Bass Player: Not applicable ‘Bolero’ is a one- movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel’s most famous musical composition. (courtesy Wikipedia) Boléro – Wikipedia The transcription is the melody which repeats…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin Another chart from the 1985 Jeff Berlin solo album on Passport Records, ‘Champion’, these are the dots for the tune ‘Three Nighter’. With the exception on on bar of sixteenth notes, this chart is generally fairly playable. The bass part under the guitar solo is not transcribed as it would take…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin Another transcription from Jeff Berlin’s 1985 solo debut album, ‘Champion’, this is a transcription of the power ballad ‘What I Know Now’. A lovely arrangement featuring Jeff playing the melody and some great soloing from Scott Henderson. Some really challenging fills and a gorgeous key change, the chart intermittently goes from…

Bass Player: Chris Squire Up until this point in the Yes catalogue, the progress of the band was uncontroversial. A new drummer here and a new keyboard player there and a new guitar player all came and made their subtle and nuanced mark on the Yes sound. In 1980, however, things took a very strange…

Bass Player: Lincoln Goines A major figure of the New York City Jazz/Latin/studio scene since the early 1980s, Goines’ career includes performance credits as sideman to: Sonny Rollins, Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, Dave Valentin, Carly Simon, Bob Berg, Jeff Golub, Bob Mintzer, Dizzy Gillespite, Wayen Krantz – this goes on. He is also a highly…

Bass Player: Rob Palmer (Bilbo) During the late Noughties, Bilbo was a member of an Ipswich (UK) based Latin band called ‘Albino Cubana’. The band was a seveb piece outfit that included Bilbo on bass, Michel Cereso (vocs and flute), Phil Grave (kyb), the late Gene Perry (g), Paul Sheppard (trom), John Jermy (tr), Jon…

Bass Player: Rubens Sabino Gilberto Gil is the voice of Brazil. His 1997 album ‘Soy Loco Por Ti America’ features Gil’s usual stable of Brazilian musicians including Ruben (Rubao) Sabino Da Silva, WE have been unable to find any substantive information about Sabino beyond his work with Gil and sessions with Tim Maia and the…

Guitar Player: Steve Howe A bit of fun with this one. Steve Howe recorded this tune on his 1979 album, imaginatively entitled, ‘The Steve Howe Album’. It is essentially an unadorned performance of the Second Movement of a Vivaldi Concerto in D Major. It is performed originally on lute but Howe transposed it onto guitar.…

Bass Player: Tony Banks ‘A Curious Feeling’ was the début solo album from Genesis keyboard player Tony Banks. It was recorded at Abba’s Polar Music Studios during a brief Genesis hiatus and released in 1979 on Charisma Records. It is one of only two of Banks’ solo albums to have entered the UK Albums Chart,…

Bass Player: Darryl Jones Another tune from The Munch. This is Darryl Jones’s bass part to the tune ‘Techno’ from the 1986 John Scofield album ‘Still Warm’. The part is generally a one bar riff with fills, a modulation up a fourth for a second, albeit similar riff, then return to the original riff until…