Palle Danielsson – Bass Nils Paul “Palle” Danielsson (15 October 1946 – 18 May 2024) was a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1974 to 1979, he was a member of Keith Jarrett’s quartet. Danielsson’s first instrument was the harmonica, which he started playing at the age of two. By age eight he was playing violin, which he continued…

Reginald Veal – Bass This one is a prelude to the tune ‘Uptown Ruler’ from the 1991 Marsalis album, ‘Uptown Ruler: Soul Gestures In Southern Blue, Vol. 2’ (it repeats at the end of side 2 and ‘bookends the whole album although the one at the end sees the ostinato played an actave lower). The…

Louis Armstrong – Trumpet I first heard this song on the soundtrack top the 1993 Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks film, ‘Sleepless In Seattle’ and fell in love with it immediately. It never ceases to bring a smile to my face. It is not muso territory, just pure entertainment but the trumpet solo is something else. Pure…

Jorge Roeder – Bass I love this little album, Sofia Rei and Jorge Roeder’s ‘Coplas Escondidas’. I happened upon it on Bandcamp and have been enjoying it since. Roeder’s bass is sol well recorded (and played, of course). The tune here is ‘Prestados’ which is an Argentine Tango. I believe it is written by Sofia…

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – Bass The is a tune from a album that the great Danish bassist did with pianist Kenny Drew in 1973. I came across this CD (and the second companion CD) in a Charity shop yesterday and though this was lovely. The tune is called ‘ ‘ which Google Translate tells me…

Ron Carter – Bass Ron Carter is arguably one of the most recorded bass players in Jazz and has appeared with pretty much every major Jazz artist in the last 60 years or more. he actually went to school with Paul Chambers, the bass player he replaced in the Miles Davis Quintet although the two…

Christian McBride – Bass A simple performance on the melody of the tune “Where Are You?“, a popular song composed by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson. The song was written for the 1937 film ‘Top Of The Town’ but has become a Jazz standard that has been recorded by everyone. It is simple enough and…

Matt Penman – Bass This one is only an excerpt and features only the first 1:23. It came up on my mp3 player which is on shuffle. I love what the SFJazz Collective are doing. They get together for a few weeks every year for the SF Jazz Festival and play some incredibly creative arrangements…

Dave Holland – Bass From the 2001 Dave Holland Quintet album, ‘Not For Nothin”, this is the complete Holland bass performance of the tune ‘Go Fly A Kite’. There are some struggles in transcribing this one as I hear the tune in 6:8 but some of Holland’s phrasing moves out of that and into 3:4.…

John Benitez – Bass Grammy award-winning latin bassist John Benitez cut his teeth in Puerto Rico and has made a name for himself through his work with many well-known American and Latin artists. Bassist/composer/arranger John Benitez was a widely acclaimed musician in the jazz, R&B, and Latin scenes in his native Puerto Rico by the…