bass Player: Gerald Cannon Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Gerald’s initial inspiration was his father Benjamin, a guitarist, who bought him his first electric bass at the ripe young age of 10. He began playing bass in his father’s group ‘The Gospel Expressions’ and he never looked back. Gerald attended The University of Wisconsin at La Crosse…

Bass Player: Lincoln Goines The bass parts to Mike Stern tunes are great to transcribe because they tend to be concise and accurately performed without a massive amount of nuanced improvisation. Stern’s compositions quite often hinge of repetitive riffs that allow for that ‘call and response’ thing that he likes to solo over; written riff…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Back to the 1975 Rush album, ‘Fly By Night’ and the Alex Lifeson penned tune ‘Beneath, Between and Behind’. Some solid playing (and a great bass tone’ from the bass of Geddy Lee. A nice tight little line wonderfully executed by Canada’s finest and a great introduction to ‘the new guy’,…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson Another monster bass part from the king of the big six, Anthony Jackson. Jackson was the first call player for guitarist Al Di Meola for many years and it is likely that this was because Jackson was one of the few players in the World who could execute the unison lines…