Mike Rutherford – Bass Another from the Genesis songbook, this is the tune ‘Mad Man Moon’ from the 1976 Genesis album, ‘A Trick Of The Tail’. Some nice proggy moments here – sections in 7:8 with odd bars inserted here and there to screw around with any fool who wants to transcribe it.

Geddy Lee – Bass Wine, Baseballs and basses. Well, a man needs a hobby. From the first album, Rush (it seems odd writing ‘Lifeson/Lee’ in the composer box instead of Lee/Lifeson and the new guy’). This was the line-up with John Rutsey on drums, the world’s unluckiest diabetic! The tune is ‘Finding My Way’. The…

Nico Assumpção – Bass Born Antônio Álvaro Assumpção Neto in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1954. His father was a professional bass player, but Nico debuted in music by playing the acoustic guitar at the age of 10, having classes with Paulinho Nogueira. He changed to bass at 16, to fill in the void in a schoolmate’s band. At age of…

Robert Hurst – Bass Hurst played guitar early in his career before concentrating on bass. He worked with Out of the Blue in 1985 and also did work with musicians such as Tony Williams, Mulgrew Miller, Harry Connick Jr., Geri Allen, Russell Malone, and Steve Coleman. From 1986 to 1991 Hurst played in Wynton Marsalis’s ensemble, and played with Branford Marsalis in the early 1990s. He…

Neil Stubenhaus – Bass Like Jaco and Mark King, Stubenhaus started his musical training playing drums and switched to bass guitar at the age of 12. In one of his early bands, The Neighbourhood in 1969, he played with future Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent, with whom he played again in 1974 in Little Anthony and the Imperials. He…

Justin Chancellor – Bass Justin Gunnar Walter Chancellor (born 19 November 1971) is an English musician, best known as the bassist for band Tool, a position he has held since 1995. Prior to joining Tool, he played in a band called Peach. After settling in the US, along with his engagement in his musical projects, he and his wife…

Abraham Laboriel – Bass A special request from a website user, I realised I hadn’t done any Abraham Laboriel transcriptions and then, having done this one, I remembered why. Laboriel is a profoundly idiosyncratic player and it is very hard to get some of what he does on paper. I have similar problems with Percy…

Anthony Jackson – Bass This one caught me ear a while back but I wasn’t ready to try it but I came back to it a few days ago and did the Moises thing and there is was in all it’s glory. These Camilo/Jackson grooves sound impossible but, actually, with a little practice and attention…

Jonas Westergaard – Bass Westergaard, who comes from Copenhagen, studied at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory. Since the 1990s, he has worked in the Danish and German jazz and improvisation scene with Christopher Dell, Benjamin Koppel, Christian Lillinger, Henrik Walsdorff, Marc Schmolling, the trio Spoom (with Ronny Graupe and Christian Lillinger, Michael Wollny and the formations Delirium (with Mikko Innanen, among others)…

Felix Pastorius – Bass It takes a certain amount of courage to take up an instrument that your father was responsible for revolutionising but he did and he has made a noise all of his own. This is the Felix Pastorius bass part for the Bob Mintzer tune ‘I Knew His Father’ from the 2013…