Bass Player: Jon Poole Award for the best mug shot on the site, this is the bass part for the track ‘Gregarious’ from the 2021 Lifesigns album, ‘Altitude’. There is no attached video/Spotify recording as Lifesigns have a policy of not posting their recordings on streaming services. The album can be accessed through the Lifesigns…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another ‘full album’, the attached pdf comprises the whole of the 2021 Lifesigns album, ‘Altitude’ featuring the bass playing of Jon Poole. The pdf includes the tracks as follows: Altitude Gregarious Ivory Tower Shoreline Fortitude Last One Home There are two more tracks on the album, ‘Arkhangelsk’ and ‘Altitude Reprise’ but…

Bass Player: Jon Poole 2012 saw the release of the fourth album by UK Prog band, ‘Lifesigns’. The album is called ‘Altitude’ Jon Poole is a multi-instrumentalist (Bass, Guitar, Keys and Drums) and singer/songwriter in his own right. Jon started playing guitar when he was eleven and has maintained a music fan/anorak attitude to all…

Bass Player: Al Di Meola A full transcription of the Anthony Jackson bass parts for the complete 1978 Al Di Meola album, ‘Casino’. The pdf features all the tracks off the album (bar the guitar only ‘Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars’ in the order in which they appeared on the original recording so you can…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson A final chart from the 1978 Al Di Meola album, ‘Casino’, this is a full transcription of the Anthony Jackson bass part to the Chick Corea tune, ‘Señor Mouse’. Some very challenging reading here. The whole chart is in 16th notes and there are two solo sections that are improvised so…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson King of the Big Six, Anthony Jackson was Al Di Meola’s first call bass player for a long time in the 1970s and 80s and it was during this era that Jackson played on several of the guitarist’s classic albums. One of the strongest of these was the 1978 album, ‘Casino’…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson Way back in 1978, six string basses were rarely seen and it was Anthony Jackson who was pioneering this extended range instrument. Referring to it as a Contrabass Guitar, Jackson worked with luthier’s carl Thompson and Vinny Fodera on developing these instruments. He is still playing a Fodera bass today and…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin This is the complete bass performance, including the solo, from the tune ‘Johnny Joker’ from the 1997 Jeff Berlin CD ‘Taking Notes’. The interesting thing about this transcription is that the harmony slips back and forth between keys a semi tone apart so the tune is impossible to bust but, when…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin From the 2009 Jeff Berlin CD, this is the bass part for the tune ‘Reggae Ricardo’. Not quite sure where the Reggae reference comes in but that’s Art for you. The chart is not entirely complete as there are a couple of long solo sections including the Mike Stern solo where…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin A massively influential album for guitarists and bass players alike, Allan Holdsworth’s 1983 EP (we never got why a six track album was called an EP but there you are) ‘Road Games’ featured Jeff Berlin alongside his mentor Jack Bruce (appearing on this album as a vocalist (on the tracks ‘Was…