Carlos Henriquez – Bass What I love about the Marsalis stable of bassists is that they are all monster players but keep their chops under control in favour of musicality. Bob Hurst, Reginald Veal, Ben Wolfe – they all have chops to die for but they only appear when the music calls for it. This…

Dave Holland – Bass Dave Holland has produced some great solo albums over the years; ‘Emerald Tears’, ‘Life Cycle’ (mostly cello) and ‘One’s All’. The performances are generally very difficult to transcribe and call for a lot of liberties to be taken in the recording. This tune is no exception. ‘Reminiscence’ is a Holland composition…

Gary Willis – Bass Another Willis penned track from the 1987 Tribal Tech album, ‘Dr. Hee’. This one has a bass part that is double by a synth to help create the ominousness that the composition warrants. I have left a lot of the ‘drone’ sections vague as pinning down every note is challenging when…

Gary Willis – Bass Another strong album from the Tribal Tech ensemble (albeit with one of the worst album covers ever!), this is the complete Gary Willis bass part from the tune ‘Rituals’ that closes the band’s 1990 album , ‘Nomad’. This is not a typical Willis part chock full of ghost notes, it is…

Dave Holland – Bass Another one from my main man – I have been listening to this guy for decades. This one is from a lesser known album Holland did with Chilean singer Claudia Acuna. The tune is the standard ‘Nature Boy’ but the arrangement is really interesting – you really cannot phone this one…

Wally Lowe – Bass I loved this band back then and this was one of their best albums. I think this track was a ‘bonus track’ on a later release and did not feature on the original album (it may have been a B-side to a single?). Anyway, it is here as the result of…

Jasper Høiby – Bass Høiby started to play the double bass in Denmark before he moved to the UK in 2001 to study at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, where he got into the London jazz scene. His time at the Academy led to membership of the Loop Collective, where he later collaborated…

Jimmy Johnson – Bass Allan Holdsworth has played with some great bassists in his time and I was a massive fan of his trio with Jeff Berlin but, when he brought on board Flim Johnson, I had great expectations because I had already been a fan of Johnson through his work on the first three…

Gary Willis – Bass These are such strong bass parts. The first two Tribal tech albums were really important for me at the time they came out and it is wonderful to be able to revisit them with the new technology of MOISES and Transcribe! The detail is exquisite and there is so much to…

Carlos Henriquez – Bass Another from the Marsalils stable, the tune ‘Feeling Of Jazz’ was a Diane Reeves features vocal tune from the 2004 Wynton Marsalis album, ‘The Magic Hour’. This ol’ New Orleans stuff is great. Henriquez plays some great down home bass at a tempo that most of us will deal with reasonably…