Rob Palmer – Bass Something a bit different today. I was playing through a transcription the other day (not one of mine) and recognised that I was not ‘hearing’ triplets naturally when the third of the three notes was not played within the line. So, in the spirit of 400 years of music tradition, I…

Phil Kuehn – Bass Philip Kuehn is an accomplished bassist, arranger, composer, audio producer, and educator whose career spans over two decades across the concert stage, recording studio, and classroom. He has performed with world-renowned artistsincluding Quincy Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste, Harry Connick Jr., Take 6, Branford Marsalis, Cyrille Aimée, Anthony Hamilton, Roy Hargrove,…

Geddy Lee – Bass I waver but I often think that ‘Permanent Waves’ is my favourite Rush album but I think this may be as much nostalgia as objective truth. I bought this piece of vinyl the day it come out in 1980 and still love every second of it. This track ‘Natural Science’ is…

Gary Willis – Bass With a career spanning more than 50 years, Gary Willis has released 5 solo CD’s, 10 as co-leader of Tribal Tech and has been a part of a multitude of other projects including playing alongside Wayne Shorter, Allan Holdsworth, Hubert Laws and many others. His own works include legends Dennis Chambers,…

Renaud Garcia-Fons – Bass Garcia Fons’s bas are the Jean Auray 5-string Master and Fly Auray models made by luthier Jean Auray. His bows are by Augagneur-Bergeron, Henry Guerra. Strings: C high Pirastro flat chromesteel / G D A Thomastik infeld Spirocore Solo / E Thomastik infeld Spirocore Weich. He favours Pop’s rosin and, amplification-wise, it’s a…

Pat Metheny? – Bass I always assumes it is one of the orchestral players on bass on this tune but the discography says that Metheny played all of the instruments. I am confident that is not actually literally true as there is an orchestra on there. Or is it sampled? I have no idea and…

Eric Revis – Bass I saw this quartet at Ronnie Scotts in the early 2000s and what a roast. Nevertheless, there are so many examples in the band’s discography of exquisite ballad playing and there is so much to credit them for in their ‘slow grooves’. This tune is called ‘The Ruby And The Pearl’…

Jaco Pastorius – Bass I first heard this tune on the Jaco Pastorius ‘Modern Electric Bass’ video and looked at it at the time. I got the gist of it reasonably quickly and have played it a thousand times at gigs and jam sessions as a younger player but I consciously left it alone for…

Aston “Family Man” Barrett – Bass Aston Francis Barrett, (22 November 1946 – 3 February 2024), often called “Family Man” or “Fams” for short, was a Jamaican musician. He was best known as the bass-guitar bandleader of Bob Marley and The Wailers, as well as co-producer of the albums, and the man in charge of the overall…

Kiyoshi Kitagawa – Bass Kiyoshi Kitagawa (born December 5, 1958, in Osaka) is a Japanese-American jazz double-bassist. Kitagawa first played bass guitar, and was in a rock band as a high school student. He switched to double bass while a student at Kansei Gakuin Daigaku, and played in the 1980s with Sadayasu Fuji and Takashi Furuya. In October 1988, he immigrated to the…