Bass Player: Tony Reeves Another transcription from the 1973 Greenslade album, ‘Bedside Manners Are Extra’, this one features Tony Reeves’ bass part for the tune ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’. Some real reading challenges here in that Reeves plays phrases made up of eight notes but broken into threes rather than the more conventional fours or twos. This…

Bass Player: Tony Reeves From the 1973 Greenslade album, ‘Bedside Manners Are Extra’, the transcription features Tony Reeves’ bass parts from the title track. Fairly easy to read but there are a few bars of 7:8 and 9:8 and a couple of fills that may test your reading chops.

Bass Player: Chris Wood Wood was raised in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied jazz and classical music. He attended the New England Conservatory of Music in 1989. His teachers included Geri Allen, Dave Holland and Bob Moses. Reducing his classes, he accompanied Moses and John Medeski as sidemen for a tour, then played with them in New…

Bass Player: Dave Holland Form the 2006 Dave Holland Quintet album ‘Critical Mass’, this is a transcription of the head and first (trombone) solo from the tune ‘Easy Did It’. It is a slow, somewhat funky tune which alternates between 3:4 and 5:4. Some interesting compositional devices are incorporated into the piece and it is…

Bass Player: Jerry Watts Since arriving in Los Angeles, bassist Jerry Watts Jr. has worked with the best of the best – a truly eclectic mix of artists at the highest levels of pop, rock, jazz, world beat, and groove musics of every description. Watts has appeared on hundreds of albums, with 3 GRAMMY® wins…

Bass Player: Dave Holland Another transcription from the 1985 Dave Holland Quintet album, ‘Seeds Of Time’. This tune is a simple duet between Holland and percussionist Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith. Smith is playing a weird combination of woodblocks and bell like percussion (cow bells/agogos?). The main bass part is a one bar riff of rapidly executed…

Bass Player: Dave Holland The 1980s was a rich period for bass player Dave Hoiland who produced a series of incredibly fresh sounding albums for the ECM record label durng this period. Starting with the ‘Jumpin’ In’ and followed by ‘Seeds Of Time’ and ‘The Razor’s Edge’, these three quintet albums featured Holland alongside saxophonist…

Bass Player: Larry Klein Bass players gravitate towards Joni Mitchell primarily because of the contributions that Jaco Pastorius made to, amongst others, the albums Hejira, Mingus and Shadows and Light. Those who continued to follow Mitchell beyond the ‘Jaco’ years will come across Larry Klein, a bass player, producer and songwriter with a CV that…

Bass Player: Dave Holland Another tune from the 1988 ECM album that Holland did with drummer Jack DeJohnette and saxophonist Steve Coleman, ‘Triplicate’. The transcription is the complete Dave Holland bass part for the tune ‘African Lullaby’. It is a simple piece in which the three musicians play parts that interweave like a fugue but…

Bass Player: Dave Holland In the late 1980s, Dave Holland recorded a trio album with his regular sazophonist, Steve Coleman, and drummer Jack DeJohnnette with whom he has played in dozens of different settings including Miles Davis. The album, ‘Triplicate’ features compositions by all three players and a couple of Jazz standards from Charlie Parker…