Bass Player: Kyle Brock  Kyle Brock came from Abilene, TX to attend Southwest Texas State University and then St. Edwards University. He toured and wrote music for Eric Johnson Group from 1987 until 1995 and the attached video comes from a Johnson gig. It is a very brief (less than one minute) Country bass solo. Not…

Bass Player: Not applicable This is a transcription of the theme from the tune ‘Odissea Veneziana’ from the weird Pop/Classical hybrid act ‘Rondo Veneziano. Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section. The ensemble was led by Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin A lesser known Jeff Berlin performance, this is the bass part to the tune ‘Foxy Morons’ from the 2005 album by an all-star group including Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin, David Fiuczynski and T. Lavitz. The transcription is the ‘bass’ part and does not include Jeff’s distorted bass solo that precedes the…

Bass Player : Jeff Andrews Another great Mike Stern tune and another great Jeff Andrews performance, this is the bass part for the tune ‘Chromazone’ from the 1988 Stern album, ‘Time In Place’. A monster bass part, heavily syncopated but mostly written (there are a couple of fills). Jeff Andrews was a major player in…

Bass Player: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen   This transcription is only a head chart of a tune called ‘I’ve Got Another Rhythm’. Written by trumpet player Allan Botchinsky, the tune was features on a 1992 duo album he did with double bassist Neils Henning Ørsted Pedersen called ‘Duologue’. The tune is a contrafact and is based…

Bass Player: Joe Mondragon Joe Mondragon (February 2, 1920 – July 1987) was self taught on the bass, and began working professionally in Los Angeles. He served in the Army during WWII and then joined Woddy Herman’s First Herd in 1946. Over the next two decades, he became one of the more popular studio bassists for…

Bass Player: Rob Amster Who the hell is Rob Amster? Not a household name, even amongst bass players but Amster played with some real heavyweights in his time including Buddy Rich, Pepper Adams, Maynard Ferguson, Fareed Haque and Kurt Elling. It is with Elling that Amster recorded this most engaging vocal/bass duet, ‘The Waking’, from…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson A fairly obscure recording, the album ‘French Toast’ by a band of the same name featured a roster of A-list players including pianist Michel Camilo, alto saxoophonist Jerry Dodgion, French Horn player, Peter Gordon, trumpeter Lew Soloff, drummers Steve Gadd and Dave Weckl and the legendary Anthony Jackson on bass. The…

Bass Player: Will Lee The World’s Most Dangerous Bass Player, Will Lee has been the first call guy for everyone forever and has a list of credits as long as the longest thing in the world. The list in includes Donald Fagan, Barry Manilow, Art Farmer, Cat Stevens, Pat Metheny, Chaka Khan, Dusty Springfield, Michael…

Bass Player: John Wetton John Kenneth Wetton (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was an English singer, bassist, guitarist, and songwriter. He was born in Willington, Derbyshire, and grew up in Bournemouth, Dorset. Between 1972- 1982, he rose to fame fronting the bands King Crimson, U.K. and Asia. Notable work as a bass guitarist and backing…