Bass Player: Jack Bruce Another short transcription from Jack’s 1969 album, ‘Songs For A Tailor’, this is the tune ‘Boston Ball Game 1967’. The chart is essentially a one bar riff in 12:8 that goes up a fourth and resolves with a 3:4 bar. A simple idea that is all about the arrangement but, from…

Bass Player: Mark Egan Mark Egan learned his craft at the feet of Jaco Pastorius and first found international renown as part of the original line-up of the Pat Metheny Group. He has also performed as part of the band Elements and has recorded his own albums as leader. Other notable appearances have included Mark…

Bass Player: Martin Briley Martin Steven Briley (born 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist. He was born in London and has recorded with and written for a variety of well-known musicians, as well as releasing several solo albums. Briley began playing and writing music when he was ten years old. Arthur Brown, of The Crazy World of…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson Another monster performance from the King of the Big Six, Anthony Jackson. Not only is Jackson one of the most accomplished and influential six-string bass players, he was enormously important figure in the development of the modern six string bass, or as he calls it ‘contrabass guitar’. Jackson reportedly said; ‘Why…

Bass Player: Martin Brierley Another tune from the 1975 Greenslade album, ‘Time And Tide’. The track “Gangsters” was used as the theme music for the BBC TV series of the same name. Having written the theme in 1974 for a one-off programme “Gangsters”, in 1976 Dave Greenslade wrote lyrics for the tune. This version was…

Bass Player: Martin Brierley Another tune from the 1975 Greenslade album, ‘Time and Tide’.  This was the fourth studio album by the band and the only recording they did with Brierley on bass. The massive sounding bass in question is reportedly a Rickenbacker similar to the one with which Chris Squire achieved his iconic sound…

Bass Player: Dave Pegg Dave Pegg (born 2 November 1947) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer although he is known primarily as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the UK folk institution, Fairport Convention but has been bassist with a number of other Folk and Rock groups including Jethro Tull and has…

Bass Player: Jaco Pastorius Pat Metheny already had something of a career playing alongside Mick Goodrick with Gary Burton’s band before his first release as a solo artist on the ECM label. The album was also one of the earlyest recordings in the career of legendary bassist John Francis Pastorius III aka. Jaco Pastorius. The…

Bass Player: Kevin Fitzgerald/Mac Hines Another one from the Panoply pad that Bilbo is preparing. The material was written and performed by Suffolk based guitarist/composer Kevin Fitzgerald for his historically studio based project ‘Panoply’ but Kevin is looking to perform the music live and Bilbo has the bass chair.

Bass Player: Kevin Fitzgerald/Mac Hines Another tune from the pad BIlbo is preparing for the live gigs being proposed by Suffolk guitarist/composer Kevin Fitzgerald and his studio project ‘Panoply’. This is another tune from the 2019 album, ‘Transcript’.