Étienne Mbappé – Bass Étienne Mbappé, originally from Bonendale, a village in Douala, Cameroon, is a Cameroonian musician. He began to study guitar on his own, and when he arrived in France in 1978, he enrolled at the Chevilly-Larue Conservatory to study classical guitar and, then, classical double bass in 1981–1983. In 1985, he joined the great orchestra of Rido Bayonne with which he…

Mike Rutherford – Bass Another from the Genesis catalogue, this one from one of the later Pop-orientated stuff, The tune is ‘No Reply At All’ from the 1981 album, ‘ABACAB’ (I can’t believe it was over 40 years ago). It’s a very strange form and this is one where you have to concentrate and actually…

Hans Glawischnig – Bass I have done a few transcription of HG performances but, like a few other players, most of his tuff is so difficult to play and to hear that I am only able to manage his ‘easy’ tunes. Glawischnig is Miguel Zenon’s first call bass player so he is on a lot…

Mike Rutherford – Bass A massively underrated bass player, transcribing Rutherford’s lines has revealed a creativity that is matched by few. There are sections on this tune that require an astonishing facility and it will be a struggle for people to get the articulation without using a pick, but using a pick requires a level…

Christian McBride – Bass McBride was born in Philadelphia on May 31, 1972. After starting on bass guitar, McBride switched to double bass. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts and studied at the Juilliard School. Bride was heralded as a teen prodigy when he joined saxophonist Bobby Watson’s group, Horizon, at the…

Jeff Berlin – Bass This is more of an approximation than a transcription and shows my inadequacies as much as anything. I love this video. JB can be overly chopsy for me sometimes and I don’t really like his versions of ‘Imagine’ and ‘Tears In Heaven’ as I think these are both tunes where the…

Anthony Jackson – Bass Another request, although this is a tune I have long adored, this is the opening track of Michel Petrucciani’s 1989 album, ‘Music’. I got to see Petrucciani with AJ and Steve Gadd at the Brecon Jazz Festival in, I think, 1998 (Petrucciani died in ’99) and I remember it very well…

Seth Govan – Bass Here is about two and a half minutes of Seth Govan’s playing on his brother Guthrie’s tune, Hangover, from the 2006 Guthrie Govan album, ‘Erotic Cakes’. I stopped at the 2:38 mark as things get impossible to hear, never mind write down. Seth is from down the road from where I…

Steve Rodby – Bass I believe I read it in the Pat Metheny Songbook, that this tune was Metheny’s attempt at doing something like those great Earth, Wind & Fire records with the harmonised vocals but mainstream pop music this isn’t. The whole thing is a masterpiece of melody, rhythm and harmony. It is also.…

Dusty Hill – Bass Hill was born in Dallas, Texas. As a child, he began performing music with his brother, Rocky Hill. In 1968, he and the drummer Frank Beard joined the guitarist Billy Gibbons in ZZ Top; they went on to release albums including the bestselling Eliminator (1983). Hill favored simple compositions and a “big”, distorted sound. Critics described his basslines as a critical…