Renaud Garcia-Fons – Bass Another folksy tune from the mind of French bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons, this one with the bass player in the traditional role of bass playing – no stratospheric arco playing this time, just traditional rooted bass playing. There are challenges, however, as the piece is in 5:4 or 5:8 depending on how…

Renaud Garcia-Fons – Bass Another from the greatest export from France since Brie. This is one of those pieces that jumps back and forth between pizzicato and arco players. I wouldn’t worry too much about the swap over because you probably won’t be able to play either part! That’s actually not true but I suspect…

Bob Hurst – Bass A massively underrated player (there are several transcriptions of his on here and they are all goldmines), Bob Hurst was a mainstay in the early Marsalis bands, both Wynton and Branford and probably the other siblings and Dad too! This is the complete and fantastic part from the tune ‘Uptown Ruler’…

Bob Hurst – Bass Robert L. Hurst III (born October 4, 1964) is an American jazz bassist and educator. Hurst played guitar early in his career before concentrating on bass. He performed with the jazz group Out of the Blue in 1985 and also did work with musicians including Tony Williams, Mulgrew Miller, Harry Connick Jr., Geri Allen, Russell Malone, and Steve Coleman. From 1986 to 1991, Hurst…

Dennis Irwin – Bass Irwin attended North Texas State University with Norman Wisdom, studying classical music. Although he started out playing alto sax and clarinet (achieving first chair All State clarinet while at Westchester High School in Houston) he soon switched to the bass and joined the university’s band. After working with pianist |Red Garland…

Phil Bowler – Bass Bowler, Phil, bass. b. 2 March 1948. He received a Baccalureate degree in double bass from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford Connecticut. He started studying the Violin at age 13, then some weeks later went to study the Cello. A couple of months later, when he was tall enough,…

Renaud Garcia-Fons – Bass Garcia-Fons has a reputation for incredibly sophisticated bow techniques that utilise specific sounds that are not often heard in double bass playing and his use of the 5-string means he has a higher range than most bass players. Despite this reputation, he does write some pretty tunes, folkish in tone rather…

John Gustafson – Bass John Frederick “Johnny” Gustafson (8 August 1942 – 12 September 2014) was an English bass guitar player and singer, who had a lengthy recording and live performance career. During his career, he was a member of the bands The Big Three, The Merseybeats, Quatermass, Roxy Music, The Pirates and Ian Gillan Band. Gustafson was another early convert to Wal basses…

Willie Weeks – Bass Weeks was born in Salemburg, North Carolina, and began playing the electric bass in the early 1960s. His earliest influences were the country, pop and R&B music he heard on the radio. Weeks counts bassists Ron Carter, James Jamerson, and Ray Brown as early influences. Weeks has worked in the studio or toured with a wide range of artists, including Gregg Allman, David Bowie, Jimmy Buffett, Kevin Chalfant, Eric Clapton, Hank Crawford, Bo…

John Perry – Bass The man who ‘invented/ the Wal bass (reportedly, Ian Waller, a friend of Perry’s, built the first Wal bass to his specifications). John G. Perry is an American-born British bass player and singer. He was born in the U.S. to British parents and moved back to the UK when he was young. In…