Geddy Lee – Bass I went to do this one just to appease by autistic tendency and so I would have another ‘complete album’ option. It’s actually a bloody roast. It’s all playable once you get it under your fingers but this is pure James Jamerson sixteenth note grooving. Great fun once you have got…

Geddy Lee – Bass My first Rush album. This is a great little song and a tasty little bass line. Not massively difficult to play but the tempo makes some of the reading feel like it is edging into panic. What comes over when you are transcribing this stuff is the interesting approach that Lee…

Nick Beggs – Bass The British bassist, Stick player and songwriter has a footprint that’s stamped across a wide range of genres including progressive rock, pop, Celtic, funk, and soul. Collectively, his own band and project releases have sold more than four million copies. He’s the prime architect of Kajagoogoo, a synth-pop band that catapulted…

Tony Levin – Bass A Talkbass user asked if I could post some Tony Levin (I couldn’t believe I hadn’t already) so I looked for a Levin discography to see what he had done (I was never going to do ‘Sledgehammer – there are a million versions of that out there already). I also wanted…

Ruben Rodriguez – Bass I have to say that I had heard of the book by Kazuo Ishiguro before I heard of the song but the book was named after the song so I guess that’s how culture works! The tune is performed on this version as a slow bossa nova and I present here…

Dave LaRue – Bass Dave LaRue is an American bass player who performed with the Dixie Dregs from 1988 to 2017 and with guitarist Steve Morse’s Band since 1989. He also has worked with Dream Theater’s John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Derek Sherinian and Jordan Rudess. He plays Music Man basses, among them the “Sterling” and “StingRay 5…

John Patitucci – Bass Another album that sneaked past me was the 2019 solo bass album, ‘Soul Of The Bass’. I love solo double bass albums. They are the coolest thing on the planet and as rare as hen’s teeth. I am still absorbing this one but Patitucci sounds so soulful on the double bass…

Anthony Jackson – Bass This is just a head chart. We all know that AJ almost never solos (there are some interesting things on-line where he has succumbed to the temptation (and the offer of the space by certain Asian pianists) but he does like a unison line. This is a testy little head from…

Ray Brown – Bass Until I researched the matter for this post, I hadn’t realised how prolific Ray Brown was. Did you know he has recorded 69 albums as a leader/co=leader? I know him primarily as THE bass player for a significant part of the history of the Oscar Peterson Trio (Brown recorded no less…

Martin Turner – Bass I actually bought that edition of Beat Instrumental when it was published. That’s brought back some memories. It was a great magazine back in the day. I always wanted to like Wishbone Ash and there are definitely some tracks of theirs that I liked but they weren’t really heavy enough for…