Graeme Murray – Bass A nostalgia trip for me, this time. I was speaking to my brother via WhatsApp and he shared that he was listening to the 1984 Pallas album, ‘The Sentinel’ which I hadn’t heard for probably 30 years. I looked it up on YouTube and had a listen and this one caught…

Dave Brown – Bass Well, it had to be done. Three versions of the same song – all different in their own ways. This is probably the one that most of us have heard first and the easiest one to read and play. From the 1970 Santana album, ‘Abraxas’, Dave Brown’s bass part for the…

Jay Anderson – Bass Bassist/composer Jay Anderson is among the most versatile and respected jazz artists performing today. Born in Southern California, Anderson began playing acoustic bass at the age of twelve. Throughout junior high, high school, and college, Anderson won numerous awards for excellence in both Jazz and Classical Music. One week after receiving…

Chris Thomas – Bass Grammy nominated, Christopher Thomas was born in 1970 in St. Louis, Missouri. Although he’s the only musician in his family, he took to music as if he were a born legacy. His musical venture began with the violin, then quickly gravitated towards the cello and finally settling with the double bass at age…

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,…

Dave Holland – Bass I struggled with this album when it came out – a bit too ‘electric’ for me but I have learned to trust my favourite artists and, sure enough, it was there when I was ready to hear it. I was knocking around with a guitar player friend of mine, Mike Spearman,…

Jimmy Haslip – Bass Born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, Spanish was Haslip’s first language and he learned to speak English in kindergarten. Haslip moved to Huntington, New York when he was four years old. At age seven, he began playing drums and then moved onto other instruments such as trumpet and tuba until…

Jeff berlin – Bass Another one of the Jeff berlin parts from a Kazumi Watanabe tune, this one from the 2013 ‘Spinning Globe’ album that featured Virgil Donati on drums. It is a really strange piece with some odd stuff happening but there isn’t much in the way of shredding so you are in with…

Matt Brewer – Bass Matt Brewer was born in Oklahoma City and grew up in Albuquerque NM, surrounded by a family of musicians and artists. Matt fell in love with the bass at age 10 and began a lifelong study of music. He graduated high school from the Interlochen Arts Academy, and then went on…

John Paul Jones – Bass John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin; 3 January 1946) is an English musician and record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. He was a session musician and arranger when he formed the band with Jimmy Page in 1968. Jones developed a solo career after drummer John Bonham died…