Chuck Rainey – Bass Another one from the catalogue of Messrs. Becker and Fagen, this is the complete Chuck Rainey part for the tune ‘Josie’ which closed the original 1977 Steely Dan album ‘Aja’. I am not entirely sure what Rainey is doing it; it sounds like a king of hybrid slapping which doesn’t use…

Chuck Rainey – Bass Rainey was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 17, 1940, and grew up in Youngstown. His parents were both amateur pianists. He learned viola, piano, and trumpet as a child and majored in brass instruments in college. He attended Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee. Rainey began playing guitar in the military. After college he played guitar in a local…

Stefano De Donato – Bass Another one from the same player and the same band. The tune is called ‘Jesahel’ and was featured on the 1997 Dirotta Su Cuba recording, ‘È Andata Così’ It’s essentially the same four bars repeated with a couple of asides so not a massive challenge to actually play but some…

Stefano De Donato – Bass I don’t know anything about this band or this guy. Internet says they are an Italian band from the 1990s. Someone asked for it on a Facebook forum so here we are. It’s a fun kind of ’80s’ thing and reminds me of the kind so things Go West and…

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…